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Saturday, 12 May 2018

BBC News

• Bridgend council to fine school drop-off bad parkersA car will patrol schools, finding drivers who have parked in bus stops or on double yellow lines.
• Manchester City Council pays back £23,000 bus lane finesManchester council sent out penalty tickets too late because of an administrative error.
• London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans TfL 'junk food' advert banMayor Sadiq Khan says a ban could tackle the
• London's moped crime hotspots revealed: Check your areaHigh car insurance and the boom in delivery services such as Deliveroo have increased the number of mopeds.
• Skipness death crash pilot was not qualified for conditionsAnthony Woodward and Robert Archer, both from Surrey, died when their plane crashed in thick fog off Skipness.
• Build all navy ships in UK, says Corbyn ahead of Govan visitThere has been speculation a £1bn contract for three new Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ships could go abroad.
• Glasgow bus crash passengers to sue operatorSeven passengers involved in the crash near the Clydeside Expressway in Glasgow plan to sue First Bus.
• Didi Chuxing suspends Hitch after passenger death

Times Online

• Banning junk food ads is nutriprejudice, Khan told (Subscription)One in ten advertisements on London transport is for junk food and faces a ban because of an obesity “time bomb”, Sadiq Khan said yesterday.
• New captain required as Air France loses height (Subscription)The board of Air France, the strike-hit airline, came under pressure to appoint a new chief executive quickly as sales fell sharply last month.
• Who will win the race for a driverless car? (Subscription)It has been the stuff of science fiction for decades but in just a few years British motorists could finally be sitting behind the dashboard of a driverless car.
• Jim Meade to take the reins at Irish Rail (Subscription)Irish Rail has appointed Jim Meade, its director of train operations, as its new chief executive.
• Passengers buy tickets for axed train services (Subscription)Train companies are failing to tell passengers that they have bought tickets on services that are no longer running.
• £250m bypass will destroy woodland (Subscription)A four-mile bypass will be built partly in the South Downs National Park under a plan that conservation groups fear will set a precedent for development in other protected areas.

City AM

• Homeowners near Crossrail 2 stations could be hit by new taxPeople living near Crossrail 2 stations could be hit by a new tax, under proposals being considered by Transport for London (TfL).

Mail Online

• Fury as new £1billion tunnel under the Thames finally gets the green light after 13 years The Silvertown Tunnel was first proposed in 2005 to help ease the burden on the Blackwall Tunnel, and was backed by Boris Johnson in 2008 and his successor as London Mayor, Sadiq Khan.
• Families accuse steam railway of trying to grab their farm land for £7million project  Locals are trying to prevent a heritage railway line being extended by two miles from Bodiam to Robertsbridge amid accusations of bullying and environmental vandalism.
• Corbyn poses with posters that have spelling blunders During a photo opportunity on stage, eagle-eyed observers noticed that posters waved by Labour activists behind him said 'I'm a shipbuliding apprentice' instead of 'shipbuilding'.

This is Money

• The first 5 mins of car journeys expose us to high levels of pollution Emissions systems that are built into cars to capture harmful pollution take around 5 minutes to activate, resulting in twice as much pollution being produced than normal.
• Road safety group dubs electric cars a 'stealthy menace' The EU will introduce new rules that will demand that all manufacturers add low-speed alerting sounders to their new electric powered vehicles from 2019. But Steer Safe wants it to be sooner.
• Motorists are 22 per cent more likely to crash on a Friday Britons drive 13 per cent more journeys on a Friday, when they are 3 per cent longer too, according to a new report.

Bolton News

• Full train service in Bolton will not start until December FULL service on the trains will not return until December it has been revealed.The electrification upgrades to the Bolton lines have caused disruption and the project has been delayed by two years.
• More train strike actionUNION bosses have confirmed another round of train strikes will take place later this month.

London Evening Standard

• Luton airport workers vote to go on strike during May bank holidayHolidaymakers face severe disruption over the May Bank Holiday weekend after it was announced that staff at Luton airport are set to go on strike.

Northern Echo

• £1 million a month - The cost of potholes to drivers and insurers POTHOLES are costing drivers and insurers at least £1 million a month in total due to massive car repair bills, according to estimates from the AA.
• 'Very interested' airport operator in talks with Mayor over running Durham Tees ValleyA KEY election pledge of the Tees Valley Mayor to take an airport into public ownership is now another step closer to becoming reality.
• Strike-hit Northern 'should be stripped' of franchise, MPs sayMPs have called on the Government to consider stripping transport giant Arriva of the Northern rail franchise.
• Fears over village road left in dark CONCERNS have been raised about plans to remove village street lights.
• Seven cars damaged by '1.5 metre' pothole in 40 minutes – but council won't reimburse drivers AT least seven cars were damaged in just 40 minutes by a large pothole – but a council is refusing to reimburse the drivers.

The York Press

• Northern welcome for digital rail revolutionPLANS for a massive digital modernisation of the Transpennine railway route through York has been welcomed by Transport for the North, a regional partnership of civic and business leaders.
• Cycle marking event at hospital CYCLISTS can have their bikes and equipment marked for free at an event in Harrogate next week.

Bucks Free Press

• Village road closed for the foreseeable future amid HS2 concerns A village road looks set to be closed for the foreseeable future amid concern from the community about the effect HS2 will have on residents living there.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Urgent A12 bridge repairs to bring four months of road closures in ColchesterSections of road around the A12 near Colchester are set to close for four months while urgent repairs are carried out – including to a bridge, which suffered “marked deterioration”.

Other Regional Press

• 10 weeks of roads misery in Walcot as potholes are repaired WALCOT residents will face 10 weeks of disruption as a pothole-ridden road is reconstructed.
• Potholes costing drivers and insurers '£1m a month' in car repair bills POTHOLES are costing drivers and insurers at least £1 million a month in total due to massive car repair bills, according to estimates from the AA.
• COLUMN: On Yer Bike - Are electric bikes cheating?STEVE Unwin, Cyclox member and a volunteer with Wheels for All Oxford and Broken Spoke Co-op, gave an inspiring talk about electric bikes to a packed house at one of Cyclox’s regular meetings.
• New ‘Uber for buses’ could pick you up from home in under 10 minutes AN ‘UBER’ for buses’ service will be launched to ease the strain of commuting to work in the east of the city.
• City port has key role in Brexit says maritime ministerSOUTHAMPTON is in a prime position to make the most of the benefits after the UK leaves the EU according to the maritime minister as she visits the city’s port.
• Minister pays visit to port of Southampton as city 'primed to take advantage' of BrexitMARITIME minister Nusrat Ghani greeted staff at the Port of Southampton on her visit to the city.

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• Silvertown Tunnel gets green light from Grayling A Development Consent Order has been granted to allow construction of a new twin-bore road tunnel under the River Thames in east London.Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling has approved...
• Final consultation round on updated WRAtH proposal Network Rail has begun a new round of consultation on the western rail link to Heathrow Airport as it prepares to apply for a Development Consent Order.After consultations on the scheme in 2015 and...