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• France fights sexual violence on public transport - Yahoo News UK

  09-11-2015 20:21
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  France fights sexual violence on public transport
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  France launched an awareness campaign Monday in a bid to halt the crude comments, groping and sexual violence that women face daily on public transport. Posters went up at stations around the country with fictitious metro stops labelled with comments ...en meer »
  

• Tony Hills obituary

  09-11-2015 17:18
  
  My friend Tony Hills, who has died aged 78, was the founder of the narrow-gauge Brecon Mountain railway, a popular tourist attraction in the Brecon Beacons of south Wales.A self-taught engineer, in the 1960s Tony had become an active volunteer on the Ffestiniog railway in the Snowdonia national park of north Wales, leading the restoration of three wagons and the construction of a brake van at his home near Birmingham. Told that he could not restore a disused locomotive as a further homework proj
  
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• How are cyclists most likely to die?

  09-11-2015 14:47
  
  Nearly 90 cyclists were killed riding their bikes in England and Wales last year, but how are you most likely to come a cropper while cycling? And are you more likely to die falling off a ladder? Helen Pidd sifts through the figuresWould you have guessed that 70 people died in England and Wales in 2014 from falling off a ladder? That 15 fell off a cliff and yet just one man died falling out of a tree last year? Five women died from “pain and other conditions associated with female genital
  
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• Millions of people spend two or more hours commuting a day

  09-11-2015 11:21
  
  Study for the TUC blames house prices and creaking infrastructure for increase, which has affected women more than menThe housing crisis and lack of spending on roads and railways is leading to longer commutes for workers, a study has shown. The number of people spending more than two hours travelling to and from work every day has jumped by 72% over the past decade to more than 3 million, according to research by the TUC. The analysis also showed that the number of commuters travelling for thre
  
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• Wrexham to Chester £40 million rail upgrade delays 'unacceptable'

  09-11-2015 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) -Network Rail under fire as there is no end in sight for scheme which was due to be completed this month
  
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• What happened to passenger hovercraft?

  09-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - It's 60 years since the British inventor Christopher Cockerell demonstrated the principles of the hovercraft using a cat food tin and a vacuum cleaner. Great things were promised for this mode of transport, but it never really caught on. Why?
  
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• Volvo wedded to an electric future

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• Use rising rail profits to invest in railways call

  09-11-2015 01:00 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Post - Campaigners are calling for a massive projected windfall in train company payments to the Government to be invested in rail improvements as new TUC figures show the number of people in Yorkshire commuting for more than three hours a day has doubled over the last decade.
  
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• 'Ugly' Burton railway station needs a spruce-up, say councillors

  09-11-2015 01:00 via burtonmail.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - CALLS for improvements to Burton Railway Station have been backed by council chiefs after the town's MP Andrew Griffiths dubbed it the 'ugliest' in the UK.
  
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• Terrible Stagecoach bus service in Cambridge only on time for 60 per cent of journeys last month

  09-11-2015 01:00 via cambridge-news.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - A Cambridge resident furious with the state of the City's bus service has logged and entire month's with of chaos.
  
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• Spending review: George Osborne 'secures deals' on 30 cuts

  09-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The transport, local government and environment departments, plus the Treasury, have all agreed deals ahead of the spending review on 25 November.
  
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• Scania bets the house on gas

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• Record Scania order as City Circle to take 20 i6 coaches

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• Predictable reactions to quality contract decision; all eyes on Buses Bill

  09-11-2015 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bus and Coach.com - The first proposal to introduce a quality contract scheme, 15 years after the legislation was first published, has been rejected by a special board chaired by traffic commissioner for the north east of England Kevin Rooney.
  
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• Opponents of a "mini-Holland" cycling scheme in north-east London have been told by a High Court judge there is "no merit whatsoever" in their criticisms.

  09-11-2015 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - The £27 million project aims to improve safety and the environment in the borough of Waltham Forest, including Walthamstow village, by encouraging more walking and cycling and reducing the volume of traffic in residential areas.
  
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• No 'drama' for Airbus on A380 sales

  09-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Airbus admits that new orders at the Dubai Airshow for its slow-selling A380 are unlikely, but says new sales this year are possible.
  
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• McGills engineers receive industry accreditation at Scottish conference

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• Lufthansa to cancel 929 flights

  09-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - German airline Lufthansa says 113,000 passengers will be hit by flight cancellations on Monday amid a union walkout.
  
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• Lufthansa cancels nearly 1,000 flights as cabin crew strike

  09-11-2015 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - More than 110,000 passengers likely to be affected by industrial action at Germanys biggest airline Germanys biggest airline Lufthansa faces more aviation chaos Monday, cancelling hundreds of domestic and European flights as cabin crew said they would resume a strike in a battle over cost cuts.The stoppagepart of rolling industrial action the union threatened to continue until Fridaywas due to hit Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Munich airports on Monday, the UFO flight attendants union
  
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• Lincoln trains are overcrowded but there are NO more services allocated in new rail franchise

  09-11-2015 01:00 via lincolnshireecho.co.uk
  Lincolnshire Echo - The target of their wrath is currently a morning commuter train from Newark Northgate to Lincoln Central, where it is reported that on October 12, 169 passengers were counted getting off a single-carriage train that had 73 seats.
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover report 40 per cent UK sales increase

  09-11-2015 01:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
  Other Regional Press - Whitley-based car manufacturer says the results represent its best ever October
  
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• If Cameron really wants expansion at Heathrow, can he fend off a by-election in Richmond Park?

  09-11-2015 01:00 via conservativehome.com
  Other News Sources - The Sunday Telegraph reports that David Cameron has decided it would be politically safe to back a third runway at Heathrow, despite previously promising to block the expansion of Britains busiest airport, and that the Government is preparing to announce the next phase for airport expansion within weeks.
  
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• HS2 route tree voted nation's favourite

  09-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The Suffragette Oak in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, is voted Scotland's Tree of the Year.
  
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• Growing number of Yorkshire commuters spend more than three hours travelling to and from work

  09-11-2015 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus -THE number of commuters across Yorkshire and the Humber spending more than three hours travelling to and from work has increased by 98 per cent over the past 10 years, according to TUC analysis published today.
  
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• Green agenda dominates at Busworld Kortrijk

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• 'Ghost stations' plan on London Tube faces legal challenge

  09-11-2015 01:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Telegraph - Entrepreneur who claims he was the first to spot the potential of disused London Underground stations says he has been frozen out of bidding contest
  
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• French PM: 'No Renault-Nissan merger'

  09-11-2015 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the government does not want a merger between carmakers Renault and Nissan.
  
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• Four departments agree to meet George Osborne's cuts target

  09-11-2015 01:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Treasury, environment, transport and communities departments cede to chancellors austerity demands, but home and foreign ministries dig in
  
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• Delayed Night Tube costs 1.5m a month

  09-11-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - TfL admits hiring 500 extra staff in September for service
  
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• Delay fears for new Cambridge and Oxford railway link - spelling disaster for transport and housing

  09-11-2015 01:00 via cambridge-news.co.uk
  
  Airportwatch - An "essential" upgrade to Cambridge's creaking transport network has been plunged into doubt.
  
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• Cubbington Pear Tree voted as Woodland Trust's Tree of the Year 2015

  09-11-2015 01:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
  Other Regional Press -The ancient tree, which is under threat from HS2 rail line, voted as winner in annual contest
  
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• Criticism for Sloughs Heathrow rail link as British Airways warns Govt of boosterism

  09-11-2015 01:00 via colnbrook.info
  
  Other Regional Press - As the Slough Council backed Western Rail Link to Heathrow reaches a critical phase, British Airways has criticised the scheme for being developed in isolation and warned the Government about boosterism.
  
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• Commitment to Total Transport and northern councils event

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• CBI urges Cameron to show leadership over Heathrow runway

  09-11-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Airportwatch - David Cameron must exercise strong leadership and have a third runway at Heathrow airport built, the president of Britains biggest lobby group will say on Monday.
  
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• Call for Oxfordshire to relent on proposed bus cuts

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• BYD meets challenge on electric deckers

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• Buses minister to attend UK Bus Awards

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• BA chief Keith Williams to retire

  09-11-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Low-cost carrier executive Alex Cruz to take over next year
  
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• Airbus expects crucial order this year

  09-11-2015 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - A380 progress vital to keep production running beyond 2020
  
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