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Sunday, 10 February 2013

BBC News

• Free rail travel offer after delaysSeason ticket holders who were hit by delays and cancellations due to driver shortages are offered free travel by London Midland.

ITV News

• Bombardier in talks with Transport for London over deal worth over £100mDerby train-maker, Bombardier, looks set to win a multi-million pound order to build dozens of new carriages for the rail network in London.

The Herald

• In profit and 1m trips a year by 2025: Transport Scotland steams into Borders rail debateThe controversial new £350 million Borders Railway will make a profit and exceed one million return trips a year within a decade of opening in 2015, Transport Scotland claims.

The Scotsman

• Owners write off derailed locomotive due to costsA LOCOMOTIVE which ploughed down an embankment in the Highlands after a landslide is to be cut up because it is too expensive to recover.

The Telegraph

• Stelios sets sights on easyJet chairmanSir Stelios Haji-Iaonnou is to reopen his battle with the board of easyJet as he prepares to launch another attack in the long-running war of words with the airline he founded.
• Aer Lingus chief - we’re worth more Lingus could be worth more than €850m (£719m) if it remains independent, the airline’s chief has suggested, as European competition authorities prepare to rule on Ryanair’s €694m bid for Ireland’s national carrier.
• Qatar chief joins Heathrow boardThe head of Qatar Airways who has said the prospects for the UK economy would be “catastrophic” without a third runway at Heathrow has joined the board of the airport’s parent company.

Mail Online

• Thousands of Britons are stranded in America after flights to Britain are grounded as snow batters the US east coastA massive storm has dumped nearly two feet of snow in New England and hurricane-force winds have battered the eastern states and Canada.
• Axed: TV ads that taught generations of children to cross the road safelyCampaigns featuring characters such as Tufty the Squirrel (pictured) have helped save thousands of lives but budget cuts have forced the Department of Transport to ditch adverts.

This is Money

• Commuters renting mid-week digs to dodge sky-high rail faresGill Jones had been used to spending up to five hours a day commuting to and from her home in Norwich - at a cost of £7,000 a year. Now she rents in the week and saves £3,000.
• Know your rights on an Easter flightAirline passengers will jet off on their Easter holidays knowing that it will be easier to get compensation for delays and cancellations after a new European ruling. The MacDonalds (pictured) endured long delays.

Derby Telegraph

• Derby Telegraph commented Bombardier's step towards major deal for new carriagesDERBY train-maker Bombardier is on the verge of landing a multi-million-pound deal to provide more rolling stock for London.

Edinburgh Evening News

• Edinburgh city bypass: Rail tunnel plan unveiledA HUGE tunnel is to be built beneath the City Bypass this summer – as work on the £300m Borders Railway gets under way.

Journal Live

• Northumberland villagers draw up petition to save bus serviceVILLAGERS who fear bus cutbacks may isolate them have drawn up a 102-name petition to try to save their route.

Sheffield Star

• Union expresses safety fears on railway line maintenanceRAIL union RMT says staffing cuts are affecting maintenance of the East Coast main line track, which passes through Doncaster.

Sheffield Telegraph

• Bus centenary is just the ticket in SheffieldTHE centenary of the first buses on Sheffield roads - between Broomhill and Lodge Moor - is being marked this month.

Western Daily Press

• Somerset Guardian published £2,000 donation helps keep Wellow Community Bus on the roadA community bus service has been boosted by a donation from a major retailer.

Other Regional Press

• Buses axed as Neath Port Talbot Council sees transport grant cut BUSES in Neath Port Talbot are being axed in the worst round of cuts
• Fight continues to save village bus routeA LAST ditch attempt to save a bus route through the village of Stainsacre from the chop has failed at the final hurdle – but there is still hope.
• Octogenarian finally retires after 65 years working for the Oxford Bus Company FOR Arthur Pearson driving a bus was not just a job, it was his life.
• East Grinstead Courier and Observer published Building work at East Grinstead Station is setting off car alarmsGROUND-SHAKING vibrations from building work at East Grinstead Station are setting off car alarms – to the irritation of...
• Crawley News published Rumours of closure of Crawley Dial A Ride 'not true'THE chief executive of a charity supporting elderly and vulnerable people across Crawley has allayed fears its Dial A Ride service...
• Essex Chronicle published Chelmsford traders bemused by new double-yellow linesBEMUSED traders are scratching their heads after the council painted a double-yellow line on their road – just weeks after...
• Faster bus link from the Holme Valley into Huddersfield as part of wider changes to bus services in the ValleyTHERE will be a fast bus from Holmfirth to Huddersfield starting soon.
• Anger at revamped bus services in Weymouth PASSENGERS are up in arms over a shake-up of bus services in Weymouth.