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• Every time a train station is revamped, we lose a place to end a grim relationship | Nell Frizzell

  19-10-2015 15:33
  
  Yes, yes, the Birmingham New Street refit is all very good, but its bleakness made it perfect for a break-up. Am I supposed to go to Euston next time? Or Crewe?Break-ups kill parks. And cafes. They lay waste to restaurants, pollute rivers; I’ve known break-ups that can destroy a whole city. When you break up with someone – lay your shrivelled heart across their knees before kicking them in the chest by saying you no longer feel the same – you never, ever want to return to the s
  
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• Eurotunnel services resume after overnight security fence breaches

  19-10-2015 13:53
  
  Freight and passenger services subject to long delays following overnight closure owing to repeated security breachesFreight and passenger services through the Channel tunnel were gradually resuming on Monday, though subject to long delays in both directions, after being suspended when the security fence in France was repeatedly breached overnight. A Eurotunnel spokesman said hundreds of people were involved in a mass break-in overnight, with some getting to the terminal and platforms as a diver
  
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• 'Traffic lights are so dictatorial' ... but are roundabouts on the way out?

  19-10-2015 08:00
  
  The UK is quietly replacing roundabouts with traffic lights. The US is doing the exact opposite. Both cite safety and traffic flow. So who is right?The world’s weirdest roundabouts – in pictures
  You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. But unlike Joni Mitchell, I’m driving in Newcastle, not Honolulu, and it’s not a parking lot that they’ve paved paradise to put up, but yet another set of traffic lights.
  Since resuming the school run last mont
  
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• Wensleydale Railway buy bridge to allow Aysgarth link

  19-10-2015 02:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo -A HERITAGE railway's ambitions plans to extend deep into the Yorkshire Dales have taken another step forward with the purchase of a second-hand bridge.
  
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• Virgin calls for end of rail franchise monopoly Subscription

  19-10-2015 02:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - Britains biggest train operator has called for a radical shake-up of the system of rail franchising to introduce competition on services between London and Edinburgh.
  
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• Virgin and Stagecoach call for rail franchises to be scrapped on inter-city routes to improve competition

  19-10-2015 02:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Post - SIR RICHARD Bransons Virgin and Stagecoach have called for rail franchises to be scrapped on inter-city routes and replaced by a licensing system.The companies claim that a new system of licensing rail operators and allowing them to compete directly on inter-city routes would boost competition and give a better deal to customers and taxpayers.
  
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• VIDEO: Council car park run without permission

  19-10-2015 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A car park being run by Belfast City Council for staff is running without planning permission.
  
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• Transport Secretary and East Midlands Trains mark new era for customers as £13 million investment programme gets underway

  19-10-2015 02:00 via gov.uk
  
  Department for Transport - Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin today marked the first day of East Midlands Trains extended franchise, joining Neil Micklethwaite, EMT Customer Experience and Commercial Director and the team at Derby station to despatch the 08:01 hours service to London.
  
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• Tories bid to block Scottish MPs from key vote on third runway at Heathrow

  19-10-2015 02:00 via thenational.scot
  
  Other News Sources - THE Tories plans to introduce English votes for English laws (Evel) descended even further in farce yesterday, as Scottish MPs have criticised a senior
  
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• Third runway at Heathrow would stifle competition

  19-10-2015 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Herald - A THIRD runway at Heathrow would "stifle competition" and leave Scotland "feeding a steroid-enhanced" hub at the expense of its own growth, ...
  
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• Revealed: 46 of

  19-10-2015 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Herald - HALF of Scots motorists who lost their driving licence last year because they were at risk of suffering a potentially deadly blackout at the wheel were back on the road within months.
  
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• Pensioners' daytrip goes wrong as they end up on train 200 miles from home

  19-10-2015 02:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph - Mollie Muetzel and friend Kathleen Lowndes, celebrating their 90th birthdays, mistakenly board the wrong rush hour train
  
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• Nine-week A55 tunnel closures begin

  19-10-2015 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Nightly closures of a tunnel on one of Wales' busiest commuter routes begins as new lighting is installed as part of a £42m upgrade.
  
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• MP petitions for footbridge over Aire Valley Trunk Road

  19-10-2015 02:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus -A PETITION to connect two communities divided by the Aire Valley Trunk Road has been started by Keighley's MP.
  
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• Monarch Airlines flight to Malaga turns back to Manchester with part of the WING hanging off

  19-10-2015 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - The pilot reportedly discovered that part of the wing had come loose - as well as a problem with the cabin pressure - somewhere near Gloucester, and ultimately opted to turn back.
  
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• Midlands Connect transport group could get new powers and funding to help create 'Engine for Growth'

  19-10-2015 02:00 via birminghampost.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Post - Project to improve links between Birmingham and Nottingham could be given formal powers in Government devolution bill
  
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• Irish Rail holds its track on bike ban Subscription

  19-10-2015 02:00 via thesundaytimes.co.uk
  Times Online - ITS the end of the line for bicycles on trains during rush hour, with Irish Rail promising to enforce a ban that has been widely flouted. From tomorrow, the company says no bikes will be allowed on services into or out of Dublins Heuston station during peak times. Enforcement will be extended nationwide.
  
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• Heathrow third runway: civil service chief 'warned ministers not to comment'

  19-10-2015 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Sir Jeremy Heywoods intervention appears to reflect concerns that ministers remarks could make final decision vulnerable to legal challenge
  
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• Heathrow? Gatwick? No, we need a new airport

  19-10-2015 02:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Independent - Stewart Wingate , chief executive of Gatwick Airport, says Gatwick has never breached legal air-quality limits, in contrast to Heathrow, and so should be allowed to expand without fruitless debate. And he says a new runway at Heathrow will only generate millions of additional vehicle journeys
  
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• Heathrow Airport expansion: A 'toxic dilemma for ministers

  19-10-2015 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - "Toxic" is how one minister described the government's dilemma over Heathrow.
  
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• Great Western rail fiasco looms over delays to electrified line Subscription

  19-10-2015 02:00 via thesundaytimes.co.uk
  Times Online - WHITEHALL could be forced to alter a multibillion-pound order for new electric trains because the tracks between London and South Wales will not be ready to run them.
  
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• Glider in near-miss with 340mph RAF planes over East Coast Main Line

  19-10-2015 02:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo -RAF student and tutor pilots flew in formation within 100ft of a glider while practising an emergency manoeuvre almost directly above the East Coast Main Line.
  
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• Ealing scoop Transport Local Authority of the Year award

  19-10-2015 02:00 via getwestlondon.co.uk
  
  Get West London - At a Transport Times award ceremony, the authority won the accolade for promoting "safety and sustainable travel"
  
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• Conference in York aims to secure future of public transport in the region

  19-10-2015 02:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  The York Press -PUBLIC transport across the north of England will be in the spotlight at a major conference in York this week.
  
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• Changes will be made to difficult Harbour Crossroads junction

  19-10-2015 02:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -FRUSTRATED motorists say they are relieved that long-awaited changes to a controversial junction are being made.
  
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• BBT London Forum: Anger at speed of Lufthansa fee roll out

  19-10-2015 02:00 via buyingbusinesstravel.com
  Aviation Industry- Buyers discuss controversial GDS fee
  
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• BA chairman opens £3.3m hangar for aerospace degree

  19-10-2015 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The British Airways chairman is opening a £3.3m extension to a university's aerospace centre later.
  
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• American investment firm RiverOak could turn to the courts if Manston CPO deal with Thanet council rejected

  19-10-2015 02:00 via kentonline.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The company hoping to force a buyout of Manston airport says it won't give up the fight - even if council rejects CPO deal
  
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• Air France to make some job cuts in 2016, rest negotiable: CEO

  19-10-2015 02:00 via topix.com
  
  Aviation Industry- The job cuts in 2016 will be voluntary redundancies and job losses in 2017 can be avoided if ongoing talks with unions lead to an agreement on alternative savings measures by the beginning of next year, Alexandre de Juniac said in a broadcast interview.
  
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