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• Jeremy Corbyn fends off Branson's attack over 'ram-packed' Virgin train

  23-08-2016 22:01
  
  Virgin releases CCTV footage they say disputes Labour leader’s claim that no seats were available, but Corbyn camp says he could not sit next to his wifeJeremy Corbyn was drawn into an extraordinary row with Virgin Trains after the rail operator disputed the Labour leader’s filmed account of having to sit on the floor of a “ram-packed” train, releasing CCTV images of him walking past free seats beforehand and sitting down shortly after the film was shot.Backed up by Virgi
  
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• Southern rail staff to stage 48-hour strike over role of guards

  23-08-2016 19:04
  
  RMT union announces members will walk out on 7 and 8 September amid dispute over driver-only train operationWorkers at Southern rail are to stage a fresh 48-hour strike in the long-running row over the role of guards.The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union announced that its members will walk out on 7 and 8 September, causing further travel problems for passengers. Continue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn walked past empty seats on 'packed' train, says Virgin

  23-08-2016 18:58
  
  Virgin disputes Labour leader’s claim that no seats were available but Corbyn camp says he wanted two seats together so he could sit next to his wifeVirgin Trains has disputed Jeremy Corbyn’s filmed account of having to sit on the floor of a “ram-packed” London-to-Newcastle service, releasing CCTV images that it said showed the Labour leader walking past empty, unreserved seats.In a statement on Tuesday supported by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Trains said it wanted to &ld
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn walked past empty seats on 'packed' train, Virgin says

  23-08-2016 18:14
  
  Virgin disputes Labour leader’s claim that no seats were available but Corbyn camp says he wanted two seats together so he could sit next to his wifeVirgin Trains has disputed Jeremy Corbyn’s filmed account of having to sit on the floor of a “ram-packed” London-to-Newcastle service, releasing CCTV images that it said showed the Labour leader walking past empty, unreserved seats.In a statement on Tuesday supported by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Trains said it wanted to &ld
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn walks through packed carriage during 11 August train trip – video

  23-08-2016 17:21
  
  New footage from Corbyn’s train trip on the 11 August has been sent to the Guardian in which someone standing next to him says, in seeming reference to a lack of seats: ‘Hopefully at York some people will get off.’ The footage sent by Yannis Mendez, who originally filmed Corbyn sitting on the floor of the train, also shows the Labour leader walking through a packed carriageVirgin Trains disputes Jeremy Corbyn claim over lack of seatsContinue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn takes a seat on 'ram-packed' Virgin train – video

  23-08-2016 16:53
  
  Virgin Trains has released CCTV footage of Jeremy Corbyn taking a seat on a train on 11 August on the London-to-Newcastle service, to dispute his claims there was nowhere to sit. Last week, Corbyn was filmed sitting on the floor of the three-hour train journey calling for the nationalisation of the railwaysVirgin Trains disputes Jeremy Corbyn claim over lack of seatsContinue reading...
  
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• Virgin Trains disputes Jeremy Corbyn claim over lack of seats

  23-08-2016 16:24
  
  Film of Labour leader sitting on floor of ‘ram-packed’ train countered by CCTV footage of him walking past empty seats
  Virgin Trains has disputed Jeremy Corbyn’s filmed account of having to sit on the floor of a “ram-packed” London-to-Newcastle service, releasing CCTV images that it said showed the Labour leader walking past empty, unreserved seats.In a statement on Tuesday which was supported by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Trains said it wanted to “clarify&rd
  
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• Work set to begin on new rail interchange

  23-08-2016 02:00 via loughboroughecho.net
  
  Other Regional Press - The project will include an onside rail freight terminal suitable for 750m freight trains and it will have direct connection into the National Freight Network and will be a three to three and a half year programme in various phases.
  
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• Why a third runway at Heathrow would help the UK thrive in a post-Brexit world

  23-08-2016 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
  The Telegraph - We have immense, depressing form when it comes to dithering over airports.
  
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• VW faces production delays amid dispute

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Carmaker Volkswagen introduces short-time working at six of its plants in Germany amid a dispute with two external suppliers.
  
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• Virgin Atlantic to offer live TV on its Boeing 787s

  23-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- UK long-haul operator Virgin Atlantic is to offer live TV on its Boeing 787s after signing a partnership with Panasonic Avionics and IMG.read more
  
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• Uber set to launch food delivery rival

  23-08-2016 02:00 via thebusinessdesk.com
  
  The Business Desk - GROUND-breaking taxi app Uber is set to launch a food delivery service in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds in direct competition to rival Deliveroo.
  
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• This self-driving bus could radically change public transportation

  23-08-2016 02:00 via uk.businessinsider.com
  
  Other News Sources - Mercedes-Benz wants to completely change your bus-riding experience.In July, the auto company unveiled its vision for the aptly named Future Busa semiautonomous bus that successfully completed a 12-mile route that included traffic lights, tunnels, and navigating around pedestrians.
  
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• Thieves steal tram undercarriages weighing FIVE TONNES from Wrexham yard

  23-08-2016 02:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) -The bogies, as they are known, were taken from the Five Crosses Industrial Estate in Minera
  
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• These 2 charts show why your train commute in Britain is hell

  23-08-2016 02:00 via uk.businessinsider.com
  
  Other News Sources - Train journeys in the UK have sky-rocketed since the early 1990s while investment has failed to keep pace, explaining why commuting on the train can be such an over-crowded, horrible experience.
  
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• TAXI giant Uber is to launch in Newport

  23-08-2016 02:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The app-based taxi firm, which uses drivers who use their own vehicles, has been granted an operators licence by Newport City Council.
  
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• Swansea canal restoration: Engineer 'sheds new light'

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Volunteers working to restore the historical Swansea canal enlist the help of an engineer tasked with filling it in back in the 1970s.
  
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• Second-hand car sales hit record level in first half

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - The number of second-hand cars sold in the UK has reached its highest level yet with more than four million vehicles sold in the first half of this year.
  
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• Seafords petition plea for end to rail misery

  23-08-2016 02:00 via eastbourneherald.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Local residents are calling on Chris Grayling MP to take action as there are still only a handful of Seaford-Brighton train services running despite the fact that Southern Rails emergency timetable was supposed to end on August 7.
  
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• Rehaul at North Yorkshire rail station

  23-08-2016 02:00 via thebusinessdesk.com
  
  The Business Desk - A REHAUL of the railway station buildings in Knaresborough got underway yesterday.
  
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• Passengers could be charged £25 for failed claims against airlines

  23-08-2016 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - BA and easyJet, as well as Thomson and Thomas Cook, sign up to resolution service for delays, lost baggage and cancellationsPassengers of easyJet and British Airways, and the UKs biggest package holiday operators, could be charged £25 if they make a complaint about delays, cancellations or lost baggage that is subsequently not upheld.The airlines, plus Thomson and Thomas Cook, have joined a dispute resolution service for tricky complaints that cannot be resolved by the compa
  
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• New Lincoln bus website helps commuters get to their destination

  23-08-2016 02:00 via thelincolnite.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - A student at the University of Lincoln has created a new website to help commuters bypass the complications of the Lincoln bus timetable.
  
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• NEW DUNDEE BUS SCHEME WILL BE JUST THE TICKET

  23-08-2016 02:00 via eveningtelegraph.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Dundee commuters will soon be able to use one ticket on all three of the citys bus operators.
  
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• More trouble for Southern: Card payment failure hits rush hour

  23-08-2016 02:00 via cityam.com
  
  City AM - Customers of Southern Rail, already fuming over ongoing service delays and then strike action, were dealt another blow on the morning rush hour commute.
  
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• Merseyrail accused of discrimination by disabled passenger made to wait in box

  23-08-2016 02:00 via southportvisiter.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Merseyrail have been accused of disability discrimination after a passenger was left 'humiliated' and 'embarrassed' after being made to wait in a box while waiting for a train in Southport.
  
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• Manchester Airport opens new route to China

  23-08-2016 02:00 via examiner.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Yorkshire firms now have strengthened links to China with the launch of a new direct flight from Manchester Airport
  
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• Land for potential rail routes protected in South Derbyshire local plan

  23-08-2016 02:00 via burtonmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The document, which sets out a blueprint for development in the district for the next decade, notes the areas of potential development of railway stations in Castle Gresley, Drakelow and Stenson Fields, near Derby.
  
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• If the age of self-driving cars is upon us, what's keeping them off the roads?

  23-08-2016 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - As Google and Uber trial prototypes, the future of fully driverless cars and safer roads should come sooner than anyone thoughtbut theyre in no mood to rush Sitting in the passenger seat of Googles self driving car is a less bizarre experience than sitting in the driving seat, but its still unsettling. In the streets of Mountain View, outside the headquarters of X (once Google X, in the post-Alphabet age its moved out of mum and dads house and dropped the prefix), I got the chance
  
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• Haley Sharpe Design helps to breathe life into Mail Rail exhibition

  23-08-2016 02:00 via leicestermercury.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - For years the old Mail Rail tunnels under London have been gathering cobwebs. Now a Leicester design agency is helping bring them back to life for the public to enjoy.
  
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• Giant ship begins new North Sea oil and gas era

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - One of the world's biggest ships begins a new era for the North Sea oil and gas industry by removing a platform for scrappage.
  
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• GHA Coaches: 200 buses and coaches to be sold at auction

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Two hundred buses and coaches belonging to a Wrexham company which collapsed last month are to be sold off at auction.
  
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• Fresh opposition over 250m marina scheme

  23-08-2016 02:00 via theargus.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -CAMPAIGNERS have launched a fresh legal challenge to the 250 million development of Brighton Marina.
  
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• Former Skanska boss to head Galliford Trys HS2 team bid

  23-08-2016 02:00 via constructionenquirer.com
  Construction Enquirer - Industry veteran David Blackburn has been appointed managing director of Momentum Infrastructure, a joint venture comprising Dragados, Galliford Try and Hochtief.
  
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• First weekend of Night Tube has 100k users

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - More than 100,000 journeys were completed by people using the Night Tube during its first weekend of operation, Transport for London says.
  
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• Editorial: Onboard safety videos need to change the script

  23-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- All 300 people onboard the Emirates Boeing 777 escaped with their lives when the aircraft crash-landed at Dubai Airport and burst into flames. Sadly a firefighter was killed tackling the blaze, but the scale of the tragedy could have been so much larger.read more
  
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• Edinburgh's transport leader Lesley Hinds to stand down

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Edinburgh's transport leader Lesley Hinds is to stand down at next year's local elections.
  
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• 'Don't call your ex': Night Tube 'rules' appear on Underground to remind late night revellers how to behave

  23-08-2016 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Comedy stickers reminding people how to behave on the new Night Tube services have mysteriously appeared in train carriages.
  
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• Details omitted in Renault emissions report

  23-08-2016 02:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Fears that government might be too lenient because of 20 per cent stake in carmaker
  
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• Delta to consolidate London Heathrow operations

  23-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Delta Air Lines will consolidate its London Heathrow Airport operations in Terminal 3 as of Sept. 14, the Atlanta-based airline announced Aug. 22.read more
  
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• Costain JV picks up final Crossrail contract

  23-08-2016 02:00 via theconstructionindex.co.uk
  Other News Sources - A joint venture of Alstom Transport (UK), TSO and Costain has been awarded a £26m contract to build a rail maintenance depot in Plumstead.
  
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• Centuries old tram tracks uncovered by Nottingham railway station

  23-08-2016 02:00 via nottinghampost.com
  Nottingham Evening Post - Historic tram lines thought to be a century old have been dug up in the latest work at Station Street in Nottingham.
  
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• Cambridge City Council leaders respond to latest Government statement on devolution

  23-08-2016 02:00 via cambridgenetwork.co.uk
  Other News Sources - The Leader and Deputy Leader of Cambridge City Council, Councillors Lewis Herbert and Kevin Price, have issued a joint statement in response to the latest government media statement on devolution, reported today (22 August) in The Times.
  
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• Cab firms tell Uber to accept rules that level playing field

  23-08-2016 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - Dozens of London-based minicab firms have called on Uber to abandon its legal challenge to new rules that require some drivers to sit a written English test.
  
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• Buses battle it out on test track

  23-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - BBC News visits an annual bus competition designed to test handling and fuel efficiency, which helps a UK bus group choose the next generation of vehicles.
  
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• BMX rider takes extraordinary hit to the face in attempt to skip rail crossing barrier

  23-08-2016 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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• Birmingham Airport scales new heights after processing a record number of passengers

  23-08-2016 02:00 via thebusinessdesk.com
  
  The Business Desk - BIRMINGHAM Airport has recorded its busiest-ever 12-month period, processing more than 11 million passengers.
  
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• BA and China Eastern create new links

  23-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- British Airways will increase its exposure to the booming Chinese market through a new codeshare arrangement with China Eastern Airlines.read more
  
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• Anger at railway footbridge delay

  23-08-2016 02:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - A LONG-awaited new footbridge at Newport railway station planned to be built by March 2017, has been delayed.The footbridge, linking Devon Place and Queensway, would replace a graffitied and secluded subway where two sex attacks took place in 2011.
  
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• Analysis: Delta & Southwest technology crashes raise troubling questions

  23-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines are very different airlines. One is a global full-service airline with a fleet of varied aircraft types and multiple product offerings for passengers, while the other is the worlds original low-cost carrier with an all-Boeing 737 fleet, no business class and a mostly domestic operation. read more
  
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• Amateur cyclist sets new 'world record' - on a Liverpool Citybike

  23-08-2016 02:00 via liverpoolecho.co.uk
  
  Liverpool Post - Harry Wytton goes faste than a London's Boris Bike rider
  
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