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• Could ‘Great British Railways’ finally build up a head of steam?

  24-02-2024 17:00
  
  The government is again trying to create a ‘guiding mind’ for UK train travel – and despite the delays and inertia, almost everyone wants itRail’s great zombie hope lurches on. Great British Railways, the future once unveiled by Boris Johnson – declared at times dead, or alive, or simply locked in stasis – came juddering back into the picture last week.The late arrival of a draft reform bill could, rail minister Huw Merriman claimed, still mean that plans for
  
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• Worst airlines for customer satisfaction revealed

  24-02-2024 01:00 via news.sky.com
  
  Sky News - The worst airlines for customer satisfaction have been revealed
  
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• Wizz Air named worst short-haul airline in Which? survey of UK passengers

  24-02-2024 01:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Independent - The Hungary-based airlines customer service and value for money disappointed for the second consecutive year
  
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• TUI increases luggage allowance for travellers so they have more room to pack 'home comforts'

  24-02-2024 01:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  Newcastle Evening Chronicle - A survey from TUI shows that almost half of UK travellers pack teabags when they go abroad, while others don't travel without their slippers
  
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• Thomas Woldbye, the Dane now charting Heathrows future

  24-02-2024 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Former Copenhagen airport head will need to smooth relations with airlines and make a decision on a third runway
  
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• The £2.7m transport interchange 'hardly anyone uses'

  24-02-2024 01:00 via walesonline.co.uk
  
  Wales Online - But Vale of Glamorgan Council has promised more bus and train services will follow the sole operator stopping there now
  
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• The North Wales 'road to nowhere' that could finally lead to pot of gold

  24-02-2024 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) - The road off the A5 has barely been used since it was built nearly 20 years ago
  
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• The best and worst airlines for 2024 named by Which? - Jet2 is No.1 for third time and BA is among the worst

  24-02-2024 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mail Online - BA was once so confident of its reputation, it used 'the world's favourite airline' in its advertising campaigns. But it has been voted among the worst airlines for 2024.
  
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• Red Sea crisis causes surge in container ship costs, warns CMA CGM

  24-02-2024 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - French group suffers Q4 losses as weak demand and lower freight rates last year bite
  
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• Queen Anne ship captain can't wait to be back at Cunard's 'spiritual home' Liverpool

  24-02-2024 01:00 via liverpoolecho.co.uk
  
  Liverpool Echo - Massive crowds are expected to gather in 100 days on June 3 for Queen Annes maiden call and Naming Ceremony
  
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• Oxford residents bemoan congestion near traffic filter trial

  24-02-2024 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Oxford residents have complained about vehicles blocking the road as work begins on a controversial traffic filter trial.
  
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• No wonder the retailers on this London road - once a favourite haunt of Nigella - are in despair . . . How draconian Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes have DEVASTATED this thriving street

  24-02-2024 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  Mail Online - Wandsworth Bridge Road used to be a destination shopping street, but has since fallen on hard times. Thirty out of the 77 commercial units are vacant - a whopping 39 per cent.
  
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• New car tax changes from April 1 will cost petrol and diesel drivers hundreds of pounds

  24-02-2024 01:00 via cambridge-news.co.uk
  
  Cambridge News - The new Vehicle Excise Duty rates will come into effect from April 1, 2024, and will hit some drivers harder than others
  
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• More traffic restrictions and new cycleway coming to Coventry city centre

  24-02-2024 01:00 via coventrytelegraph.net
  Other Regional Press - The proposals are set to be discussed at a council meeting this week
  
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• Manchester Airport to drop 100ml liquid rule for passengers

  24-02-2024 01:00 via dailypost.co.uk
  
  Daily Post (North Wales) - New security scanners are being brought in to allow passengers to carry more than 100ml of liquid on their flights
  
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• Major works to alter trains in Durham, Darlington, Yorkshire

  24-02-2024 01:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo - Network Rail engineers will be carrying out major upgrades to the East Coast Main Line between York and Newcastle in March.
  
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• Half of EV drivers also have a back-up petrol or diesel car for when they want to do longer journeys

  24-02-2024 01:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- Concerns about range anxiety and the charging infrastructure is why around half have a second car with a conventional engine.
  
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• Glasgow Council seeks £40bn with net zero investment team

  24-02-2024 01:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The Herald - Glasgow City Council has unveiled plans to seek private investment to fund the massive challenge of reducing the citys carbon emissions .
  
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• Glasgow airline Loganair unveils new chief executive

  24-02-2024 01:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The Herald - A former Wizz Air and easyJet executive has been appointed as the new chief of a Scottish airline.
  
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• DVLA reveals how many classic cars over 40 yearsold are still on the road today

  24-02-2024 01:00 via thisismoney.co.uk
  
  This is Money- Around one in eight classic cars - motors over 40 years of age - still owned in Britain today are declared off the road by their keepers. Here's how the numbers breakdown.
  
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• Driving law experts want to make this change to make the roads safer

  24-02-2024 01:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Mail - It's prompted calls for motorway driving to become a mandatory part of all driving lessons.
  
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• Coast Road bus lane plan flatly denied as Newcastle City Council announces £6.5m upgrades

  24-02-2024 01:00 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Transport chiefs insist they have no plans to install a bus lane on a section of the Coast Road
  
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• Bridgnorth Cliff Railway to offer locals free trips when attraction finally reopens next month

  24-02-2024 01:00 via expressandstar.com
  
  Wolverhampton Express and Star - The boss of Bridgnorth's Cliff Railway has pledged to give the town's residents free travel when the attraction finally reopens next month as a 'thank you' for their support over the many months it has been closed.
  
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• Bakerloo Line extension takes one step closer as £8bn plans unveiled

  24-02-2024 01:00 via cityam.com
  
  City AM - Amongst the proposals include the extension of the Docklands Light Railway to Thamesmead, and a West London Overground line, as well as a second crossrail linking the south west and north east.
  
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• Announcement about funds from HS2 cancellation to be made

  24-02-2024 01:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  Northern Echo - On Monday, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to reveal how more than £2bn of reallocated HS2 funding will go to local authorities across the North.
  
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