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Sunday, 05 February 2012

The Telegraph

• HS2: unaffordable, unecological and unwanted I wanted to weep this morning, and not from the cold. It was a perfect English winter sunrise, stark, bright and icy, and it found me in one of the loveliest spots in my constituency: Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire.

Mail Online

• Millions urged to miss work to avoid one-hour Olympic queues on the TubeFirms have been told they should send staff on holiday or let them work from home to ease the strain on London’s Underground as millions of visitors flood into the capital during the Games.

Birmingham Mail

• Spanish firm CAF named as preferred bidder for £40m Midland Metro contractA PREFERRED bidder for the next generation of multi-million pound trams on the Midland Metro has been announced.

Edinburgh Evening News

• Britain today: Speed may be behind train crashA FREIGHT train engine which derailed on the west coast main line at Bletchley may have been going too fast, Network Rail has said.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Misery goes on for train travellers after derailmentRail passengers were continuing to face delays today after a freight train derailment on the main line to London.
• Dozens of new jobs due in Solus repair firm move to WednesburyDozens of new jobs are to be created in the Midlands as an accident repair firm relocates and a new fleet of Midland Metro trams will be built in the region.

Other Regional Press

• Elland residents call for Elland Railway Station to re-openCALLS have been made for a railway station for Elland.