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• Working hard to repair West Sussex potholes

  03-02-2018 01:00 via westsussextoday.co.uk
  West Sussex Gazette - Recent wet weather and frequent variations between mild and cold/freezing temperatures have led to an increased number of potholes on West Sussex roads, according to the county council.
  
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• Work begins to re-open ghost railway line dormant for 40 years

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  Daily Post (North Wales) -The stretch of line, closed in the 1970s, is benefiting from an £18m investment
  
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• What would you do in a driverless car - you'll never believe what 1 in 10 people said

  03-02-2018 01:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  Birmingham Mail - Read a book, learn a language, play video games or try something more risqu perhaps
  
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• Three arrested after stabbing on London Underground

  03-02-2018 01:00 via scotsman.com
  The Scotsman - Three people have been arrested following a stabbing on a London Underground platform, police said.
  
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• Stevenage stations fifth platform could be built in 2020, says transport minister

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thecomet.net
  Other Regional Press - The Government has put pressure on Network Rail to try to make sure rail replacement bus services between Stevenage and Hertford North only have to be in place for just over two years18 months less than has previously been stated.
  
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• Some speed cameras have now been switched on in Northamptonshire and here's where

  03-02-2018 01:00 via daventryexpress.co.uk
  Daventry Express - Motorists driving above the speed limit on the new smart motorway in Northamptonshire will now be hit with a fine.
  
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• So huge, so beautiful: how classic ocean liners steamed into our hearts Ian Jack

  03-02-2018 01:00 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian - I was lucky enough to cross the Atlantic on the QE2. Now a show at the Vmp;amp;A rekindles that eras impossible glamourUntil the recent advent of other kinds of vesselvast tankers and container shipsocean liners were the largest moving objects that humans had ever made. They were also very beautiful. How was it, then, that when the last great transatlantic liner was being built, only a few miles from where I lived, I never went to see it on the stocks? That my glimpses of it were
  
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• Ryanair in new battle with union Subscription

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - Ryanair has asked Dublin-based pilots to bypass their trade union and directly accept a pay increase, a month after its decision to recognise workers groups.
  
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• Rural parking charges: Could card and phone payments exclude the elderly from Surrey's top countryside estates?

  03-02-2018 01:00 via getsurrey.co.uk
  Other News Sources - It was agreed on Tuesday (January 30) that paying the fees with a card or phone is safer and quicker Concerns over modern car park payments deterring the elderly
  
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• Review orders more ambulances on the road and hospitals to check patients in quicker after winter crisis

  03-02-2018 01:00 via eadt.co.uk
  East Anglian Daily Times - The regions ambulance trust will put extra crews on the road by using private ambulance services and hospitals have been ordered to take patients into Amp;E quicker.
  
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• READER LETTER: Make cyclists cycle against the traffic

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailyecho.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - OVER the years, reading about accidents involving cyclists, nearly all of them have been hit from behind or from the side by vehicles turning left without seeing them.
  
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• RAY MASSEY: Honda gambles on a new diesel-powered civic

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  This is Money- Honda is boldly adding a diesel variant to the line-up of its British-built Civic. Is it mad? Bosses don't think so. Modern diesels that are cleaner, leaner and more fuel-efficient are still in demand.
  
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• Rail passengers warned of disruption due to upgrade work

  03-02-2018 01:00 via southwalesargus.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - RAIL passengers are being urged to check before they travel ahead of modernisation work between Newport and Cardiff this month.
  
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• Probe launched amid claims of airline seat splitting

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  Mail Online - The CAA will investigate whether airlines useprogrammes that deliberately separate families when they book together in order to force them to pay extra for seats next to each other.
  
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• Pop up railway stations could test passenger demand, say Greens

  03-02-2018 01:00 via scotsman.com
  The Scotsman - Pop-up rail stations should be built to test passenger demand at new stops, the Scottish Greens have urged.
  
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• Police seek unpaid drivers for 10hr days Subscription

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - A police force is recruiting unpaid volunteers to drive officers around.
  
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• Plans to build first new Hampshire railway station in 25 years

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailyecho.co.uk
  Other Regional Press -NEW proposals are being put together for the first new railway station in Hampshire for 25 years, the Daily Echo can reveal.
  
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• OSullivan supports law on overtaking to save cyclists Subscription

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - Sonia OSullivan has pledged her support to the campaign for a minimum passing distance law, and criticised impatient drivers who dangerously overtake cyclists.
  
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• Northern Rail reveals first glimpse of new electric trains coming to Bolton

  03-02-2018 01:00 via theboltonnews.co.uk
  Bolton News -THIS train is the first of a bigger, faster, and better fleet that will be arriving in Bolton.
  
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• New Aston Martins to be sold with birth certificates

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  This is Money- Aston Martin has installed 20 fixed cameras to capture every key moment in the creation of the owners new car.
  
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• Mum demands answers as school children dropped two miles from home

  03-02-2018 01:00 via scotsman.com
  The Scotsman - A mother has told how her young children have been having nightmares after they were dropped at the wrong stop by the school bus.
  
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• More drink-drivers convicted

  03-02-2018 01:00 via westsussextoday.co.uk
  West Sussex Gazette - More people have been taken off the road after the latest round of convictions for drink and drug-driving.
  
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• Missing children search after bus blunder

  03-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A council says it will learn lessons after two school children were left by a roadside miles from their stop.
  
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• Metro strike: Last gasp talks to avert disruption take place between RMT and Nexus

  03-02-2018 01:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Newcastle Evening Chronicle -The rail union has announced it will vote on industrial action over a pay dispute but "productive" talks have been held
  
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• Major Valleys road will be closed this weekend for roadworks

  03-02-2018 01:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  Wales Online -It is all part of the £800m upgrade of the A465 Heads of the Valleys road
  
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• Lord Adonis on East Coast Main Line: 'Government is bailing out millionaires'

  03-02-2018 01:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Newcastle Evening Chronicle -The Government are releasing Virgin and Stagecoach from their long-term commitments to run the franchise
  
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• John Radcliffe car park partly closed this weekend

  03-02-2018 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  Other Regional Press -PARKING will be significantly limited at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford this weekend.
  
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• Industry condemns video of drone close encounter with Frontier aircraft

  03-02-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aviation Industry-Kelsey AthertonThe unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry and hobbyists alike have been quick to condemn an alleged close encounter with commercial airliner.read more
  
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• HS2 station design and development partners announced

  03-02-2018 01:00 via railwaygazette.com
  Railway Gazette - UK: The design and development partners selected to undertake detailed design for the landmark...
  
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• HMS Queen Elizabeth sets sail for helicopter trials

  03-02-2018 01:00 via telegraph.co.uk
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• Has your car been damaged by a pothole? This is what you need to do to make a claim

  03-02-2018 01:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Motoring organisation says the number of accidents caused by potholes has increased
  
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• Hampshire rail company is one of the worst for passenger satisfaction

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailyecho.co.uk
  Other Regional Press -HAMPSHIREs principal train operating company has been ranked one of the worst in the country.
  
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• Government funding to upgrade 'overused' link road in Bicester

  03-02-2018 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  Other Regional Press - PLANS to improve a major trunk road through Bicester have been granted £6.7m government funding.
  
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• Furious parents told children are missing after school bus driver dropped them two miles away

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailyrecord.co.uk
  Daily Record -The primary school children, aged 5 and 6, were dropped at a bus stop two miles from their destination.
  
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• France army helicopters crash: At least five killed near Saint-Tropez

  03-02-2018 01:00 via telegraph.co.uk
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• End hospital car parking charges, demands senior Tory MP

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  Mail Online - Ministers should raid the overseas aid budget to end the stealth tax of hospital car parking charges, a senior Tory MP Rob Halfon demanded yesterday.
  
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• Electric VTOL air taxi raises $100m in Series B funding

  03-02-2018 01:00 via theengineer.co.uk
  Other News Sources - Joby Aviation, a secretive US startup developing an electric Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVOTL) air taxi, has raised $100m in Series B funding from companies including Intel and Toyota. The only artists impressions of the secretive vehicle date from 2015 (Credit: Joby Aviation) According to the California-based company, its four-passenger vehicle will be ableThe post Electric VTOL air taxi raises $100m in Series B funding appeared first on The Engineer.
  
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• Dublin council clamps down on abandoned bikes Subscription

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - A clampdown on abandoned bicycles is being planned by Dublin city council to free up parking space for cyclists in the capital.
  
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• Dodgy parking operators who fine the dead face ban Subscription

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thetimes.co.uk
  Times Online - New rules will be introduced to ban cowboy parking companies after operators tried to fine a dead person and a woman too short to read parking signs.
  
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• Design teams chosen for Birmingham's HS2 stations

  03-02-2018 01:00 via birminghampost.co.uk
  Birmingham Post - Architects who worked on Eden Project and Millennium Bridge among those who will design new stations in Curzon Street and Solihull
  
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• Crockey Hill A19 roadworks warning

  03-02-2018 01:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  The York Press - THE A19 will be down to a single lane at Crockey Hill on Saturday morning as roadworks push on.
  
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• Criticism of late-night flights at airport

  03-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A watchdog has found there was maladministration by a Stormont department over late-night flights at George Best Belfast City Airport.
  
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• Council to develop Crewe hub station HS2 masterplan following consultation

  03-02-2018 01:00 via crewechronicle.co.uk
  Crewe Chronicle -Second detailed consultation following government decision on Crewe Hub
  
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• Council 'should bite the bullet' and admit it made a mistake with High Street bottleneck

  03-02-2018 01:00 via thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
  Other Regional Press -TALKS have been taking place to beat a bottleneck for buses in Oxford High Street.
  
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• COMMENT: New Northern Rail fleet provides much-needed light at the end of the tunnel

  03-02-2018 01:00 via theboltonnews.co.uk
  Bolton News - Bolton News politics reporter Daniel Holland shares his thoughts after visiting Spain this week to see Northern Rails new fleet under construction...
  
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• Cash-strapped Brits hit at the pumps as petrol hikes to continue for three more months

  03-02-2018 01:00 via mirror.co.uk
  The Mirror -Drivers already pay 4p more for unleaded and 5p extra for diesel than in October - and the prices are set to rise further
  
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• Carillion collapse: UK puts up £100m to back Carillion contractor loans

  03-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - The British Business Bank will guarantee £100m lending to its contractors, the government says.
  
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• Bluestar launches new hospital bus route after First service axed

  03-02-2018 01:00 via dailyecho.co.uk
  Other Regional Press -BUS bosses and councillors came together to celebrate the launch of a new extended bus route.
  
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• Belfast City Airport late-night flight 'failures' criticised

  03-02-2018 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News - A watchdog finds against Stormont over late-night flights at George Best Belfast City Airport.
  
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• BA rolling out wifi on long-haul aircraft

  03-02-2018 01:00 via buyingbusinesstravel.com
  Buying Business Travel - Airline plans to connect 118 planes
  
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