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• YES to bus hub - NO to bus station

  25-09-2016 02:00 via blackpoolgazette.co.uk
  
  Blackpool Gazette - A bus hub will be built as part of Blackpools £24m tramway expansion.
  
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• Watch this incredible Airbus formation flight

  25-09-2016 02:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) - All the wings for the planes are built at the plant in Broughton in Flinsthire, where 6,000 workers are employed
  
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• Wales Assembly

  25-09-2016 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - Recorded coverage of the debate in the Welsh Assembly on transport in Wales,
  
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• 'Unprecedented' 90million to be pumped into roads to boost infrastructure

  25-09-2016 02:00 via hampshirechronicle.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -COUNTY council chiefs say they are pumping in 90m into roads to keep traffic moving in Hampshire.
  
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• Trams suspended following fire

  25-09-2016 02:00 via blackpoolgazette.co.uk
  
  Blackpool Gazette - Tram services in Blackpool are currently suspended after a fire on a heritage tram.
  
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• This is why you shouldn't leave your car behind a Boeing 757

  25-09-2016 02:00 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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• These photos show how Porth railway station has been transformed by 73 new parking spaces

  25-09-2016 02:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online - A Rhondda railway station now has 73 extra spaces as a park and ride scheme was officially opened this week.
  
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• South West Trains delays after train breaks down at London Road railway station in Guildford

  25-09-2016 02:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -Lines were blocked between Guildford and Effingham on Saturday morning after a train broke down at London Road railway station
  
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• ScotRail passengers will soon be able to pay with contactless cards

  25-09-2016 02:00 via sundaypost.com
  
  Other News Sources - PASSENGERS will soon be able to pay for tickets using new contactless bank cards, ScotRail bosses have revealed.
  
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• Rail bosses "flabbergasted" by bridge repairs needed after two years

  25-09-2016 02:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press -RAIL bosses have been left baffled after a new bridge opened less than two years ago is already in need of resurfacing.
  
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• Process for rail campaign branded bizarrely complicated

  25-09-2016 02:00 via thecourier.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The entire Levenmouth community has been urged to demand a fair and transparent process in the bid for a rail link.
  
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• Preston Bus drivers work to rule in attempt to speed up pay rise

  25-09-2016 02:00 via lep.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Disgruntled Preston Bus Ltd workers have decided to work to rule in an attempt to speed up pay rise negotiations.
  
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• Paris tests its first ever unpiloted minibuses on French capital's streets

  25-09-2016 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - The vehicles - which French transport chiefs hope will be running regular routes within two years - is being tested on the banks of the River Seine today.
  
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• Once-in-a-generation changes to rail links?

  25-09-2016 02:00 via whtimes.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - Changes to the Great Northern timetable proposed for 2018 will mean more rail routes from Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield and Potters Bar into London and beyond.
  
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• Lawyers call on Government to release details of GTR's franchise agreement

  25-09-2016 02:00 via theargus.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources -LAWYERS acting on a behalf of a group of commuters have written to the Department for Transport asking if Southern's parent company has breached its franchise agreement.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn, a ram-packed Virgin train and my reserved seat: The Mirror's unbelievable journey to Labour conference

  25-09-2016 02:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - Jeremy Corbyn was in my seat.What were the chances? That less than a month after the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition derailed himself over a train seat, he'd be sitting in mine?
  
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• How driverless cars could change our whole future John Naughton

  25-09-2016 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian - Vast areas of land are covered in parked cars. When self-driving vehicles become commonplace, we might devote that dead space to something useful insteadIm looking at two photographs of the main street of the small town in which I was born. Both are taken from the same vantage pointlooking up the hill to the T-junction at the top. The two photographs are separated by nearly a century: the first was taken in the 1930s, the second sometime in the last few years.Topographically, the
  
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• High-flier Maureen takes to the road for National Express

  25-09-2016 02:00 via lep.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Former flier Maureen Baxters life as a travel pioneer has brought her back down to earth.
  
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• Forth Bridge closure changes commute forever

  25-09-2016 02:00 via scotsman.com
  
  The Scotsman - Scots commuting habits could be permanently altered by major transport disruption incidents, academics have predicted.
  
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• Edinburgh Trams boss quit over

  25-09-2016 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Herald - THE former boss of Edinburgh Trams quit his job in anger over the outrageous spying carried out against his colleagues by rival transport firm Lothian Buses.
  
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• Cycling sportive leads line-up of events for all the family this weekend

  25-09-2016 02:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus -A CYCLING event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Bradford is one of the highlights of events taking place this weekend across the district.
  
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• Calls for ScotRail to be taken back from Dutch control following service complaints

  25-09-2016 02:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  
  Daily Record - Critics want operators Abellio to be ditched at the earliest opportunity and a publicly-owned Scottish organisation installed in their place.
  
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• Ambitious plans for new £70million train line to Aberdeen Airport and AECC

  25-09-2016 02:00 via pressandjournal.co.uk
  The Press and Journal (Aberdeen) - City council chiefs have unveiled ambitious £70million plans for a rail link to the airport and new exhibition and conference centre.
  
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• I fell for her curves, but politics came between us | Kevin McKenna

  25-09-2016 01:05
  
  I was immune to the thrill of a luxury car, until I was introduced to a Jaguar XKIn my head, Roberta Flack was singing: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face when my eyes met hers and, though I never got to know her name, I feel sure it must have been something like Penelope or Ursula or Francesca. She was way, way out of my league and during our two years together she would occasionally remind me of this. She drank like a fish, went like a train and flirted with all my friends.Before her, I&rsquo
  
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