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Sunday, 08 February 2009

BBC News

• New ghost ship heads to TeessideA former French aircraft carrier is due to arrive at a shipyard in Teesside to be broken up, despite fears that asbestos on board will harm workers.

The Observer

• Speed bumps to create green energy"Green" speed bumps that will generate electricity as cars drive over them are to be introduced on Britain's roads. The hi-tech "sleeping policemen" will power street lights, traffic lights and road signs in a pilot scheme in London that could be rolled out nationwide.

The Scotsman

• Abandoned Bugatti sells for £3mA car abandoned in a garage for 50 years has sold at auction for 3,479,000 euros (£3,043,293).

The Telegraph

• Snow: Britain braced for more snowfalls Britain is braced for more snowfalls as local authorities seek to calm fears that a national shortage of salt to treat roads will leave them hazardous for motorists.

Times Online

• Aircraft engine makers flying into a brighter futureVisitors to the Farnborough air show are used to loud noise, but this was different. A high-pitched buzz throbbed across the Hampshire airfield, prompting spectators to put down their Pimms and crane their necks at the aircraft soaring above them
• Heathrow case underminedAn independent parliamentary audit has called into question the government’s economic and environmental case for expanding Heathrow airport.
• Racing past: how the old models can speed green future Thierry Farges unplugged his gleaming electric car at the Paris exhibition centre yesterday, jumped in and sped off before a crowd of admirers.

Daily Record

• Teenager dead and three others hurt in road smashesA 16-YEAR-OLD boy has died and three other people been injured in two separate accidents on Scotland's roads last night

Mail Online

• The SS Grit Britain is on its way: Tons of road salt shipped here as more heavy snow is predicted After a week of chaos on the roads, stocks of road grit are becoming alarmingly low and urgent shipments from Europe have been ordered.

Journal Live

• Hoon won’t read riot act to rail firmsTransport Secretary Geoff Hoon has denied having to read the “riot act” to any train operator despite a senior official warning some face financial difficulties.

Wales Online

• Striking train drivers will cause rail chaosTravellers are being warned of railway chaos tomorrow because of an unofficial strike by train drivers.

Peterborough Telegraph

• Bus stop removed from clearway roadA council has been left red-faced after having to remove a newly-installed bus stop on a road near Ipswich where drivers weren't allowed to stop.

Railnews

• News: Poor weather conditions limit West Coast route services The continuing cold weather and snow conditions have forced two of the principal operators on the recently-modernised West Coast Main Line — Virgin Trains and London Midland — to operate restricted services today (Saturday, 7 February).

Other News Sources

• Steam power rolls into LondonThe Tornado, the first mainline steam locomotive to be built in this country for nearly five decades, steamed from Darlington to London's Kings Cross at the end of a week in which Britain's modern-day rail services have been severely disrupted
• Steam power returns to railwaysSteam power returns to railways
• More snow amid salt crisisMore snow is forecast as temperatures plunge, ice continues to make driving hazardous and councils warn that they are running out of salt to grit roads. Tom Clarke reports.