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Stagecoach in reverse as founders sell 11.6m shares [subscription]
Sir Brian Souter and his sister Dame Ann Gloag, the transport tycoons who founded Stagecoach, have sold nearly 11.6 million of their shares.
Network Rail listed in Times Top 50 Employers for Women
Network Rail has today been named as one of the top 50 employers for women in Britain.
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- Covid passport app would need to be UK-wide, says Mark DrakefordWales' first minister said any NHS app to show people's vaccine status should include all UK nations.
- Toyoda Gosei: Hundreds of jobs at risk at car parts plantsToyoda Gosei, which produces parts for Toyota, Nissan, Renault and Honda, wants to leave the UK.
- 'I feel much safer on board ship than in a supermarket'It's hoped cruises around England will be able to resume in May and already demand for bookings is high.
Financial Times
- Stagecoach founders to sell shares in group they started in 1980 Brother and sister millionaires scale back holdings following pandemic hit to UK transport group
The Guardian
- Electric vehicles on world’s roads expected to increase to 145m by 2030Under existing climate policies, electric vehicles could wipe out use of 2m barrels a day of diesel and petrolThe number of electric cars, vans, trucks and buses on the world’s roads is on course to increase from 11m vehicles to 145m by the end of the decade, which could wipe out demand for millions of barrels of oil every day.A report by the International Energy Agency has found that there could be 230m electric vehicles worldwide by 2030 if governments agreed to encourage the production of enough low-carbon vehicles to stay within global climate targets. Continue reading...
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- Scottish independence-supporting bus tycoons sell off Stagecoach stake [subscription]Sir Brian Souter and Dame Ann Gloag, who grew up on council estate in Perth, rank among Scotland's richest people
Times Online
- Stagecoach in reverse as founders sell 11.6m shares [subscription]Sir Brian Souter and his sister Dame Ann Gloag, the transport tycoons who founded Stagecoach, have sold nearly 11.6 million of their shares.
- Vaccine passports won’t be ready for restart of international travel [subscription]A vaccine passport will not be ready for the restart of international travel next month despite the transport secretary claiming that the chances of a foreign holiday “look good”.
- Don’t be dazzled by metro mayors, councils do most of the work [subscription]t feels like a lifetime ago, but for election enthusiasts the period from the Brexit referendum felt like a never-ending cycle of excitement: we had two general elections, the European Parliament elections and three local elections sandwiched in between.
City AM
- Uber sees "green shoots" of recovery as recruitment spree gets into gearUber are planning to hire an additional 20,000 drivers across the UK this year as the firm sees the first The post Uber sees "green shoots" of recovery as recruitment spree gets into gear appeared first on CityAM.
Belfast Telegraph
- Aerosols overtake cars as source of smog pollutant, research suggestsHousehold aerosols – including deodorants, air fresheners and furniture polish – have overtaken cars as a source of polluting smog chemicals in the UK, research suggests.
Birmingham Post
- Space Park Leicester CEO takes senior post at Surrey Research ParkFirst part of space park in north Leicester could eventually help create and support 2,500 jobs
Bristol Live
- Rainbow crossings to appear on roads in North Somerset Rainbow crossings have been implemented successfully elsewhere in the UK - particularly in London.
- Man's anger as e-scooters 'used as pub taxi for two people'"There's a concern for safety if people are riding these things pillion"
London Evening Standard
- First increase in car production after 18 months of decline, figures showCar factories were shut for most of March 2020, so output was always going to be up, a trade body said.
Bucks Free Press
- New road scheme branded 'utterly disgraceful' by Marlow resident A six-month trial of a
Other Regional Press
- Highland train derailment was caused by signalling system faultA signalling system fault was to blame for a train being derailed at Dalwhinnie, a preliminary investigation has found.
- An early-morning train service from Oakham to London St Pancras will be replaced by a later service in May 2021An early-morning train service to London is being axed. East Midlands Railway is introducing a new timetable on May 17 which doesn't includes the 6.10am service from Oakham to London St Pancras.
- 'We're not prepared to wait for HS2' - Lib Dem mayor candidate pledges investment drive for railThe Lib Dem fighting to be West Yorkshire mayor said he is "not prepared to wait for HS2 to get built in two decades' time" if elected on May 6, pledging to lobby the Government for investment in rail.
- Rusty bridges are 'ugly' and need improving, says councillor RUSTING rail bridges in Dorchester are a disgrace to the town – and need to be improved, according to town councillors.
- 'Don't penalise motorists who visit Weymouth by car' I cannot believe the comments from Cllr Tarr (‘More cash could be squeezed out of drivers’)
Airportwatch
- Leading the charge in green transport [subscription]It has been a big week for governments making climate commitments. First, Britain promised to cut emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 from 1990 levels and, for the first time, the target was extended to cover international aviation and shipping. Then several countries said that they would cut emissions faster than expected at President Biden’s climate summit, which was held online.
New Civil Engineer
- Do we need to aim younger to plug the civil engineering skills gap?Completion of a flood wall in a small Dorset seaside village might be a minor story for most but for me it is another stage in a project that started in the early 1980s – and one that lead me down the path of engineering as a career.
- Do HS2 contractors need to take another look at Wendover tunnel option?Engineers, local councillors and politicians in both houses have raised concerns that HS2 Ltd and its contractors have failed to fully assess how to best build a 4.2km stetch of the railway in Wendover.
Rail Business Daily
- Lasting friendships as LNER’s ‘letter to a friend’ marks its first yearLondon North Eastern Railway (LNER) is celebrating the first anniversary of ‘Letter to a Friend’, an initiative which has created a vital lifeline for thousands of older people living in care homes who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
- Network Rail listed in Times Top 50 Employers for WomenNetwork Rail has today been named as one of the top 50 employers for women in Britain.
Railway Gazette
- Options to address Manchester rail congestion are ‘undeliverable’, says BurnhamUK: The process to create an interim timetable to improve the performance of train services through Manchester from May 2022 has run into difficulties, the Transport for the North board heard at its latest meeting.
- Caledonian Sleeper services return to full timetableUK: Caledonian Sleeper has confirmed that it will be restoring its full timetable from April 29, after a lengthy period of running a single daily train between London and Inverness via Edinburgh.
Other News Sources
- Greater Anglia recycles train components to help the environmentGreater Anglia is recycling and reusing components from some of its old trains which are being sent for scrap as they are replaced by brand new state-of-the-art trains.
- Have hopes to reopen railway line already hit the buffers over plans to infill bridge?Hopes to reopen the Dumfries to Stranraer railway line could already have hit the buffers.
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