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• Man's death rescuing brother from tube track an accident

  26-10-2015 16:05
  
  Nicholas Mann’s fatal fall in front of Northern line train to rescue brother Robert ‘accidental’, rules coronerThe death of a man fatally struck by a tube train as he tried to rescue his brother from the track was an accident, a coroner in London has ruled.Nicholas Mann, 35, was travelling back from a heavy metal gig just after midnight with his brother Robert, 32, in March, when he was hit by a southbound Northern line train and suffered a massive head injury at Old Street sta
  
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• Network Rail warns against taking selfies on tracks – video

  26-10-2015 15:30
  
  CCTV issued by Network Rail captures incidents of dangerous behaviour on a rural railway crossing in Derbyshire. Crossing users are seen taking selfies and lying on the track at Matlock Bath station. Network Rail published the footage in an effort to persuade people to use crossings safely
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• WestJet eyes transatlantic market

  26-10-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Plan follows launch of service to Londons Gatwick airport
  
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• VW and the never-ending cycle of corporate scandals

  26-10-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - VW and the never-ending cycle of corporate scandals
  
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• Transport bosses to lobby for extra Lincolnshire trains in 2016

  26-10-2015 01:00 via lincolnshireecho.co.uk
  Lincolnshire Echo - Transport chiefs will lobby for extra trains in 2016 to improve the service for rail users across Lincolnshire.East Midlands Trains currently run the county's rail transport and will do so until 2018.
  
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• Timings get a shake-up on Leeds buses

  26-10-2015 01:00 via yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Evening Post - A ROUND of bus timetable changes came into force in Leeds and the rest of West Yorkshire over the weekend.
  
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• Taxi groups to fight Uber with start-up

  26-10-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Karhoo signs up 200,000 cars as taxi operators push back against app challengers
  
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• Stations showcase cinema's lost gems

  26-10-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Forgotten films celebrating the lives of ordinary people in Manchester are being screened at some of England's biggest and busiest railway stations.
  
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• SHOCK TACTICS: 'Concerning' crash figures in Bradford prompt new hard-hitting road safety campaign

  26-10-2015 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus -CAMPAIGNERS will use shock tactics to encourage the next generation of Bradford's drivers to slow down as new figures revealed a sharp rise in collisions attended by the city's firefighters.
  
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• SEEING RED: Mystified motorists are queuing to 'let non-existent cars out from non-existent car park', says councillor

  26-10-2015 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus -THOSE in charge of delayed Apperley Bridge railway station should
  
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• Scottish MPs must have vote on Heathrow expansion, say Evel critics

  26-10-2015 01:00 via pressandjournal.co.uk
  The Press and Journal (Aberdeen) - Scottish Secretary David Mundell has been urged to bang the cabinet table to ensure Scottish MPs are not stopped from voting on Heathrow expansion.
  
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• Ryanair in

  26-10-2015 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Herald - PASSENGERS flying with Ryanair will be able to connect directly onto a long-haul flight without collecting their bags or going back through check in under groundbreaking plans for a tie-up between the budget airline and major global carriers.
  
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• 'Rethink needed' on cycle death cases

  26-10-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The way cycling deaths are treated by police and prosecutors may need to change, the former Director of Public Prosecutions tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
  
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• Railway line selfie footage released

  26-10-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - People are warned to stop taking photos while standing on railway tracks - after CCTV captured eight dangerous incidents at one level crossing.
  
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• Rail chief hopes Chiltern line will make his point Subscription

  26-10-2015 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - At 7.24 this morning a new service launches on the countrys newest bit of rail track leaving Britains newest train station.
  
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• Passengers move to the cheap seats subscription

  26-10-2015 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - Growing numbers of businessmen are ditching premium air travel in favour of cheap economy seats amid continuing fears over the state of the world economy.
  
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• Network Rails new line meets schedule

  26-10-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Marylebone to Oxford service opens on time and to budget
  
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• Network Rail changes English-only sign at Cardiff train station after complaints from Welsh language campaigners

  26-10-2015 01:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online -Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg are calling for Welsh language services to be provided as a right
  
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• Make businesses pay for new railways, says Network Rail chief Mark Carne Subscription

  26-10-2015 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - Network Rail boss calls for biggest funding shake-up since privatisation
  Councils, local businesses and train operators should be made to co-invest in major railway upgrades, according to the chief of Network Rail.
  
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• Maersk Line follows in wake of profit warnings subscription

  26-10-2015 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - AP Moeller-Maersk, the Danish conglomerate that owns the worlds biggest shipping line, capped a gloomy third-quarter season of profit warnings from global businesses by cutting its earnings expectations for the year.
  
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• Llanberis bus firm man admits ripping off Gwynedd council

  26-10-2015 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) -Darren Price, 45, was bailed for a pre-sentence report, while charges against Anne Price, 29, are to lie on file
  
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• Karhoo needs to make hoo-ha to rival Uber

  26-10-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Taxi app signs up London and New York cabs, but funding is all
  
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• John Holland-Kaye: Heathrow expansion will mean take-off for Yorkshire

  26-10-2015 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  Yorkshire Post - ITS no surprise Chancellor George Osborne was talking up the investment opportunities in Yorkshire while on his trade mission to China last month, and which preceded this weeks State Visit by President Xi Jinping.
  
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• Former Blackburn bus depot will house homeless

  26-10-2015 01:00 via lancashiretelegraph.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -SENIOR councillors have approved the framework of a deal to transform a semi-derelict former bus depot into a charity and recycling centre.
  
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• Forgotten Burnley railway line is brought to life

  26-10-2015 01:00 via burnleyexpress.net
  
  Burnley Express - Back in the 1840s there were plans to create another railway route through Burnleybut it never actually happened.
  
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• Ex-top pilot's laser pen warning as video shows dangers to aircraft from devices

  26-10-2015 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) -Dave Taylor was chief pilot for North Wales Police, and is calling for laser pens to be classed as dangerous weapons
  
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• End of the road for historic bus firm

  26-10-2015 01:00 via lep.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The century-old sight of iconic green buses run by an historic Lancashire firm has come to an end.
  
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• Derby Telegraph published 14,000 fines issued in Derby bus lane clampdown

  26-10-2015 01:00 via derbytelegraph.co.uk
  
  Derbyshire Telegraph - A CRACKDOWN on drivers misusing Derby bus lanes has seen more than 14,000 fines issued since it began at the end of January. And more than 3,600 penalty notices have been sent out in September alone after more lanes began to be monitored by CCTV, bringing the total number of lanes under scrutiny to eight. The fine for incorrectly driving in Derby bus lanes is mp;pound;60, reduced to mp;pound;30 if paid within 35 days. The council was, yesterday, unable to say how much mone
  
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• Cycle route work to start this week

  26-10-2015 01:00 via lep.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Another section of the Leyland Community Health Loop cycleway has been given the go-ahead, with work starting this week.
  
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• Council transport boss admits: 'I was ticketed for speeding - now I want others caught too'

  26-10-2015 01:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Mail -Victoria Quinn said she hoped more speeders would be clocked when cameras were brought back next year
  
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• Chiltern Railways launches rival London to Oxford service

  26-10-2015 01:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph - It is the first new rail link between the capital and a British city in more than a century
  
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• Austrian Technology in the UK

  26-10-2015 01:00 via railway-technology.com
  Other News Sources -Rhomberg Sersa is one of the main contractors involved in the modernisation of the Winchburgh Tunnel along the Edinburgh Glasgow railway line.
  
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• Angry passengers hit out at bus operators changes

  26-10-2015 01:00 via lep.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Travel to work and shops is more difficult say Stagecoach passengers in Chorley
  
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• 21 bus routes hit by Withy Grove closure after city centre manhole collapse full list of diversions

  26-10-2015 01:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Manchester Evening News -See which routes have been affected after GMP closed the road near the Printworks after a grid appeared to be sinking
  
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