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GIP and 3i frontrunners to buy Edinburgh Airport
The asset, valued at £400m-£600m, has also attracted the interest of JP Morgan, which is understood to have sent representatives from its infrastructure fund to the Scottish capital last month to sound out potential partners. Stagecoach boss Sir Brian Souter has ruled himself out of bidding in the first round, although he has left the door open to involvement at a later stage through his Souter Investments vehicle.
Vauxhall fears rise as GM sees red
THE scale of losses at Vauxhall and Opel will be revealed when parent company General Motors reports fourth-quarter results on Thursday.
Corporate Olympic ticket packages costing £20,000 will let fans use VIP lanes in violation of rules
Rich businessmen are being offered the chance to 'buy' access to VIP road lanes during the London Olympics for £20,000 a head, an undercover investigation has revealed.
David Cameron and Prince Andrew visit new Ilford Crossrail academy
As part of National Apprenticeship Week, both men separately visited Crossrail’s new £13million Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy (TUCA), in Lugg Approach, Ilford.
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BBC News
- Parents in school bus charges rowParents in a Wrexham community oppose council changes which could force them to start paying for school bus transport.
- Arrest following M4 crash delaysA man is arrested after a two-car collision which briefly closed part of the M4 in south Wales and led to a woman being taken to hospital.
- Final farewell to airport founderMore than 600 people attend a thanksgiving service for a businessman and pilot killed in an air crash in Powys.
The Scotsman
- Transport minister Keith Brown shuns rail for chaffeur-driven carHE URGES drivers to leave their car behind and use public transport – but prefers the ministerial limo himself.Official figures show transport minister Keith Brown has travelled by train just four times since being appointed a year ago, while making 226 journeys by chauffeur-driven government car.
The Telegraph
- GIP and 3i frontrunners to buy Edinburgh AirportThe asset, valued at £400m-£600m, has also attracted the interest of JP Morgan, which is understood to have sent representatives from its infrastructure fund to the Scottish capital last month to sound out potential partners. Stagecoach boss Sir Brian Souter has ruled himself out of bidding in the first round, although he has left the door open to involvement at a later stage through his Souter Investments vehicle.
Daily Express
- Vauxhall fears rise as GM sees redTHE scale of losses at Vauxhall and Opel will be revealed when parent company General Motors reports fourth-quarter results on Thursday.
Daily Record
- Police officer guilty of careless driving after clipping car at 121mph on motorwayA TRAFFIC cop who knocked off a driver’s wing mirror while doing 121mph in a terrifying incident on a motorway has been convicted of careless driving.
Mail Online
- Pictured for the first time: Captain Calamity's reaction to Costa Concordia disaster from inside cruise liner's bridgeDramatic pictures have emerged from the bridge of the Costa Concordia showing the dithering reaction of the ship's captain in the minutes after he had recklessly steered it onto rocks.
- Corporate Olympic ticket packages costing £20,000 will let fans use VIP lanes in violation of rulesRich businessmen are being offered the chance to 'buy' access to VIP road lanes during the London Olympics for £20,000 a head, an undercover investigation has revealed.
This is Money
- Revealed: The claims staff who use 'dodgy' whiplash cases to get £100 bonusesThe revelation is the latest to highlight the true extent of the whiplash merry-go-round that has been pinpointed as a cause of spiralling car insurance costs.
Birmingham Mail
- Rare creatures at risk if HS2 passes through Water Orton, claim wildlife groupRARE creatures, including otter and water vole, are under threat following claims the HS2 high-speed rail link will cut through Birmingham’s most important green oasis.
Journal Live
- £3.2m Newcastle International Airport extension is on scheduleBUSINESS travellers will soon be able to breeze through airport security checks thanks to a £3.2m extension of Newcastle International Airport.
Nottingham Evening Post
- Nottingham Post commented Red Flyer and Skylink bus services compete for airport...TWO bus companies have launched new services to connect Nottingham with East Midlands Airport.
Sheffield Star
- Fixing borough™s roads would cost £135 millionDONCASTER would need £135 million to bring its crumbling roads into an ‘acceptable’ state, say officials.
The York Press
- Scheme to boost cycling hailed a success A SCHEME to encourage residents of York to use their bikes more has generated œvery promising results, a new report has found.
This Is Local London Network
- Paper aeroplanes set to swoop on Kingston roundabout A new sculpture that celebrates Kingston™s aviation heritage has been given a flying start with a grant from the Mayor of London.
Carlisle News & Star
- Tread carefully when choosing tyres to stay safe, warn Cumbria police Cumbria police warned mixing winter tyres with ordinary ones on cars could be lethal after more than 100 crashes reported in freezing conditions this week.
East Anglian Daily Times
- Suffolk: Rail commuters faced with delaysTrain services are being delayed by up to 40 minutes today on the Ipswich to London line and also between Ipswich and Felixstowe.
Other Regional Press
- Airport™s future securedDURHAM Tees Valley Airport has a new owner.
- Boris Johnson pushing for control of London's suburban railwaysMayor of London Boris Johnson is calling on the government to hand over control of the capital's suburban railways to City Hall. But with the mayoral election looming in May, his opponents say he's had years to do this. Under the proposals train companies such as Southeastern, whose franchise comes up for renewal in 2014, would be integrated into Transport for London. Mr Johnson claims this would save millions of pounds and give passengers more reliable and frequent services, safer and cleaner stations, more staff and simpler fares
- David Cameron and Prince Andrew visit new Ilford Crossrail academyAs part of National Apprenticeship Week, both men separately visited Crossrail’s new £13million Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy (TUCA), in Lugg Approach, Ilford.
- Commuters say 'good riddance' to UK's worst rail operator"Sorry this card arrived late, this was due to overrunning engineering works on this pen." This was just one of the many farewell messages from Brentwood's frustrated, angry and out-of-pocket commuters as they signed off to the outgoing National Express East Anglia (NXEA), shown to be the worst rail operator in the UK in a recent survey.
- Police car crash closes roadA crash involving a police car closed a road for more than three hours this afternoon.
Aviation Industry
- Delta will pay employees $264 million in profit sharingWith so much doom and gloom economically the last few years, it's good to see a bright spot that includes thousands of Minnesotans.
Other News Sources
- Car fire shuts major Winchester road ONE of the main roads into Winchester was closed for nearly an hour after a car burst into flames.
- Airbus unveils new air traffic management technologyAirbus has unveiled a four dimensional optimised Air Traffic Management (ATM) technology called I-4D (Initial-4D). The main benefits of I-4D are a significant reduction of fuel burn and CO2 ...
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