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Monday, 12 November 2012

Cogitamus

• Award for Cogitamus highlights importance of public procurementCogitamus was honoured at the Public Affairs News Awards on 8 November 2012 when we were named as winners in the category Campaign of the Year – Private Sector for saving the Derby train factory. Receiving the award on behalf of our company and our team brought back to me the intensity of that campaign which consumed so much of our energy in the second half of 2011. Cogitamus Limited had been asked by the owner of the UK™s only remaining passenger train factory to coordinate a campaign for its survival following the¦More →

BBC News

• MPs prepare for fuel duty voteMPs are preparing to vote on plans to implement a 3p a litre increase in fuel duty which would take effect in January.

Financial Times

• HS2 design panel to guide lineTransport secretary to announceplan for experts in architecture, engineering, and transport, to work with local people and environmental groups
• Ryanair™s Aer Lingus remedies rejectedBrussels makes clear it will reject remedies package “ which airline™s chief executive described as a ˜radical™ “ to secure regulatory approval

The Guardian

• Vince Cable doubts viability of £150m BAE shipbuilding projectBusiness secretary says project “ which would safeguard 1,300 jobs at Portsmouth shipyard “ is 'not a runner' A £150m project that would guarantee shipbuilding at the threatened BAE Systems yard in Portsmouth and secure 1,300 jobs faces a struggle for government approval after the business secretary, Vince Cable, questioned its viability.The long-term future of the south coast site is under threat amid a review by BAE of its marine operations, with the historic Portsmouth facility thought by union and Whitehall sources to be most at risk. The yard has no orders beyond 2014, when it finishes wo...

The Herald

• Worrying rise in cyclists injured on Scotland's roadsThe number of cyclists and pedestrians seriously injured on Scotland's roads has risen sharply, putting ministers under mounting pressure to cut accident rates by investing in more safety measures.
• 'Irrational' road ruling rowCIVIL servants have been accused of acting "irrationally and unlawfully" in rejecting a bid by a major construction firm for a £350 million road maintenance contract.

The Scotsman

• Ministers get just 5/10 in CBI report on procurement PRIVATE-SECTOR companies have delivered a verdict of “needs improvement” on the UK government’s reform of how it procures contracts in the wake of the aborted West Coast mainline rail franchise, a new survey out today shows.

The Telegraph

• Letter reveals fears over West Coast bid process Fresh questions have emerged over the transport department’s handling of the West Coast rail bid after a senior official admitted members of a key committee may have failed to follow due process.
• Ban pointless road signs, says Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlinThe Transport Secretary says that road signs that clutter the countryside and state the obvious are to be banned.

Reuters News

• Cameron under pressure over crowded runwaysLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is coming under intense pressure from business leaders and airlines to end years of deadlock and decide whether to expand London's overstretched Heathrow airport - something that will infuriate local voters and some members of his own party.

London Evening Standard

• 'Half of cyclists knocked off bikes by vehicles in London', says surveyAlmost half of all cyclists in London have been knocked off their bicycle by a car, van or lorry, new figures reveal.

Sheffield Star

• Big rise in number of Sheffield bus passengersTHE NUMBER of people using the bus in Sheffield has risen by 17 per cent, according to the region’s biggest operator.
• Bus partnership is a big successTRANSPORT bosses say the new bus partnership has been a big success.

The York Press

• Crash cyclist talks for first time about amazing recovery A CYCLIST has spoken for the first time of her long road to recovery after suffering severe head injuries in an accident on a controversial bus lane. Georgina Steel said she suffered three brain bleeds after an accident with a bus on the lane in Fulford Road, and needed two operations to save her life.

Yorkshire Post

• Airport travellers dominate AA route finder searchesThe most popular destinations requested on the AA’s online route finder serve are for airports.
• Speed cameras to stay as bike death toll fallsMobile safety cameras could become a permanent feature on the roads of England’s largest county after a fall in the number of bikers’ deaths during a pilot scheme.
• Transport funding for North still losing out to LondonThe North-South divide in Government transport funding is growing wider still as a new analysis of Treasury public spending figures shows it has fallen in Yorkshire while rising in London.
• Chancellor under cosh over fuel duty riseCHANCELLOR George Osborne is under renewed pressure to abandon a planned increase in fuel duty, amid warnings that the rising price of petrol was putting household budgets under unprecedented pressure.

Bucks Free Press

• Former Mayor: 'Arriva contract should be revoked' BUS firm Arriva should have its contract revoked, says a former Mayor of High Wycombe.

Other Regional Press

• UK & World News: Osborne feels heat over fuel dutyThere is growing pressure on Chancellor George Osborne to abandon the Government's controversial 3p-a-litre increase in fuel duty planned for January.
• Bus services return to the roadsBUS users are being reminded that two services have returned to the roads.