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MSPs' green light for workplace parking levy
Plans for a tax on workplace parking spaces are part of a transport bill expected to be passed at Holyrood.
Dozens of drivers a day stranded on smart motorways [Subscription]
Dozens of drivers break down and are left stranded each day in fast-moving lanes of “smart” motorways that have no hard shoulders. Research by Highways England has shown that 19,316 vehicles stopped in flowing traffic on motorway “live lanes” in 2017 and last year, equivalent to more than 26 a day.
£15 million scheme to develop Waverley capacity
Scottish Government has approved a £15 million programme of preliminary work to increase capacity on the approaches to Edinburgh Waverley.
Thursday, 10 October 2019
BBC News
- Diamond buses at Tividale depot set on fire in 'arson attack'It comes months after a deliberate fire in which £200,000 worth of damage was caused.
- Wrightbus fate to be known in hours - Ian Paisley MPEnglish industrialist Jo Bamford is understood to have made a bid for the Ballymena-based company.
Financial Times
- How my iPhone landed me with a £476 fine and made me a criminalWhen my phone died I couldn't prove that I had bought a bus ticket with Apple Pay
Times Online
- JCB chairman’s son Jo Bamford digs Wrightbus out of a hole [Subscription]Jo Bamford, son of Lord Bamford, the JCB diggers billionaire, has emerged as the likely buyer of Wrightbus, which fell into administration last month.
Belfast Telegraph
- Wrightbus: Ian Paisley says 'bell now tolls for the landlord' to finalise dealDUP MP Ian Paisley has said a deal to save Wrightbus has been agreed by the banks and administrators, and now
Edinburgh Evening News
- Edinburgh bus wars start again as Lothian boosts services to West LothianBUS wars are set to return after Lothian Buses announced new, improved and re-routed services in West Lothian, traditionally the territory of rivals First Group.
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