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24 hours beneath the Heathrow Airport flight path

Reporter Divya Talwar spends 24 hours with a family living beneath the Heathrow flight path, for the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

Stagecoach unveils contactless bus travel plans

Stagecoach announces plans to bring in contactless payment technology on all of its UK regional bus services by the end of 2018.

ScotRail announce improvement plan after performance target missed

PASSENGERS can expect carriage doors to shut 15 seconds before the train is due to depart as Scotrail introduce a raft of measures to improve punctuality after missing one of their contractual targets.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's delight as 10m bus hopper tickets are sold

More than 10 million "Hopper" journeys have been made on London's buses since the new fare was introduced six weeks ago.

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  • Tesla releases video of fully autonomous Model X electric carVideo follows announcement that all Tesla cars built from now on will contain components required for self-drivingTesla announced on Wednesday that from now on all of its electric cars will be built with the components required to turn them into fully autonomous vehicles at a later date. Now chief executive, Elon Musk, has released a video showing what that really means.The video shows a Tesla Model X driving out of a garage, picking up a human driver – who is required to be in the driving seat for the car to legally self-drive in the US – and then driving itself around some public roads, navi...
  • Stop obsessing about planes and trains, and start using roads better | Simon JenkinsMinisters are dazzled by the idea of a third Heathrow runway and HS2. If only they were as excited about car travelInfrastructure is the new kale. It is the latest fad on the block. Every politician wants more of it. To Labour and Tory, TUC and CBI, infrastructure is the acceptable face of borrowing and spending. All will be well if we just pour billions into concrete. But for what? Related: HS2: the zombie train that refuses to die | Simon Jenkins Continue reading...
  • Bike lock developed that makes thieves immediately vomitCrowdfunded creator of SkunkLock says device emits special smelly formula when it is being cut A man approaches a bicycle, handheld electric saw at the ready. He powers it on, starts to drill, and is shot in the face with a noxious spray that makes him vomit uncontrollably. This is the dream of the inventors of SkunkLock.“Basically we were fed up with thefts,” said Daniel Idzkowski from San Francisco, one of the inventors of SkunkLock. “The real last straw was we had a friend park his very expensive electric bike outside a Whole Foods, and then went to have lunch and chat. We went out and his ...

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  • London City Airport appoints former I.T. guru as Chief Operating Officer London City Airport has announced the appointment of a new Chief Operating Officer, following the departure of Darren Grover.  Alison FitzGerald, who joined the airport in 2014 as Chief Information Officer, has been appointed internally as Grover’s successor and takes on responsibility for all operational areas of the business across the terminal and airfield. She will also retain responsibility for technology. Alison was previously CIO at the Financial Times, and spent 16 years at Abbey/Santander. She has been a Governor on the Board of the University of Bedfordshire since November...

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  • WYCA calls for extra Northern and TPE servicesLocal leaders have called for Northern and TransPennine Express (TPE) to increase the number of services they run on top of existing commitments in their franchise agreements. In April, Arriva took over responsibility for the Northern franchise, while First Group took sole control of the...
  • Atkins consortium wins contract to remodel Leeds station ahead of HS2The contract to redesign Leeds station to prepare it for HS2 has been awarded to a consortium of design, engineering and project management consultants led by Atkins. The group will design a blueprint to deliver planned improvements to Leeds station, now also known as the Yorkshire Hub...
  • Southern promises to restore cancelled services by end of monthSouthern has promised to fully restore the services it had to cancel in the summer by the end of October, it has been revealed. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), Southern’s parent company, announced in July that it was cancelling 341 services a day to try to gain control of unpredictable...
  • Manchester Victoria roof collapse 'isn't good enough' as MP calls for inquiryThe construction process for the roof at Manchester Victoria wasn’t “good enough” after it collapsed, a local MP has said. Rain water leaked through part of the roof, filling one of the plastic panels underneath and leading it to collapse at about 4.30pm on 18 October. The...
  • Greater Anglia and NR promise measures to tackle autumn leaf fallGreater Anglia, with help from Network Rail, is investing in new equipment and introducing a revised timetable to reduce the impact of autumn leaf fall on rail services. Leaves on the track at this time of year can form a mulch, which is then compressed and hardened by train wheels until it is...

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  • Major improvement plan for struggling ScotRail The ScotRail Alliance has unveiled a plan to improve performance, after managing director Phil Verster had described the task of upgrading the network while running trains day-to-day as like �performing open heart surgery while doing a marathon�. The new plan includes �8 million for asset improvements, �specifically tailored� upgrades for key parts of the network such as Edinburgh and the Borders, Lanarkshire and Tayside, and targeted work on rolling stock to deal with the most common faults.

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  • Alitalia switches to Sabre IT systemItalian flag carrier Alitalia has completed a major IT upgrade that involved switching its reservations system to a new provider, the airline said Oct. 19. read more

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