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• Greybull Capital: what we know about the Tata Steel Scunthorpe buyer

  11-04-2016 20:40
  
  Deal to rescue plant is credited with saving 4,000 jobs, but private equity firm has overseen redundancies elsewhereThe deal that has resulted in Tata offloading part of its troubled UK steel business to private equity firm Greybull Capital has been credited with saving jobs, although Greybull’s record after taking over other struggling companies may not leave its new employees entirely reassured. The single-page website of Greybull Capital LLP, headquartered in Knightsbridge, central Lond
  
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• Birmingham New Street station power failure causes severe delays

  11-04-2016 11:16
  
  Passengers hit by delays and cancellations across city as outage stops trains from entering or exiting south end of stationA power failure has caused severe disruption to trains at Birmingham New Street.Network Rail advised passengers to avoid using the station during the morning rush hour unless their journey was absolutely necessary.Continue reading...
  
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• Wave of Land Rover Defender thefts in North Yorkshire and North-East sparks security appeal

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo -INSURERS and police have urged owners of a Land Rover Defenders to increase security measures after a 69 per cent rise in thefts of the vehicle in the North-East.
  
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• Vintage bike race will see penny farthings ride through the streets of Darlington

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo -DARLINGTONS smartest cyclists will be out in force for an unusual race this month.
  
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• VIDEO: 'It felt as though the train had derailed'

  11-04-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A tractor driver has suffered serious injuries after a train and a tractor crashed at a level crossing in Norfolk.
  
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• Tractor driver seriously hurt in train crash at Roudham level crossing - 10 people injured

  11-04-2016 02:00 via eadt.co.uk
  
  East Anglian Daily Times - A tractor driver was seriously hurt and nine other people injured when a Greater Anglia train carrying 135 passengers hit the tractor at a level crossing in Roudham, near Thetford, on Sunday lunchtime.
  
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• STOP THE DANGER DRIVERS: Police campaign starting to make public feel safer

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus -PEOPLE in Bradford are starting to feel safer on the district's roads - thanks to a crackdown on danger driving, according to comments made to West Yorkshire Police.
  
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• Snooping councils use drones to fly over HOMES in bid to ramp up planning checks

  11-04-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Daily Express - DRONES could be flown over homes by busy-body councils who claim to be using the controversial vehicles to check planning applications.
  
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• Singapore Airlines could buy Virgin Australia to block Chinese

  11-04-2016 02:00 via topix.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Investment involved in Virgin's big push into the business market leaves its balance sheet in something of a weakened space. Singapore Airlines has the financial firepower to make a bid for the remainder of Virgin Australia, but it may not do so unless a Chinese rival makes an offer for Air New Zealand's 25.9 per cent stake, according to aviation experts.
  
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• Several injured after Norfolk train carrying 135 people crashes into tractor

  11-04-2016 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - A tractor driver has suffered serious injuries after a train carrying 135 people hit his vehicle at a Norfolk level crossing.
  
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• Scepticism over motor track location

  11-04-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A senior figure in a motor circuit owners' group says the motorsport industry is sceptical about locating the proposed Circuit of Wales track in Ebbw Vale.
  
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• Revealed: 57 London Tube stations at 'high and rising' risk of flooding

  11-04-2016 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - A London Underground report has revealed 57 Tube stations are at high risk of flooding from heavy rain and burst water pipes, with the danger increasing.
  
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• Revealed: 57 London Tube stations at 'high and rising' risk of flooding

  11-04-2016 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - A London Underground report has revealed 57 Tube stations are at high risk of flooding from heavy rain and burst water pipes, with the danger increasing.
  
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• Reading Buses services will not stop at Blagrave Street due to building works in Reading

  11-04-2016 02:00 via getreading.co.uk
  
  Reading Evening Post -Routes Jet Black 1, Lime 2/2a and Scarlet X9 will be affected from Monday, April 11 until Sunday, April 17
  
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• Railway near Thetford reopens after train and tractor level crossing crash

  11-04-2016 02:00 via eadt.co.uk
  
  East Anglian Daily Times - The railway line between Norwich and Ely has reopened this morning after a serious crash near Thetford yesterday.
  
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• PHOTOS: World's newest cruise ship arrives in Southampton

  11-04-2016 02:00 via dailyecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -The worlds latest and, claimed to be, most innovative cruise ship will arrive in Southampton later today.
  
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• Norfolk Train And Tractor Collision Leaves Passengers Injured At Roudham

  11-04-2016 02:00 via huffingtonpost.co.uk
  
  Huffington Post - A driver is believed to have been seriously hurt and a number of passengers injured when a train hit a tractor on a level crossing. The passenger service was reportedly carrying around 135 people when it crashed into the vehicle in Roudham, Norfolk, The Press Association reports. Police, ambulance and fire services were called to the scene at around 12.30pm on Sunday. British Transport Police said the train operator and a number of passengers were treated at the scene by parame
  
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• Network Rail revaluation adds £100bn to accounts

  11-04-2016 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
  The Telegraph - The Governments balance sheet will be boosted by at least £100bn this summer because of an accounting change that will significantly increase the value of Network Rail.
  
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• Nearly 350 laser pen incidents reported to South Yorkshire Police in less than two years

  11-04-2016 02:00 via rss.feedsportal.com
  
  Doncaster Free Post - Police in South Yorkshire were called out to 349 incidents involving laser pens in less than two years, new figures reveal.
  
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• Nasa scrambles to save Kepler spacecraft from state of emergency

  11-04-2016 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Spacecraft, which has detected almost 5,000 planets, remains in lowest operational mode to conserve fuel while Nasa assess issue that began last weekNasa was on Sunday trying to save its Kepler spacecraft, the ageing planet hunter that has survived several crises and has once again slipped into a state of emergency, nearly 75 million miles away from Earth. Related: Earth 2.0: Nasa says scientists have found 'closest twin' outside solar systemContinue reading...
  
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• Motorway misery looms for drivers as roadworks start on M62

  11-04-2016 02:00 via examiner.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Series of repair schemes under way on busy motorway
  
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• Motorists rescued after becoming trapped by the sea on Lindisfarne

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo -Two people had to be rescued from a car after becoming stranded by the sea on a tidal causeway.
  
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• More traffic woe ahead for Durham drivers as work continues to improve journey times

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo -MOTORISTS who have faced months of traffic troubles are due to face further woes as the next phase of scheme to improve journey times on the main route through Durham City begins on Monday (April 11).
  
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• Midlands sees rise in Land Rover Defender thefts

  11-04-2016 02:00 via birminghampost.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Post -Insurer claims it has seen a increase in the number of claims from owners of the iconic vehicles after production stopped in January
  
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• London company 3D prints bamboo bike in just 8 hours

  11-04-2016 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - A London company has 3D printed a bike that is made with bamboo in just eight hours.
  
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• Leeds airport bosses call for crackdown after thousands of laser incidents reported to police

  11-04-2016 02:00 via yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Evening Post - LEEDS airport bosses are calling for tighter restrictions over the use of laser pens after police received thousands of reports over their misuseputting pilots and passengers at risk.
  
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• Karakoram Highway video shows bus being washed away in Pakistan amid heavy flooding

  11-04-2016 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Several passengers escaped with their lives when the bus they were travelling in along the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan was swept away in a raging torrent of flood water.
  
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• JetSuite's New Affordable Private Jet Service

  11-04-2016 02:00 via eupolitics.einnews.com
  EIN News Subscription - mp;#8230;long line to get through airport security. Or, getting a TSA patdown mp;#8230;hope of JetSuite, a private jet charter operator that is promising mp;#8230;tertiary airports that have largely been abandoned.mp;quot; Must Read: Europe Under mp;#8230;
  
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• Inflatable room delivered to the International Space Station

  11-04-2016 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - The bedroom-sized pod offers a new way of living in space and on other planetsA SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered the first inflatable room for astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral.Astronauts, including the UKs Tim Peake, orbiting 250 miles above Earth used a robotic arm to capture the Dragon, which holds three tonnes of freight and had as part of its payload a soft-sided compartment built by Bigelow Aerospace. Co
  
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• Governments plan to sell Edinburgh Airport to Qatar

  11-04-2016 02:00 via scotsman.com
  
  The Scotsman - Selling Edinburgh Airport to the rulers of Qatar was top of Alex Salmonds agenda during a trade mission, according to civil servant papers.
  
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• Electric car visits Swindon as part of Britain's answer to Route 66

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thisiswiltshire.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -WHILE Americas Route 66 is internationally known, Britain and Irelands Route 57 is more of a mystery.
  
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• Early and late trains to be affected as electrification work begins at Newport Station

  11-04-2016 02:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -COMMUTERS are being reminded to check their train times as work to prepare Newport Station for the electrification of the South Wales Mainline starts today.
  
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• Crewless 'drone ships' will be sailing the seas by 2020

  11-04-2016 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
  The Telegraph - Remote-controlled drone ships will be plying the sealanes without crews on board by the end of the decade, according to Rolls-Royce.
  
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• Cranleigh society claim Downs Link would not be viable to reopen

  11-04-2016 02:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - The £25m busway would reportedly alleviate pressure on the A281 between Horsham and Guildford but the society disagree
  
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• Crane carrying an Air India plane crashes to the ground next to Hyderabad Begumpet Airport in India

  11-04-2016 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Workers ran for their lives as a huge aircraft came crashing down when the crane that was carrying it collapsed. The incident happened at the Hyderabad Begumpet Airport in India.
  
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• Could Britain's booming car factories help save our steel industry?

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- Changes to Government policies and big investment in the technology required to make the quality of steel needed for cars could help British steel-makers ride the automotive boom.
  
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• Calls to improve safety at danger road junction

  11-04-2016 02:00 via blackpoolgazette.co.uk
  
  Blackpool Gazette - Renewed calls have been made for action to be taken over a controversial road junction after a motorcyclist was injured following a collision with a car.
  
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• Calls to ban laser pens after hundreds of police calls in the region in just two years

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo -HUNDREDS of incidents of people shining laser pens at cars, planes and homes have been recorded in the region, leading to calls for them to be classed as offensive weapons.
  
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• Brookwood railway station to shut for three months

  11-04-2016 02:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - South West Trains is closing the station from Monday April 25 and could reverse the "hazardous" entrance and exit
  
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• B-52 brought back to beef up fight against Isis Subscription

  11-04-2016 02:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  
  Times Online - The B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber has joined the fight against Isis in a dramatic psychological expansion of the air campaign in Syria and Iraq.
  
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• Alliance Rail accuses DfT of blackmail over East Coast

  11-04-2016 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - Alliance Rail has accused DfT of blackmailing ORR by threatening to withdraw funding for ECML upgrades if it allows more open access services to run.
  
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• All the planned West Midlands roadworks for April 11-17

  11-04-2016 02:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  
  Other Regional Press -Don't get caught out on the roads this week by using a comprehensive list of planned works
  
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• Airports, made for everyone but passengers

  11-04-2016 02:00 via eupolitics.einnews.com
  EIN News Subscription - mp;#8230; before boarding the plane. Passing through security these daysmp;#8230;are airports built for everyonethe city, the airlines,mp;#8230;passengers? One answer is a current trend of airport architecture mp;#8230; airports of Europes capital cities? Will they be in the airports mp;#8230;
  
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• 200 bikers take to York streets

  11-04-2016 02:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  The York Press -TWO hundred bikershavemet in York this weekend.
  
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