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• Ferry runs aground in Calais harbour – video

  10-12-2017 17:27
  A ferry carrying more than 200 passengers has become stuck in windy conditions in Calais, the local government said on Sunday. The Pride of Kent, which was bound for Dover at about midday, is believed to have run aground on a sandbank in the harbourFerry runs aground in Calais harbourContinue reading...
  
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• Ferry runs aground in Calais harbour

  10-12-2017 14:55
  No injuries reported as ferry with more than 200 passengers on board runs aground in stormy weatherA ferry with more than 200 passengers on board has run aground in stormy weather in Calais in northern France, the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said. “Nobody is hurt and the ship is stable,” a spokesman said on Sunday.Continue reading...
  
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• Valley rail link hopes boosted by new government study

  10-12-2017 01:00 via rossendalefreepress.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - MP Jake Berry has written to Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to put the case for Rossendale lines to be reopened
  
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• Transport Scotland wins bridge award despite unfinished work

  10-12-2017 01:00 via scotsman.com
  The Scotsman - Transport Scotland has won an award for its work on the new Queensferry Crossing just days after announcing up to ten months of extra works on the bridge.
  
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• Train user numbers top one million mark

  10-12-2017 01:00 via stratford-herald.com
  Other News Sources - THE number of journeys made to and from Stratford-upon-Avons town centre railway station has topped one million for the first time.
  
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• The moments London Midland passengers will not forget

  10-12-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - At precisely 02:00 GMT on Sunday, a maligned train operator stopped running the West Midlands rail franchise covering a swathe of the nation. Since 2007, London Midland had offered more than 1,000 services a day. Or according to its timetable it did. The reality was somewhat different. What follows are the moments that left customers bemused, peeved or just plain chilly on a platform, wishing their phone had more charge.
  
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• The Girlpower Tunnel Gang! Meet the female Crossrail engineers behind the biggest construction job in Europe

  10-12-2017 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  Mail Online - Britain has lowest proportion of female engineers in Europe at just eight per cent, but theres one project thats been groundbreaking both literally and figuratively; almost a third of the engineers on the £15 billion Crossrail project are women
  
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• Six-minute rail link promises to transform North-west train services

  10-12-2017 01:00 via independent.co.uk
  The Independent - The second weekend in December marks the start of a new year for the railways of Britain and Europe, when timetable alterations are made and new projects unveiled. When revised services start on Sunday morning, the UK's most significant new train link will be a non-stop hop between Manchester Victoria and Manchester Oxford Road.
  
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• Quiet zones on South Western Railway could be axed

  10-12-2017 01:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - Train operator South Western Railway is considering scrapping its quiet carriages and is asking its passengers whether they want them to stay or go.
  
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• Open skies deal will see China flights take off Subscription

  10-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - Britain has signed a landmark airline deal with China in what ministers claim is the first of a series of open skies agreements to boost trade and tourism after Brexit.
  
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• New passenger record for London Luton Airport

  10-12-2017 01:00 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Other News Sources - Some 1,008,184 passengers travelled through London Luton Airport in November, an increase of 5.6 per cent when compared with the same month in the previous year.
  
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• Memorial marks 80 years since Castlecary train disaster

  10-12-2017 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A snowstorm and a signal error left 35 people dead and 179 hurt in North Lanarkshire in 1937.
  
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• London 'one of most expensive cities in world to catch an Uber'

  10-12-2017 01:00 via standard.co.uk
  London Evening Standard - London is one of the most expensive cities in the world to take an Uber, new stats have shown.
  
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• Improved rail connections for Harrogate and Knaresborough

  10-12-2017 01:00 via strayfm.com
  Other News Sources - Sunday rail services between Knaresborough and Leeds have been increased from every hour to every 30 minutes.
  
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• HS2 is set to 'wipe out' Aston Villa's academy in Warwickshire

  10-12-2017 01:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  Other Regional Press - HS2 is set to wipe out Bodymoor Heath, the training complex in Warwickshire used by Aston Villa.
  
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• Expert attacks volatile Borders Railway service

  10-12-2017 01:00 via scotsman.com
  The Scotsman - Passengers on the Borders Railway are still suffering volatile punctuality and poor service, two years after its opening teething troubles should have been sorted, according to campaigners.
  
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• Dodgy door left train passenger in agony but ScotRail give her the cold shoulder

  10-12-2017 01:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  Daily Record - Samantha Ebury was hurt trying to help a disabled man trapped in doorway but says she has been blanked by rail firm.
  
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• Could passenger services return on Melton to Nottingham railway line 51 years after they were axed?

  10-12-2017 01:00 via leicestermercury.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - The line was a casualty of the Beeching cuts in the 1960s
  
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• British Transport Police staff fear for pensions

  10-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - Morale within British Transport Police is low because of uncertainty caused by its forthcoming merger with Police Scotland, a report reveals.
  
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• BA bumps staff into economy pension scheme

  10-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - Another of the great industrial final-salary pension schemes is to fully close after British Airways said that it would put 37,000 workers on to the same defined-contribution plan.
  
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• At last, faster trains to arrive in north Subscription

  10-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - Rail links between three of Britains largest citiesManchester, Bradford and Leedswill be upgraded as part of the multibillion-pound Northern Powerhouse Rail project.
  
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• Airliner nearly hit by drone over Glasgow Subscription

  10-12-2017 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - A passenger plane narrowly avoided collision with a remote-controlled drone over Glasgow, it has emerged.
  
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