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• Britain’s privatised railways, going down the toilet? | Letters

  30-08-2016 20:51
  
  Owen Jones paints a picture of Britain’s railway that is far from accurate (On the floor and in first class our railways are a disgrace, 25 August). Twenty years ago, Britain’s railway ran at a £2bn a year loss in terms of day-to-day costs. As the safest and fastest-growing railway in Europe, it now virtually covers those costs, with £3.5bn a year from taxpayers spent on building a better railway.To claim Britain has the highest fares in Europe is misleading, as The Man i
  
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• Southern to reinstate one-third of cancelled train services

  30-08-2016 20:10
  
  Lib Dems say it is a ‘small step in the right direction’ but does not go far enough, and further strikes loom next weekThe train operator Southern will restore more than 100 cancelled services next Monday, bringing some relief after a summer of misery for passengers. The operator, which is owned by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), said 119 services – more than a third of the 341 cancelled on 11 July – would be reinstated. It blamed “unprecedented levels of train crew
  
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• BBC’s Jeremy Vine in alleged road rage incident – video

  30-08-2016 19:15
  
  BBC presenter Jeremy Vine is confronted by a woman during a cycle in an alleged road rage incident. The footage, which was posted by Vine on his Facebook page, shows a woman shouting at him for cycling in the centre of the road in order to avoid car doors on a narrow Kensington street. The incident is said to have taken place last FridayJeremy Vine posts video of alleged road rage incidentContinue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Vine posts video of alleged road rage incident

  30-08-2016 19:11
  
  BBC presenter uploads footage on Facebook showing altercation with motorist as he cycles through west LondonThe BBC presenter Jeremy Vine has published video footage showing a driver threatening to knock him out and allegedly assaulting him while he was on his bicycle.Vine said the incident took place while he was commuting through Kensington, west London, on Friday. The Metropolitan police said it had no record of an incident being reported. Continue reading...
  
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• The railways are no longer just a man's domain: meet the female train drivers

  30-08-2016 11:24
  
  Some depots don’t have female toilets, and children still stare when they see a woman in the driver’s seat, but more is being done to bring gender balance to the railwaysKerry Cassidy was driving trains at 125 miles an hour until she was 37 weeks pregnant. A driver for Great Western Railway on the high-speed route between Plymouth and London Paddington, she bats away any suggestion that the railways are a man’s domain. Modern trains have no need for heavy lifting: long gone are
  
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• How Britain sank its shipping industry by waiving the rules | Polly Toynbee

  30-08-2016 07:59
  
  The fate of a ship stuck in Great Yarmouth sums up the damage that state inaction and unfettered free markets have inflicted on a once-proud merchant fleetMalaviya Twenty has been moored in Great Yarmouth docks since December. To look at, it’s no rustbucket, kept in good shape by its Indian crew – but when I visited a week ago, they hadn’t been paid by the ship’s owners for all those months. This is a story about the fate of shipping in Britain – an often forgotten
  
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• West Midlands Combined Authority receives 36.5m devolution boost

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
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• Uber driver takes sleeping woman on 35-mile detour across London

  30-08-2016 02:00 via standard.co.uk
  
  London Evening Standard - A woman who fell asleep in an Uber car woke up to find she had been taken on 35-mile detour and charged £85 for a journey that should only have taken a few minutes.
  
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• Trial could see end to train tickets and automatic best prices for each journey

  30-08-2016 02:00 via birminghampost.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Post -A 12-month Chiltern Railways trial will be launched later this year on journeys between Birmingham and London
  
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• Transport planners 'neglecting air quality in favour of road death prevention'

  30-08-2016 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - There has been little improvement in air quality over the last 20 years as transport planners concentrate on preventing road deaths, according to a new study.
  
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• Topical seminars for Euro Bus Expo

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• Southwest, pilots reach agreement in principle on new contract

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Dallas-based Southwest Airlines and the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA), the union representing the carriers 8,400 pilots, have reached an agreement in principle on a new contract, according to SWAPA.read more
  
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• ScotRail say 900,000 journeys made fraudulently each year

  30-08-2016 02:00 via scotsman.com
  
  The Scotsman - An estimated 900,000 rail journeys each year in Scotland are made by people who deliberately avoid paying their fare, according to train operator ScotRail, which revealed the figure as it launched a crackdown on fare dodgers.
  
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• ScotRail launches campaign to tackle fare dodgers

  30-08-2016 02:00 via thenational.scot
  
  Other Regional Press - SCOTRAIL has launched a campaign to tackle ticket fraud after it was revealed that 900,000 rail fares are dodged each year by Scots passengers.
  
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• Scotland's new trains arrive next month

  30-08-2016 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - The first of ScotRail's brand new electric units on order from Hitachi will be delivered to the UK in September.
  
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• Rail industry an undoubted success 20 years after privatisation

  30-08-2016 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - Britains rail industry has scored undoubted success in growing its market over the 20 years or so since the industry was privatised- report
  
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• Rail delays between Ipswich and Lowestoft after swing bridge failure

  30-08-2016 02:00 via eadt.co.uk
  
  East Anglian Daily Times - Rail services between Ipswich and Lowestoft via Saxmundham have been delayed because of a bridge fault.
  
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• Plane makes emergency landing after tyre bursts on take off

  30-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A plane flying from Amsterdam to Manchester makes an emergency landing at Birmingham Airport after a tyre burst in flight.
  
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• Pilots on Glasgow Airport alcohol charge released on bail

  30-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Two pilots are released on bail over claims they tried to board a flight from Scotland to the US while under the influence of alcohol.
  
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• Pilots bailed after being charged with being under influence of alcohol

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Herald - Two American airline pilots have been released on bail and charged with being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a passenger jet from Scotland to the US.
  
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• Now for the real test as London Bridge Station opens new concourse after bank holiday

  30-08-2016 02:00 via theargus.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -TWO thirds of the 1billion redeveloped London Bridge station opened for business yesterday.
  
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• Lorry ban on level crossing may be vetoed due to new data

  30-08-2016 02:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  The York Press -A MOVE to ban lorries from the centre of a North Yorkshire town could be scaled down, after businesses objected and new data showed pollution problems are not as bad as feared.
  
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• LAX issues ground stop after false shooter alert

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) issued a ground stop Sunday evening, Aug. 28, after an alert about a possible shooter. read more
  
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• Latest Live Edition 26 August 2016

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• Kirby resigns as Americans president, named Uniteds president

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- American Airlines president Scott Kirby has resigned, effective immediately, to take the same position with rival United Airlines.read more
  
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• GWR shows off the first of its new Class 387 EMUs

  30-08-2016 02:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - New electric multiple units for Great Western Railway have been unveiled, ahead of their introduction into traffic on September 5.
  
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• Former SunExpress CEO joins Thomas Cook Group

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- UK-based tour operator Thomas Cook Group has appointed former SunExpress CEO Paul Schwaiger as commercial director-Continental Europe, effective Sept. 1. read more
  
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• First puts manufacturers latest products to the test in annual Millbrook trials

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
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• First pictures of pilots who 'tried to board their flight to America while drunk' as pair appear in court

  30-08-2016 02:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Mirror -Paul Grebenc, 35, and Carlos Licona, 45, were allegedly under the influence of alcohol before they were due to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to Newark, US
  
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• End of the line for paper rail tickets? New technology 'will detect your smartphone on the train and then deduct the fare when you get off'

  30-08-2016 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - A train company is planning to trial a new hands-free ticket system that will automatically deduct passengers' fares when they exit the train.
  
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• Drivers facing more misery as number of utility roadworks rises by thousands in Oxfordshire

  30-08-2016 02:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -DRIVERS are facing more misery on the roads after utility companies carried out thousands of extra roadworks.
  
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• Driverless Roborace car speeds around Donington

  30-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A prototype racing car, testing self-driving technology for the forthcoming Roborace contest, takes a lap around Donington Park's circuit.
  
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• Crackdown on 'boy racer commuters' under Manchester Airport tunnel

  30-08-2016 02:00 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Manchester Evening News - New figures reveal 60 per cent of drivers in A538 tunnels are speeding as they head towards affluent Cheshire suburbs
  
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• Campaigner claims Oxford train station provision not as bad as survey suggests

  30-08-2016 02:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -A TRANSPORT campaigner has rubbished claims that Oxford is one of the worst cities for train station service in the country, with just one.
  
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• Caledonian MacBrayne sets out new contract targets

  30-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
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• Birmingham Airport runway closed after emergency landing

  30-08-2016 02:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Mail -Runway closed for half an hour after flight from Amsterdam to Manchester forced to land with burst tyre.
  
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• Better journeys on the way for rail passengers across the West Midlands

  30-08-2016 02:00 via gov.uk
  
  Department for Transport - Rail Minister Paul Maynard announces a host of extra benefits and services for passengers in the West Midlands.
  
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• American Airlines boss switches seats to rival United

  30-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - American Airlines president Scott Kirby moves to rival United Continental to take up the same job.
  
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• Alphabet executive quits Uber board

  30-08-2016 02:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Drummonds exit highlights growing rivalry in areas such as driverless cars
  
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• Air pollution 'neglected for road safety', researchers claim

  30-08-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Air pollution in UK cities has failed to improve because politicians prioritise road safety and economic growth instead, research suggests.
  
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• Aeroflot Group reports 1H net profit of $39 million

  30-08-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aviation Industry- Russias Aeroflot Group reported first-half 2016 profit of RUB2.5 billion ($39 million), reversed from a net loss of RUB3.5 billion in the 1H 2015. read more
  
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