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Monday 30th June, 2003
BBC
Train
time woes to drag on
Villagers
rally against runways [Stansted]
Financial Times *
Rail
chiefs say £58bn needed to run system
'Maglev'
train suffers cancellation blow
Guardian
Regional
flights at risk if Heathrow runway refused, Darling warned
Independent
Network
Rail to cut 2,000 jobs
Telegraph
Sacking
can't be justified, says Connex
Treat
for train spotters [Yorkshire]
Times
Build
Heathrow runway or else, warn airlines
Ultimatum
over Railtrack
Sunday 29th June, 2003
BBC
Connex
in running for franchise
'Shocked'
Connex mulls next move
Rail job
cuts 'expected'
Observer
UK
transport crisis deterring investors
Birds
ground plans for a new London airport
Solar
aircraft heralds revolution in the sky
Kick
out the fat controllers [comment]
Get
back on track [leader]
Sunday Telegraph
Connex
was 'non-compliant' says PwC
Basher
Bowker of the SRA
Sunday Times
Network
Rail faces £60bn repair bill
Rail
supremo rules out return to state control
Tobacco
boss to fly in at BA
Air
links ready for take-off [Scotland]
Buses
to use hard shoulder to ease Dublin congestion
EasyJet:
‘No profit in coming to Dublin’
Aer
Lingus scraps South Africa plans
Saturday 28th June, 2003
BBC
'Shocked'
Connex considers options
Off the
rails
Rail job
cuts 'expected'
Financial Times *
Connex
sacked for going off the financial rails
Guardian
French
line misses the connection
Independent
Connex
stripped of rail franchise as SRA loses faith
Capercaillie
puts a spoke in the wheels of mountain bikers
First
Group abandons SRA legal challenge
Connex:
Nobody should be charged for an experience so awful
Power
lines blamed for widespread chaos
Telegraph
Connex
sacked by watchdog
Connex
'shot to encourage others'
Finances
at centre of Connex dismissal
Withdrawn
from service [leader]
Times
Renationalisation
threat to failing train firms as regulator gets tough
Connex
pays the price for its incompetence
Rail
chief boosts his empire with a brutal coup
Passengers
have little hope of a better railway
We
apologise for the late running of this service ... [graphic]
Network
Rail close to £4bn financing
FirstGroup
drops SRA challenge
Friday 27th June, 2003
Financial Times *
Nats
warns against new airport in south-east
Guardian
Renault
Espace tops Euro poll for safety
Railroaded
[letter - Virgin Trains]
Independent
Technician
'lied over faulty rail check'
Telegraph
Network
Rail to cut 2,000 jobs
Times
Carmakers
have blind spot for pedestrians
Motorcycle
deaths rise
Thursday 26th June, 2003
BBC
[Newquay]
Airport could be expanded
Stagecoach
drives profits up
Financial Times *
EU
paves way for emissions trading
Guardian
Virgin
Trains in line for aid
New
action plan fights fine dodgers
Independent
Virgin
train subsidy soars to £282m
Telegraph
Souter
drives past private stop
Times
Seven
more years of train delays
Stagecoach
to bid for new Greater Western franchise
First
Group the operator to beat
London Evening Standard
Tube
crash was 'waiting to happen'
Comment:
Central line failure
Wednesday 25th June, 2003
BBC
Cause
of
Tube crash revealed
City's
plea for London air link [Liverpool]
Drivers
face mobile phone ban
Financial Times *
Research
unit calls for end to clean fuel tax breaks
BA
sets October date for Concorde's final landing
Nations
in push on greenhouse gases forum
Guardian
Fines
for drivers using mobiles
BA
flags list of final resting places for Concorde fleet
Swiss
cuts jobs and planes
Independent
Drivers
who use mobiles face fines of up to £1,000
BA
may keep Concorde to fly on 'special occasions'
Telegraph
Mobile
phone fine
Declan
Ryan resigns from Ryanair
Times
Drivers
facing ban on hand-held mobiles
Network
Rail accounts to be investigated
I'm
in the car! [leader]
London Evening Standard
TUC
backs airport expansion plans
Virgin
wants new Heathrow runway
Tuesday 24th June, 2003
BBC
Long delays
for rail travellers
Row over
rail bosses' bonuses
BA spurns
fresh Concorde bid
Guardian
Air
traffic stress soars
Independent
Network
Rail directors given big bonuses despite worsening service
Telegraph
Bonus
for worse train times than Railtrack
Councillor
caught on camera
Times
Air
traffic controller warnings ‘ignored’
Rail
bosses lower bonus targets
EasyJet
flies higher on hopes for update
Rail
fare rise [letter]
Monday 23rd June, 2003
BBC
BA spurns
fresh Concorde bid
Guardian
Virgin
attacks 'Concorde sabotage'
Telegraph
Eurostar
solution [airports]
Virgin
bitter as Concorde dream fades
Times
E
& Y paid senior Railtrack engineer £700,000 to stay
Sunday 22nd June, 2003
Independent on Sunday
The
London literati wage war on the road hump
Observer
'Green'
cars fail environment test
Sunday Telegraph
Money
down the train [Network Rail]
Branson
wants Concordes
Sunday Times
Railtrack
boss given £700,000 ‘golden handcuffs’ after failure
Analyst
warns of passenger decline at Ryanair
Saturday 21st June, 2003
BBC
New patrols
for motorways
Drivers 'multi-task'
behind wheel
Alstom
halts UK train production
Trains
resume on fire-hit line
Financial Times *
Alstom
to shed 700 jobs at train factory
Guardian
Alstom
to halt UK train making
Jarvis
keeps Potters Bar track work
Independent
Decision
to reappoint Jarvis for maintenance at Potters Bar is 'insult to the dead'
Alstom
ends train building and puts 1,000 jobs at risk
British
motorists warned over French road law crackdown
Telegraph
Jam
busters patrol
Times
Cunning
plan from Network Rail is shunted into siding
Jambuster
force to patrol the highways
Friday 20th June, 2003
BBC
Fire
closes main rail line [Berkshire]
Air link
plan triggers row [Scottish Executive subsidy]
Guardian
Passengers
condemn 4% rail fare rises
Independent
Rail
passengers to pay above-inflation fare rises next year
Telegraph
Rail
fares unfair
Times
Rail
season tickets will go up and up and up
How
airport protesters hit turbulence [Stansted]
Thursday 19th June, 2003
BBC
Fare rises for
rail commuters
'Tougher'
crash sentences sought [N Ireland]
MPs
join airport debate [Plymouth]
Telegraph
Network
Rail fees cost taxpayers £70 million
Wednesday 18th June, 2003
Financial Times *
Brown
aide backs London toll as model for regions
Guardian
Global
air slowdown hits home
Underpass
en route for building award
Independent
Darling
says rail cuts will improve reliability
Mushy
peas jam on the A1
Telegraph
Motorist
travels at 157mph
Rail
firm wins right to see bid details
Times
First
Group wins battle with SRA on bid refusal
Deutsche
BA may expand into Europe
BA
struggles to gain altitude
Road
pricing [letter]
Tuesday 17th June, 2003
BBC
Rail records
another dismal year
Rail fares rise
but services cut
£9bn
upgrade for west coast line
Strike
threat over Tube camera
Guardian
Rail
fares set to rise as complaints go up and services fail to improve
Independent
Derailed:
How transport has become Labour's most spectacular failure
Derailed:
The wrong lines
Taxpayers
to bail out Europe's most expensive toll road [Skye Bridge]
Rail
services get worse as one in five trains runs late
Telegraph
Less
is more [rail]
SRA
blames operators for blocking rail system
Inter-city
services should look to Beeching rather than Stephenson
Times
Passengers
to get fewer trains at higher fares
Busiest
lines may get fewer trains [graphic]
Massive
airports spending exposes BAA to ratings cut
Passengers
accuse BA over prices
London Evening Standard
AA
calls for congestion charge audit
Monday 16th June, 2003
BBC
Rail improvement
plans to set targets
Call
for UK congestion charge
Votes
set on regional assemblies
Underground
idea for Birmingham
Lorry
protest over landfill site
Financial Times *
Pricing
'could raise road costs but cut congestion'
Driving
Deutsche Bahn to privatisation
Prescott
go-ahead to devolve regions
Guardian
Network
Rail scheme offers executives £2.7m incentive
Independent
Traffic
'will increase 25% in seven years'
Cycling
'causes thousands of men to be impotent'
Airbus
and Boeing stick with forecasts despite downturn
Telegraph
Road
tolls would 'cut costs'
[London]
Traffic charge an 'economic failure'
Motown
fears for Ford
Times
Road
tolls 'only way' to control traffic growth
Assemblies
in North will lead to local infighting
Dubai
airline poised to unveil massive £9bn aircraft order
Environmental
terror group targets Ford boss
Sunday 15th June, 2003
BBC
'Impotence
risk' to cyclists
Protest
over Gatwick expansion
Airbus boost
for thousands
Safety
plea after two biker deaths
Independent
UK
rail fares highest in Europe, and rising
Cycling?
But I'm far too young to die
Observer
12-lane
freeways to ease crisis on roads
The
super-highway solution to keep Britain on the move
Transport
figures that don't add up
Sunday Telegraph
Bridleway
racetracks
Cycling
bad for sex life
A
burning issue for Britain [CO2 cuts]
Fat
cat pay deal for rail chiefs
Sunday Times
Plane
noise nuisance set to soar
Rail
chiefs in line for £2.7m bonus
Women
rev up for illegal car racing
Saturday 14th June, 2003
BBC
German
rail 'to shed 40,000 jobs'
Financial Times *
Court
review of rail franchise to begin
Guardian
Anger
at go-ahead for 'slave pay' on ferries and liners
California
guns for gas-guzzling SUVs
Independent
Blair
accused of sidelining transport in 'clumsy' shake-up
Telegraph
BT
to expand net links
Times
Cameras
curtail speeding drivers
Schools
urged to start the day at 8am
...
but signs of recovery at Heathrow
Road
pricing [letter]
Friday 13th June, 2003
BBC
Darling
takes up Scots role
Sars hit
airlines 'more than war'
Guardian
Congestion
charge in cash crisis
Drunk
driver who killed 3 gets 10 years
British
Midland to cut one-third of workforce
Independent
Congestion
charge hit by drivers avoiding zone
Telegraph
BMI
axes 1,500 jobs to survive
Jarvis
profits full steam ahead
Times
Fares
to rise after congestion charge success
No
escape for EU drivers who dodge holiday fines
BAA
accused of abusing its monopoly
Jarvis
expects to get £146m profit from Tube Lines
London Evening Standard
Congestion
scheme faces shortfall
Hit
squad will tackle London gridlock
Thursday 12th June, 2003
BBC
Crash
motorway partially reopens
Row
over airport car ban [Newcastle]
Street
lights go solar [Cornwall]
Oil price
leaps on supply fears
Swansea
airport row takes off
Guardian
US
gas guzzlers drive up oil prices
Independent
Two
die in car plunge on to railway track
Five
killed as army transporter jackknifes on M1
Enemy
at the gate? [school run]
Telegraph
FirstGroup
goes to High Court
Times
Five
die as transporter ploughs across M1
Two
killed in crash on to rail line
London Evening Standard
New
airports 'will blight 135,000 lives'
Mobile
speed cameras arrive
Wednesday 11th June, 2003
BBC
Mobile
cameras target 'hotspots' [London]
'Yank
Tank' under fire [Humvees for sale]
[Richmond]
Park blocks scenic rat run
Guardian
Increased
air traffic noise could hit 600,000 people
Ryanair
chief's annual sell-off raises timely £17m for wedding
Decongesting
Britain [leader]
Independent
Ryanair
chief sells £17m of shares
Telegraph
Air
travel noise misery
Pay
as you drive plan
Ryanair's
O'Leary nets £17m
BAA
chief collects £3.4m pot
Times
BAA
chief calls for simplified regulatory system
TBI
makes the case to expand Luton airport
London Evening Standard
LES
transport archive
Tuesday 10th June, 2003
BBC
UK flights
grow despite scares
Telegraph
'Staggered'
school hours
Stagecoach
takes the £176m road away from Hong Kong
Times
Stagecoach
takes a trip away from Hong Kong
Monday 9th June, 2003
Guardian
Motorists
may face rush-hour charging
Guernsey
buys local airline in £6m deal
Independent
School
run drivers face peak-time road tolls
Telegraph
New
congestion charges planned
Let-off
for car insurance dodgers
Ridgeway
ban sought
Times
School-run
drivers face shock on road pricing
Old
glass to go for road resurfacing
London Evening Standard
Protesters
march against Heathrow plan
Bid
to improve tube station
Sunday 8th June, 2003
BBC
Rush
hour road tolls loom
Bus
drivers go on strike [S Yorkshire]
March
against proposed runway [Heathrow]
Observer
National
airlines set to fly the flag into the sunset
Can
Ryanair soar higher?
School
run tolls to cut roads chaos
Sunday Telegraph
Satellite
tolls
Times
Ministers
plan nationwide road charges after London success
Disabled
set to 'stand tall' in new wheelchair
Ken
comes clean: road charging hurts [comment]
Ryanair
reveals Buzz’s true cost
Soaring
costs will clip Ryanair wings
Easyjet
collects by passing Go figures
Airline
industry flies towards a great shakeout
Saturday 7th June, 2003
BBC
Mail trains
to be scrapped
Stagecoach
sells US buses
Guardian
How
to put Network Rail back on track
Independent
Congestion
charge has cut jams by 40 per cent in first three months, says Livingstone
Telegraph
Stagecoach
deal speeds US exit
Times
Accident
spurred family to design new safety helmet
EasyJet
loses title to Ryanair
The
cruel truth is, the world has left the train behind [comment]
Friday 6th June, 2003
BBC
Mail
trains to be scrapped
Man
chopped down speed trap
Brussels
wins air power
Ryanair
perfects budget flying
Draft
Stonehenge plans published
Financial Times *
Number
of cars cut 40% by London toll
Royal
Mail drops 'slow and costly' rail deliveries
Guardian
End
of the line for night mail
A
message no mail train would carry
Charging
speeds up London 37%
UK
gives in over 'open skies'
Independent
Fury
at huge 'outer M25' being built by stealth
Telegraph
£4000
speed camera fine
Times
Heritage
fears at £193m road scheme [Stonehenge]
Isle
of Man ferry set for £150m sale to Montagu
In
the fast lane on the Irish Sea
EU
takes over 'open skies' talks with US
London Evening Standard
South
east will be L.A. of Europe [M25]
Tube
handover confirmed
Thursday 5th June, 2003
BBC
Child car seats
'fail' safety tests
Bid
to end Tube strike threat
Airline
aims to plug BA gap [Newquay]
Blow for
air traffic service
KLM despairs
at 'lousy' business
Financial Times *
EU
set to clear way for open skies deal
Guardian
Drunken
teacher's air outrages
Independent
Train
drivers threaten strike over 'dangerous' hours
Telegraph
Child
car seats failing
Aslef
anger grows at rail authority
Times
Coach
drivers 'put lives at risk'
Brakes
go on car sales worldwide
Firms
reap rewards of booking trips online
London Evening Standard
Drivers
desert C-charge London
Tube
pay deal 'will end strikes'
Central
line failure [comment]
Wednesday 4th June, 2003
BBC
Mayor
scrutinises Tube pay-offs
EasyJet
rapped for confusing ads
Guardian
Black
cabs will stay as capital's star turn
Rail
union lays Labour link on the line
Railtrack
was much worse [letter]
Independent
Ryanair
margins under threat from 10% cut in airfares
Telegraph
Ryanair
aims to leave BA in slipstream
BAA
surges 3.8pc despite Sars and terror threats
Times
Ryanair
alert hits shares
BAA
boosts guards at airports
Eurostar's
priorities
London Evening Standard
No
fat-cat pay-offs for tube bosses
Tuesday 3rd June, 2003
BBC
Ryanair
'to be bigger than BA'
Europe strikes
disrupt UK flights
BA sells
German airline
Guardian
Network
Rail 'out of control'
BA
takes flight from Germany
Airlines
seek removal of foreign ownership restrictions
Independent
Regulator
lambasts Network Rail
Telegraph
Network
Rail attacked for £12bn overspend
Arriva
probe into Accident Group claims
BA
nets Eu1 for German subsidiary
Times
BA
pays £37m to offload subsidiary
Regulator
attacks rail spending
Urban
driving [letter]
London Evening Standard
Underground
blamed for derailment
Monday 2nd June, 2003
BBC
Runway
'risk' to Gatwick safety
Tube
crash raises 'real concerns'
Financial Times *
Derailment
report questions Tube safety
Taxpayers
face £40m Tube bill over closure of Central line
Guardian
Protesters
at war over airport plans
Independent
'Make
do and mend' worker is blamed for Potters Bar crash
Times
Assessing
aircraft noise and needs [letters]
Port
of London profits double
London Evening Standard
Gatwick
runways threaten safety
Sunday 1st June, 2003
BBC
Hundreds
stranded by rail hitch [WCML]
'Crusher'
threat to fine dodgers
Sunday Telegraph
EU
to allocate Heathrow slots
Where
will BMI slot in?
Sunday Times
Ryanair
trounces BA with record results of £180m
Saturday 31st May, 2003
BBC
Residents'
train horn misery [Brighton]
Time running
out for Air Canada
Financial Times *
How
trains keep running . . . late
Guardian
Airline
flies flag for Cornwall
Times
London
to send in congestion clampers
Friday 30th May, 2003
Financial Times *
Road charging
'to be considered'
UK
minister set to unveil 4% rail fare rise
Sabotage
ruled out as cause of UK rail disaster
Improved
services still years off, warns rail body
Reform
of motor premiums could cost women dearly
Young
girls caught playing deadly game
Hi-tech
scheme to cut vehicle crime
Guardian
Rail
fares to rise by 4% despite problems
Crash
report blames poor maintenance
Arrests
surge in road camera pilot
Girls
caught on camera hurling missiles at cars
Traffic
police take a shine to their Harley
Profits
run off the rails [letter]
Independent
Errors,
not vandals, blamed for disaster in damning report
Novelist's
daughter angered by failure to apologise for deaths
Girls
aged nine caught throwing bricks on to M25
Telegraph
Girls
too young to charge
Faulty
points missed
Potters
Bar report in full
Numbers
up for crime cars
Cost
of going for gold [Olympic bid]
Exxon
ditches green proposals
Times
Girls
caught throwing bricks at cars on M25
Police
question Potters Bar track workers
South
East train fare increases cut to 3.5%
Drivers
face more fixed penalties to fund crime crackdown
No
takeovers till business gets better, says BA
Sars
sparks Dragonair freight expansion
Not
an easyTime to be boss of a budget airline
Thursday 29th May, 2003
BBC
'No
sabotage' in Potters Bar crash
A licence to
speed
Network
Rail in the red, but upbeat
Multi-million
facelift for Eurostar
Financial Times *
Improved
services still years off, warns rail body
London
to test-drive national road toll system
Ford
welcomes currency boost for luxury cars
Brussels
wins powers on 'open skies' deals
Guardian
Pedal
power to tame life in fast lane
Repair
costs shunt network into the red
Independent
Poor
maintenance blamed for Potters Bar crash
Network
Rail under fire as delays rise by 9%
Telegraph
Speed
limiter goes on trial
Number's
up for trainspotters
Network
Rail debt surges
Costs
go loco but motive defective
Times
In-car
computer puts brake on speeding drivers
Life
in the slow lane grew on me (slowly)
Ministers
'wasted £80m on Network Rail'
Network
Rail admits delays have risen 9%
Railtrack
needed more money, but not this much
More
bad omens for railways
KLM
ends business class in Europe
London Evening Standard
Cheaper
train route could be scrapped
Wednesday 28th May, 2003
BBC
Network
Rail in the red, but upbeat
Multi-million
facelift for Eurostar
Mostyn-Dublin
ferry route dropped
Cheaper trains
'may be cut' [Wales]
CrossRail
eyes mail line
Car dealer
costs 'nearly double'
Financial Times *
Virgin
Atlantic scorns reports of BA buy-out
Guardian
Exxon
mauled by green tiger protest
Eurostar's
luxury ideas above its station
Swiss
and Virgin show airline pain
Independent
Lib
Dems declare war on four-wheel-drives
Telegraph
MP
wants 4x4s out
Medicines
label alert for drivers
Losses
mount for Virgin Express
Times
Eurostar
gets a makeover in passenger war
[French]
Air traffic controllers may join wider action
Keep
off-road vehicles off urban roads, says MP
Virgin
Express plunges further into the red
Tuesday 27th May, 2003
BBC
Air chaos
as France strikes
Airport
'playing politics' claim [Freedom to Fly v Airportwatch]
City's
£6m public transport boost [Newcastle]
Financial Times *
Flights
cancelled because of strike in France
Car
dealers warn best bargains will not last
Voluntary
permits planned for London roadworks
Guardian
Cycle
groups attack road safety 'skull' campaign to shock youngsters
Independent
Passengers
face air fare hike to pay for noise compensation
Times
Night
flight noise is twice the legal limit
Damages
may hit £2bn if residents win their case
Sound
and fury [graphic]
Noise
and nonsense [leader]
Greens
give Schröder's prized motorway the bird
Monday 26th May, 2003
BBC
Tram
power lines go up [Nottingham]
Airline
merger plot thickens
Guardian
Historic
buildings face blitz of destruction [airports]
Small
airports owner accuses Nats of overcharging
We
can buy Virgin or BMI, says BA
Rail
firms on horns of dilemma over noise levels
Independent
British
Airways threatens Virgin Atlantic bid
All
bicycles to be fitted with bells from May 2004
Telegraph
Quiet
life after Concorde
Sunday 25th May, 2003
Independent on Sunday
Campaigners
sue over new runways
EU
set to fight US over air subsidies
Observer
BA
in battle to stop Virgin merger
Road
tolls could end vehicle tax
Sunday Telegraph
BA
considers bid for Virgin Atlantic
Network
Rail to post record loss
Sunday Times
Darling
plans tolls for a fifth of roads
Livingstone
plan for 20mph London
Urban
4x4s run into backlash
Branson
planned BA takeover — but now BA may buy Virgin
Airline
odd couple consider marriage
Saturday 24th May, 2003
Financial Times *
UK
road tolls could mean end of car tax
Guardian
Running
late - crucial London rail link that may miss the Olympics
Doomed
to travel forever on a wrong way journey to nowhere in particular
[Crossrail]
BA
accused of foul play in runways campaign
Can
staff ever rise above the bumpy ride? [aviation employment]
Independent
Minister
may end car tax to compensate for road tolls
Telegraph
Ryanair
options net staff £20,000
Times
Stores
cut petrol prices to brighten holiday
BA
chief attacks strategy of ailing Swiss
Friday 23rd May, 2003
BBC
Virgin
and BMI airlines in talks
Clamp down on
car tax evaders
Warning
over stopped flights [SW]
Mayor
opens space age pier [Thames]
Financial Times *
Extra
runway 'vital for economy' says BA
PM
pins transport revival hopes on new head [DfT]
Poor
rail links condemn Midlands business to slow track
Motor
Show's final drive to turn corner
Guardian
BA
rejects Stansted new runway option
BMI
snubs merger approach from Virgin
Broadband
Britain counts 2m homes
Telegraph
New
Heathrow runway 'worth £37bn'
Virgin
and BMI merger talks
Times
Drivers
to face automatic £80 fine for failing to pay road tax
Virgin's
attempt to merge with bmi 'doomed'
Network
Rail set to drop property developments
London Evening Standard
Paddington
rail crash court bid fails [HSE]
Thursday 22nd May, 2003
BBC
BA
backs third Heathrow runway
Financial Times *
Land
deals could net rail group billions of pounds
Guardian
P&O
supports 'zero emission' shipbreaking
Expansion
is still in the air [letters]
Telegraph
Village
divided in half [rail maintenance]
Times
'Millions
wasted on car study' [school travel]
The
digging never stops in London, tunnel capital of the world
Tunnels
under the Thames [graphic]
Decline
in travel abroad continues
Wednesday 21st May, 2003
BBC
South
West air route secured
BA flight
offer let down
Financial Times *
Livingstone
urges help for retailers in car charge zone
Guardian
Think-tank
at odds with Labour on airports
Livingstone
sends bus crews back to school
Platform
soul [little used stations]
Independent
France
to pay for high-speed rail links by taxing lorry trips
Telegraph
Car
price falls put brake on Ford recovery
Times
Runway
scheme bad for Britain, think-tank says
Airport
expansion [letter]
London Evening Standard
'Cut
parking costs to ease congestion'
Tuesday 20th May, 2003
BBC
Corporate
killing law promised
Olympic
bid 'fails without rail link'
[BA]
South West flights to end
Cost of
car cover slows
Financial Times *
Darling
set to hand over Tube in July
Guardian
Air
industry rejects Cliffe site
Independent
BA
warning overshadows return to black
Telegraph
BA
flies back into the black
Times
Railway
signals to be replaced with computer in cab
Pension
woes and trade fears hit BA
BA
back in profit but the horizon looks red
In
a tailspin? Airlines' performance
Grounding
Concorde to cost carrier £84m
London Evening Standard
London
'needs crossrail for Olympics'
Monday 19th May, 2003
BBC
Cost cuts
put BA back in the black
Attempt
to strike airport deal
Vandals
attack speed camera
New
[train] route opens for Midlands
Financial Times *
Rail
operators asked to explain why more than 25% of services run late
Car
insurance slowdown drives fears for industry
Guardian
Firms
face corporate killing law
Rail
fares go up, number of services goes down
Towns
cut off as signals turn red for four months
Independent
BA
flies back into profit
Sisters
and cousin killed after M25 breakdown
Telegraph
Demand
for flights up
If
our airports don't grow, they will die [comments]
SRA
calls timely summit
London Evening Standard
Tube
fares are the highest in world
Sunday 18th May, 2003
BBC
'Summer of discontent'
for trains
Independent on Sunday
Roads
and Railways: Mondeo man is still in the driving seat
Sky
marshals will be used on UK flights, minister says
Observer
BA
profits nosedive amid 'perfect storm'
Sunday Telegraph
The
South's public enemy [BAA Clasper]
Sunday Times
Skye
Bridge toll deal may cost £100m
Toll
charges imposed on 11 motorways [Ireland]
Report
calls for auction of UK airport slots
BA
faces a £1bn pension fund hole
Redhill
joins the fight for new runways
Passenger
numbers to grow 40-50%, claims Ryanair
Saturday 17th May, 2003
BBC
BA 'targeted
by al-Qaeda'
Vandals
suspected in rail chaos [WCML]
Financial Times *
Weak
pound gives car buyers cheaper deal than in Germany
Guardian
Congestion
charge speeds up traffic but burdens tube
Livingstone
in the fast lane - but can he stay there?
The
enforcers
Congestion
charging in other cities
The
tube since congestion charging
After
soft soap, plane talking [BAA]
Times
EasyJet
may sue over French 'cartel'
Friday 16th May, 2003
BBC
Glider
crashes on main rail route [WCML]
Financial Times *
Fall
in western Europe car sales
Telegraph
Five
months for 156mph
Killer
driver's £200 fine
Times
BMW
driver jailed for speeding at record 156mph
Bus
lanes to ease London congestion
New
York subway ordered to reverse 50c fare rise
Thursday 15th May, 2003
BBC
Train
grumbles make socialising a rail pain for Alistair Darling
Olympic
bid set for green light
[Railway]
Mast bill clears first hurdle
National
Express to quit Eurostar
Guardian
Alstom
hit by rail contract costs
Routemasters
near their last stop
Making
the railways work [letters]
Independent
National
Express plans its departure from Eurostar
Telegraph
SRA
deaf to FirstGroup plea
Times
Homes
hit by runways will get only £2,000
...but
evidence shows house prices take off
How
100,000 families would be affected [graphic]
Eurostar's
British operators pull out of bureaucratic consortium
Rejected
FirstGroup keeps rail aim
Carillion
favoured for road and hospital projects
First
class falls victim to prudent passengers
CAA
to resist in-flight use of mobile phones
Airlines
encouraged by on-board laptops
Wednesday 14th May, 2003
BBC
Mayor
urged to extend tram scheme [Croydon]
BAA 'golden
share' ruled illegal
Financial Times *
EU
court rules against 'golden shares'
Increased
grants for rail freight shrunk by inflation
Guardian
Ferry
service may be replaced [London crossing]
State's
golden share in BAA is illegal
Air
France on course for sell-off
Time
for an air traffic congestion charge [letters]
Independent
Court
orders Government to abandon golden share in BAA
Telegraph
BAA
golden share barred by EU
Times
Drink-driver
sped 100mph wrong way
Rail
authority to revive freight facilities grants
Tuesday 13th May, 2003
BBC
£1bn
train improvements promised [S Central]
Thames
bridge plans put to public
French strike
brings travel chaos
Slate plans
to boost jobs and rail [N Wales]
Financial Times *
Late
trains fail to stop operator subsidy rise
Critics
attack new Thames bridge plan
Guardian
BAA
demands runways to avert sky 'gridlock'
Independent
BAA
denies lying to Terminal Five inquiry
Telegraph
Three
runways needed
South
Central rolls with £1bn
Times
Schools
under threat as BAA backs third Heathrow runway
Rail
investment cut after contract reduced [S Central]
London Evening Standard
Anger
greets plan for new runways
£1bn
investment in rail service
Monday 12th May, 2003
BBC
UK 'needs more
runways'
Airport expansion
plans condemned
Runway enemies
square up
Stansted
expansion option under fire
Campaigners
'dismayed' at runway plan [Heathrow]
Airport
protesters vow to fight on [Cliffe]
Opposition
to runway goes on [Gatwick]
Road link
row heats up [Scotland]
Parties
unite to fight M74 plans
Financial Times *
BAA
calls for three more runways in South-East
Boeing
to use British fuel cell in aircraft
Rail
cuts overshadow train investment
Worsening
transport 'making staff late'
Guardian
Transport
chief 'trying to gag rail companies'
FirstGroup
pits passenger opinion against SRA veto
Losing
track [comment - Bob Crow]
Independent
Darling
'tries to gag train companies' on bad news
Telegraph
BA
flies to the aid of tithe barn
London Evening Standard
Huge
airports growth plan
Connex
trains will not run on Chunnel link
Budget
airline for Amsterdam route
Sunday 11th May, 2003
BBC
Number's
up for phone drivers
Toll
road director quits
River
'threatened by off-roaders'
'Rope
bridge' for dormice
Independent on Sunday
Bitterness
and rage at Potters Bar ceremony
Observer
Pay
taxpayers £600m for Concorde, Branson tells BA
Branson's
flight of fancy
And
why Rod Eddington is sure Branson's Concorde won't fly
Reckless
drivers who kill face 14 years in jail
Potters
Bar families call for public inquiry
Sunday Telegraph
The
no-frills Kiwi [easyJet]
Sunday Times
BAA
calls for new runways in southeast
220mph
national rail line to go ahead
Scots
get 220mph trains to London
Traffic
police given monthly fine targets
Trees
blitzed to keep trains running
Steady
hand keeps Easyjet aloft in no-frills dogfight
Low-cost
airlines struggle to pull out of dive
Is
that Seamus Brennan we see sitting on the airport fence?
Saturday 10th May, 2003
BBC
River
'threatened by off-roaders'
War and
Sars hit UK air travel
Guardian
4x4s
trash Roman town
Runway
'will only affect 10,000' [Heathrow]
Telegraph
Toll
M-way chief quits
Roman
site wrecked by 4x4s
BAA
hit by fall in long-haul traffic
Times
Police
target drivers
Roman
site damaged by off-road drivers
Lords
back EU over open skies deals
Airports
see fewer long-haul passengers
Friday 9th May, 2003
BBC
UK 'will
make bigger greenhouse cuts'
Financial Times *
Rich
countries' greenhouse gas emissions likely to rise 10%
Call
for talks on EU-US free skies
Guardian
Right
lines [letter - land values]
Independent
Rail
season-ticket prices set to rise as subsidies scrapped
Telegraph
Drivers
may face huge price rise on toll M-way
Highway
robbery ]leader]
P&O
cuts its container losses
Times
Commuters
face rail fare free-for-all
KLM
warns of falling yields
Thursday 8th May, 2003
BBC
UK 'doing well
on emissions'
Commuters
flee train fire [Oxford]
Financial Times *
Rail
bid by respected German operator rejected
Concorde
campaign still on the runway
Guardian
M-way
firm brags over tolls
Darling
may speed changes on tube
EasyJet
slumps £48m into the red
Telegraph
EasyJet
comes in £48m too low
Times
EasyJet
warning as interims tumble
Delays
over London's Crossrail link [letter]
London Evening Standard
Passengers
face rail chaos
Wednesday 7th May, 2003
BBC
Europe
slips on greenhouse targets
Road toll
levy announced [M6]
Will toll
road scheme spread?
Easyjet
flies into the red
Airport
permitted to move road [Plymouth]
Branson's
Concorde bid rejected
Financial Times *
Rival
Crossrail bid would cost £3.3bn, says consortium
Guardian
£11
for 27 miles: why lorries will steer clear of Britain's first toll motorway
Mayor
may tax firms to fund rail link
Footpaths
at risk in bid to fight crime
Sars
worsens business travel losses at BA
Decongesting
Britain [leader]
Independent
£3
to drive on first toll motorway - and more planned
British
Airways sees fall in premium class passengers
Telegraph
£2
for toll motorway
BA
slashes seat prices as first-class cabin empties
Times
The
M6 choice: pay £3 or crawl for 45 minutes
Driver
guilty of killing student was road racing
Doubts
cast on public spending plans after £7.5bn underspend
BA's
Asia-Pacific flights hit by Sars
EasyJet
set to cut head office staff
Air
traffic forecasts [letters]
Tuesday 6th May, 2003
BBC
Road toll
levy to be revealed [BNRR]
Branson's
plan for Concorde
Financial Times *
Increase
in lorry loads means jams ahead
Traffic
jams will only get worse, says freight chief
Warning
on congestion charge benefits
Guardian
[SRA]
Spin doctor's phone rant leads to calls for dismissal
Independent
BA
hit by £1bn pensions black hole
Minister
urged to fire spin doctor for foul-mouthed rant on rail boss
Telegraph
Virgin
Atlantic 'back in the black'
SRA
slams Network Rail's lobby for secret meeting
Times
90%
of drivers win congestion charge appeal
Virgin
Atlantic profits at £10m
EasyJet
boss plans bus and pizza launches
Monday 5th May, 2003
Independent
Branson
steps up bid to keep Concorde airborne
Times
EasyJet
shares slide on gloomy profits forecast
Virgin
to launch airline in US
Airport
standards [BAA letter]
London Evening Standard
Airport
campaigners set up exhibition [Gatwick]
Sunday 4th May, 2003
Sunday Times
Easyjet
faces losses of £50m after Go merger
Self-parking
car to banish bumps
Saturday 3rd May, 2003
BBC
Air
travel 'to rise by half' [London]
More problems
for Pendolino [WCML]
Madonna
blasts congestion charge
Shell
profits double
Supermarkets
cut petrol prices
Swiss
airline in low-cost split
United
Airlines posts more losses
Guardian
New
generation of jams may trap drivers for days
Swiss
to create a low cost carrier
Shell
doubles its earnings
Warning
sends EasyJet into a dive
Independent
Eurostar
feels the strain as passenger numbers slump
Who
wants high-cost Eurostar when a cheap flight is faster?
Stores
step up petrol war
Telegraph
Swiss
unveils budget spin-off
Madonna
gets charged up
Friday 2nd May, 2003
BBC
Fuel price hike
could cut pollution
Traffic
'damages male fertility'
Chunnel firm
faces spiralling costs
'Phone threat'
to air safety
Work
to end rail bottleneck [Cornwall]
Guardian
Shock
tactics hailed as road injuries fall
Channel
tunnel faces second NAO audit
Network
Rail to hold secret meeting
Times
Eurostar
set to ask for £1bn handout
London Evening Standard
Firms
welcome London-Glasgow [air] link
Thursday 1st May, 2003
Times
Crossrail
timetable put back as cost soars to £15bn
BA
chief blames French for killing off Concorde
Tunnel
rail link aid is approved
Wednesday 30th April, 2003
BBC
MPs
to hear killer driver campaign
Financial Times *
Branson's
Concorde bid grounded by Airbus chief
Guardian
Tunnelling
restarts despite collapse [Chunnel link]
Branson
seeks Concorde help
Times
EasyJet
has to pay for ‘deceitful’ cancelling
Airport
standards [letter]
Integrated
transport [letter]
London Evening Standard
Setback
for Central Line passengers
Tuesday 29th April, 2003
BBC
Warning over
new homes plan [SE]
Financial Times *
South-east
housing programme 'will cost up to £20bn'
Councils
accused of diverting road cash
Guardian
Price
of Prescott housing plan too high, MPs warn
Chunnel
commuting [leader]
Miles
better [letter - about Env Agency relocation]
Times
MPs
warn of ‘urban sprawl’ in South East
Fines
are cancelled for the cloned car
Stagecoach
still stuck in a rut
Monday 28th April, 2003
Guardian
Minister
wades into row over London traffic lights
BA's
£20m cuts put regional services at risk
Times
Car
cloners beat congestion charge
Airlines
look for insurance refunds
Airport
standards [letter]
Sunday 27th April, 2003
BBC
M-way
plan could be extended
Thameslink
denies timetable 'ploy'
Independent on Sunday
Darling
to extend motorway pilot scheme
British
inventors offered £10m prize to design green family car
Sunday Times
Darling
pushed to bring in road tolls
Runaway
train [costs]
Irish
road project costs soar due to land prices
Saturday 26th April, 2003
Financial Times *
UK
plans new roads and action to cut congestion
Guardian
Airport
rules relaxed to help ailing airlines
EasyJet
hits turbulence
Angry
- but not off the rails [Moir Lockhead]
Independent
Hard
shoulders to be opened in rush hour to ease congestion
Telegraph
EC
plans help for stricken airlines
Times
Timetable
ploy to cut the number of late trains
Fat
motorists ‘more prone to accidents’
Metronet
finds £314m black hole in Tube contract
BA
pledges to keep up alliance
Virgin
Atlantic faces industrial action by pilots
Friday 25th April, 2003
Guardian
Rural
roads show stark deterioration
Telegraph
Iceland
puts hydrogen fuel on road
Times
Airport
pollution figures cut to stifle runway protesters
Icelanders
to fill up on hydrogen thanks to Shell
Opec
quota move sends oil price tumbling
Thursday 24th April, 2003
BBC
UK's 'dangerous'
road tunnels
Flybe in £500m
planes order
Huge
fire hits tyre yard
Passengers
stranded on train
Financial Times *
Network
Rail probe into chaos at London terminal
Guardian
Mayor
sharpens focus on charge zone cheats
Tyneside
ready for new £140m tunnel
Precautions
poor but accidents few [road tunnels]
Dutch
state-owned firm wins Merseyside rail franchise
$1bn
loss at American Airlines
Telegraph
Merseyrail
franchise goes Dutch
Times
Budget
airlines in dogfight over flights 'giveaway'
Driver
on phone as train hit his van
Light
at end of British tunnels
Motorist
gets axe after rude gesture
Wednesday 23rd April, 2003
BBC
Wave of fresh
rail strikes
Paddington
station reopens
Financial Times *
London
businesses blame road toll for cut in takings
'Green'
fuel review could mean red faces
Guardian
Chaos
at Paddington
More
strikes in rail safety dispute
High
winds bring rail chaos
Ryanair's
Easter sale lays an egg
Independent
Rail
union calls four more strikes in safety dispute
'How
am I driving?' Don't call us, we'll call you
Telegraph
Paddington
causes chaos
Ryanair
lampoons rival easyJet in fares war using 'Iraq propaganda'
Times
Rail
chaos as repair work is held up by breeze
Rail
guards call two more strikes
Transport
criticism [letter]
Tuesday 22nd April, 2003
BBC
Commuters
face Easter hangover
Rail
commuters face chaos
Financial Times *
Airports
operator warns on expansion plans [rail access]
Guardian
Paddington
closure spells rush-hour misery
Closure
looms for capital's other underground railway
Big,
not clever [American SUVs]
Independent
Paddington
stays shut as work overruns
Telegraph
Olive
stones join growing list of green fuels
Times
Paddington
commuters face delays as station stays shut
Bus
system gets green light to beat the red ones
A
partial cure for Heathrow's ills [letter]
Monday 21st April, 2003
BBC
Bank Holiday
traffic warning
Train derailment
blocks [WC] mainline
Financial Times *
Concorde
prepares to fly out with a boom
Private
Tube company has fewer delays
Rail
authority set to reinstate freight grants
Greece
faces Olympic Airways subsidy suit
Guardian
Darling
acts in MyTravel crisis
Independent
West
Coast line shut by collision of repair trains
Telegraph
Government
in talks with CAA about MyTravel
Times
Minister
holds talks with CAA about troubles at MyTravel
London Evening Standard
New
UK-Ireland air route
Sunday 20th April, 2003
Sunday Times
Channel
rail link cost leaps to £9 billion
Ryanair
to attack Easyjet’s home base in Luton
Budget
airlines target Ireland
Spin
over plans for Aer Lingus sell-off fails to take off
BA
to resume scheduled flights to Baghdad
Green
cars: New eco warriors are a breath of fresh air
Saturday 19th April, 2003
BBC
Supermarkets
in petrol price war
Jams on roads
to the coast
Economic
benefits of disused railways [Y&H]
£30m
investment cuts train delays [GNER]
Drivers
delayed by huge lorry [Wales]
Financial Times *
End
of Iraq war boosts tourist industry
Rich,
sporty singles drive resurgent market for luxury camper vans
Guardian
Traffic
misery as sun makes holiday appearance but cool change on way
Spring's
record drought sparks pollution danger
28
hurt in Dover ferry collision
Rail
refund plan scrapped
Independent
Paddington
closure adds to holiday gridlock
Ministers
float plan to impose 'water' tax on sailors
Telegraph
Families
stuck in 110 miles of jams on the motorways
Times
Drivers
spend best day of weekend stuck in jams
Rail
repairs to disrupt holiday travel all year
War
'premium' drives down petrol prices
No
time for you to go off the rails, Darling [comment on Crossrail]
Friday 18th April, 2003
BBC
Rail strike
hits Easter travellers
Paddington
station shut for Easter
Cruise
ship plan for River Tyne
Guardian
Rail
misery slows traditional Easter getaway - and the good weather won't last
Instructors
hoot at driving test
On
track to regional rail revival
Darling
faces backlash over review
BA
and Virgin race to take Baghdad
Independent
Rail
strikes threatens Easter chaos on roads
Telegraph
Sun
lovers jam roads
Times
Sunshine
starts holiday weekend jams a day early
London Evening Standard
Airline
suspends London route
Thursday 17th April, 2003
BBC
Rail strike
to disrupt busiest day
Couple
win jet noise claim
Financial Times *
Couple
win payout over noise from overflying military jets
Guardian
Forecast
clouded by ozone alert
£1m
payout over country house idyll ruined by the scream of Harrier jets
Independent
Couple
win £1m landmark payment for RAF jet noise
Telegraph
£950,000
for jet misery
Times
Couple
win £1m damages over unbearable jet noise
Transport
adviser faces axe for taking ministers to task
A
clash of unlike minds
Beg
to differ [leader]
Wednesday 16th April, 2003
BBC
Cities shun
congestion charge
Software
brings buses closer
Guardian
Plan
to cut congestion discounts
High
charges 'turn bridge into barrier'
EasyJet
may sue over Orly slots
Times
Residents
lose discount as congestion zone grows
Most
[London] journeys now take longer [graphic]
£500
to get your car back as clampers gear up
Tuesday 15th April, 2003
BBC
Selby crash
driver loses appeal
Financial Times *
Architect
of congestion charge looks overseas
Selby
crash driver fails to have his conviction overturned
Guardian
Confusing
computer data caused jumbo jet near miss
Rail
crash driver loses appeal
Times
A
£3.7bn mouth organ - Heathrow's Terminal 5
Selby
crash appeal rejected
Air
traffic should pay [letter]
Monday 14th April, 2003
BBC
Italy flights
cut due to strike
Selby crash
driver launches appeal
Commuters
brave congested Tube
Better
buses for South West
Independent
Ministers
oppose plan for national railcard
Walt
Disney and airlines admit Sars virus is crippling business
Telegraph
More
Heathrow night flights
London Evening Standard
Bus
firms doubt charge success
Sunday 13th April, 2003
Independent on Sunday
Jarvis
slammed over rail maintenance
Sunday Telegraph
Metronet
to cut 660 jobs
Union
to vote on [American Airlines bankruptcy]
Sunday Times
Airlines
ground flights as war and Sars bite
Aer
Lingus seeks buyer consortium
Saturday 12th April, 2003
BBC
Tube
gearbox 'never serviced'
Central Line
reopens fully
Commute
from France, council suggests
Safety
system fitted to trains [Arriva Northern]
Fight
to stop nuclear trains
Financial Times *
Fate
of transport watchdog raises fresh concerns over Blair's policy
Guardian
Kent
wants 10,000 to commute from France
Ryanair's
no-frills price for Buzz
Independent
Tube
crash report points to 'incompetent managers'
Commute
from France, overcrowded Kent tells its residents
FirstGroup
to take row with regulator to court
Telegraph
Kent
says live in France
Times
There's
light at the end of Chunnel for commuters
Ryanair
completes Buzz deal without clearance
Private
cars fuel oil imports
Friday 11th April, 2003
BBC
Rail franchise
out to tender [Thames Trains]
Jet
testing upsets residents [Gloucestershire]
Concorde grounded
for good
Financial Times *
BA
and Air France to ground Concorde
Futuristic
dream overtaken by today's financial realities
Guardian
How
Tube partnership came unstuck
Concorde's
end will cost £83m
Independent
Branson
unveils £1 rescue bid for unwanted Concorde
Ageing
icon whose cost was sky-high
Telegraph
Concorde
grounded
Times
Passengers
face long wait for next supersonic jet
Thursday 10th April, 2003
BBC
War
puts off fuel tax rises
Airport
traffic on the rise [Scotland]
Long-haul
flights down
Concorde to
retire in October
'Congestion
charge for Heathrow'
Homes
shaken by sonic boom
Police
get free ticket to ride
Financial Times *
Budget
speech text and Red Book
Budget
speech summary
Guardian
Driver
in fatal coach crash 'nodded off'
Mayor
plans kiss and fly charge
Greens
furious at petrol tax freeze
Speed
of sound is silenced
Independent
End
of an era - Concorde is retired
Telegraph
BAA
congestion charge clash
Budget:
No cars qualify for new tax
Times
BA
admits Concorde will fly for last time this year
Freeze
at the forecourt cuts cost of motoring
War
and virus hold back BAA
Noisy
concrete roads [letter]
Wednesday 9th April, 2003
BBC
Virgin
rapped over train ad claims
Fatal coach
crash inquest begins
Bridge
could create 2,000 jobs
Financial Times *
Night
flight curbs extended
Times
Livingstone
to charge £5 for driving to Heathrow
Unpopular
Concorde to be retired soon
Tuesday 8th April, 2003
BBC
Bombardier
wins Tube deal
Financial Times *
Birds
'would pose hazard to aircraft at new London airport'
Industry
beats gas targets
Guardian
Congestion
enforcers may be clamped
Report
gives airport plan the bird
[Tube]
Commuters taken for another ride
Metronet
shelters under PPP liability cap
Corus
woes help CO2 goals
Independent
£9bn
Thames airport ruled out because of birds hazard
Metronet
fines capped at £4m for Tube closure
Steel
crisis helps Britain beat target on greenhouse gas
Opec
calls crisis meeting to cut production as oil price tumbles
Telegraph
Bird
blow to airport plan
Ford
to slash $6bn costs
Top
oilmen share $180m bonanza
Times
Birdstrike
crash risk 'rules out' airport site
Wildlife
fears over 12-mile Morecambe Bay bridge project
Tube
partners could force new PPP deal
Oil
prices at lowest level since November
Slump
in fares may deepen easyJet loss
Brussels
accuses UK over White City [EIA failure]
Buses
and other pensioners' perks [letters]
London Evening Standard
C-charge
'ups journey times'
Bright
future promised for Tube
Invensys
signals Tube deal
Hailing
the electric taxi
Monday 7th April, 2003
Independent
Darling
urged to act in FirstGroup row
Telegraph
Lives
'ruined by [traffic] noise'
Times
Road
test for self-braking car that obeys speed limit
Flights
of fancy [letter]
Sunday 6th April, 2003
Observer
Expand
the South and demolish the North?
Doubt
cast over need for growth in South East
Major
reforms essential to get us running smoothly [Stephen Joseph]
Home
is where you'll want to live [John Prescott]
Telegraph
London
faces £35bn transport shortfall
Cars
priced by region
War
and pestilence sends US airlines into a steeper nose dive
Times
Green
fuel plan
Apax
set to buy rail freight firm
Irish
Rail records loss of €12m
Saturday 5th April, 2003
BBC
New
airport gets the go-ahead [Finningley]
Final stamp
on Tube PPP deal
'Death
driver' gets 12 years [N Ireland]
Guardian
Go-ahead
for new airport on RAF base
BA
caps Concorde ticket sales
Underground
lease completed
Independent
22,000
congestion charge fines revoked
Telegraph
Metronet
signs tube deal
12
years for driver who killed
Times
Doncaster
to get major airport
Runway
conflict of interest claim
Greens
promise to put the brake on building trunk roads
BA
chief attacks aid package for US carriers
Metronet
seals £17bn Tube deal
The
Tube deal [graphic]
Friday 4th April, 2003
BBC
Tolls
needed to cut jams, say MPs
UK
greenhouse gas 'failing'
Airport
expansion brings 700 jobs [Liverpool]
Hitches
spoil Tube line reopening
Danger driving
terms reviewed
Financial Times *
Dangerous
drivers warned of stiffer penalties
Guardian
Road
charging backed by MPs
Corporate
flyers spurn BA
Stagecoach
slips
Telegraph
BA
traffic hit by war and virus
Time
for mobile killers
Times
MPs
tell minister it's tolls today or jams tomorrow
How
the government has watered down its transport targets for 2010 [graphic]
Jail
for drivers who kill at the wheel
Workmen
kept disabled driver at bay
Sars
hits BA bookings
Manchester
PFI tram firm sees losses soar
Carillion
lands highways deal
Sars
fears take toll of shares in Stagecoach
Flights
of fancy? [letter]
London Evening Standard
First
London-Wales [air] service in 35 years
Fire
alerts mar tube line reopening
Thursday 3rd April, 2003
BBC
Reopened
[Central] line suffers new hitch
Air
strike threatens travel delays
Financial Times *
MPs
attack ministers over green 'failings'
Telegraph
Air
crash risks cut
Times
Warning
could cost airlines £6.5bn
Block
for $3bn US airline aid plan
Wednesday 2nd April, 2003
BBC
Fines pay
for more cameras
Central
Line reopens to West End
Financial Times *
MPs
criticise greenhouse gas progress
Taxpayers
face £40m Tube bill over closure of Central line
Anger
as road plans include Peak District
Guardian
Central
line to resume City and West End services
£755m
plan will quieten noisy roads
EasyJet
makes staff go
Independent
FirstGroup
at war with rail regulator
Airlines
may face charges over DVT deaths
Telegraph
FirstGroup
threatens to sue Strategic Rail Authority
Times
£700m
road plan helps bring quiet to 11,000 homes
Forth
Rail Bridge to close for repairs
FirstGroup
may sue rail regulator over franchise
Leading
airline shares take a dive
London Evening Standard
Hauliers
hit at congestion charge
Toll
decision upsets drivers
Tuesday 1st April, 2003
BBC
Rail
safety overhaul unveiled
Financial Times *
One
fifth of rail network overdue for replacement
Train
services disrupted again by guards
No
hand-outs, Brussels tells Europe airlines
Premiums
on shipping at highest for many years
Guardian
[Aviation]
Fuel tax strategy a 'complete mess'
Network
Rail seeks to fill £10bn hole
Air
transport's hand-outs [letter]
Independent
Rail
commuters suffer as second strike by guards cuts services by up to 90 per
cent
Telegraph
5
years for rail improvements
Ryanair
flight vow [to maintain French airport network]
Times
New
rail operator steps back from plan to cut delays
Monday 31st March, 2003
BBC
Fresh rail
strike starts
Troubled
rail link attracting users [Newcastle metro]
Guardian
£1.5bn
funding gap raises fears of huge rail cutbacks
Network
Rail says costs will almost double to £27bn
Unpopular
head of [rail] safety loses his job
Iron
resolve keeps the one-way ticket to ride train chugging
Pilots
propose cuts to save American Airlines
Independent
Rail
safety chief executive expected to lose his position
Telegraph
Network
Rail £6bn costs bombshell
Times
Drivers'
hands-free mobiles to be banned
[1930s]
Oil industry suppressed plans for 200-mpg car
War
may delay Tube handover
Network
Rail to cut costs by £1bn
It's
time to put these grey freeloaders off the bus
London Evening Standard
BA
takes off from London City
Firemen
tackle train fire
Sunday 30th March, 2003
Sunday Telegraph
[Networkrail]
'Worse than Railtrack'
Cost
of running railways doubles to £6bn
Nats
signs £125m radar deals
The
slow runner at Aintree is Network Rail
Sunday Times
London
Underground to give up its Canary Wharf headquarters
Cost
of running rail network to hit £6bn a year
Tax
changes fail to stem rise of the company car
War
to push BA back into the red
Saturday 29th March, 2003
BBC
Rail fares
to rise
Financial Times *
Railway
running costs 'to be double its budget'
Second
day of train strikes set to go ahead
Motorists
flushed as car values go down the pan
Congestion
charge fines trigger 100 appeals a day
Guardian
Train
strike causes chaos and more walkouts loom
Independent
Rail
services halted across Britain by guards' walkout
Telegraph
Guards
defy strike call
Times
Guards
hide rather than sell tickets, says rail firm
Friday 28th March, 2003
Financial Times *
U-turn
on Dartford tolls
Guardian
First
train guards strike begins
Rush-hour
Britain slows down
Network
Rail's clawback gathers pace
Airlines
lobby for waiver of ticket tax over war period
Blasting
the past [airports]
Independent
Rail
union says more strikes will follow one-day walkouts
Balfour
hit as Network Rail reclaims contracts
Telegraph
In-house
rail maintenance
Times
Insurance
bill for European airlines likely to hit £950m
Rail
contractors set to lose £1bn
Thursday 27th March, 2003
BBC
Rail guards
announce walk-out
Financial Times *
Rail
body to fund losses caused by union action
Virgin
told to cut train costs by up to £300m
Companies
switch to diesel cars
Guardian
BA
blames war for jobs and flight cuts
Rail
chaos looms after talks fail
Thin
air won't keep carriers flying
Independent
Guards
plan three 24-hour strikes in rail safety row
Telegraph
Guards'
strike to go ahead
Times
BA
cuts flights to save cash
Merrill
warns that long-haul routes will suffer
Aid
planned for airlines
Pilots
threaten a confrontation
Amey
resolute on Tube strike
BA's
London City debut offers new European option
London Evening Standard
Let's
reclaim our roads, says actress
Wednesday 26th March, 2003
BBC
British
Airways cuts more flights
Financial Times *
BA
and Lufthansa set to cut capacity
Guardian
Brussels
relaxes airline aid rules
Swiss
to miss its breakeven target
Independent
War
forces BA to cut jobs and flights
Telegraph
BA
fastens seatbelts for war
'BA
flying through crisis'
Times
Slow-down
signs work better than cameras
Railway
upgrade millions to be lost on strikes
BA
to cut routes as EU plans aid for airlines
Big
airlines get their wings clipped [graphic]
London Evening Standard
Ken's
congestion charge chief quits
Tuesday 25th March, 2003
BBC
More Central
Line stations open
Financial Times
Tube
line set to reopen by Easter
Brussels
to allow compensation for airlines
Independent
Concorde
flights cancelled as travellers begin to shun costly supersonic flight
Telegraph
Office
staff to be guards
Times
Car
death girl's mother wins damages battle
Country
beats city in driving test table
Monday 24th March, 2003
Independent
One
rail firm in four 'technically insolvent'
Times
Rail
safety rules may be eased
Remote
Welsh route faces crippling costs
Airbus
gets to grips with scale of its vision
Sunday 23rd March, 2003
Sunday Telegraph
Virgin
low-cost airline launch [US]
'We'll
keep BA flying through the crisis' says Eddington
Flying
in the face of reality
Sunday Times
Heathrow
prepares to handle new jumbo
Arcadia
millionaire plans to rid railways of leaves
Saturday 22nd March, 2003
Guardian
Green
light to charge utilities for roadworks
Times
Delays
as drivers skirt congestion zone
War
hits airline jobs and services
Friday 21st March, 2003
Times
Speed
cameras may be hidden
London Evening Standard
'Tube
line to reopen fully by Easter'
Thursday 20th March, 2003
BBC
Speed camera
policy challenge
Guardian
Airline
hopes stay grounded
Laser
gun to curb boats' speed on Windermere
Telegraph
Alarm
at Network Rail's extra £10bn
Air
Traffic handed £130m parachute
Times
BA
set to reopen airline sale talks
Revamp
gives air traffic controllers a clear flight-path
Secret
EU agreement lets US snoop on transatlantic flyers
Wednesday 19th March, 2003
Financial Times *
Success
of London road toll to affect bus timetables
Guardian
Thriving
rural railways forgive Beeching at last
EasyJet
dumps plan to buy Deutsche BA
Easy
come, easy go
Telegraph
Labour
laws put easyJet off Deutsche BA option
UK
airlines excess luggage loss
United
[Airlines] on the brink of liquidation
Times
Routemasters
put on road to retirement
You're
less likely to arrive with bags on BA
EasyJet
bales out of option on DBA
CAA
agrees restructuring of UK air traffic control network
London Evening Standard
End
of journey for bus conductors?
Tuesday 18th March, 2003
BBC
Strike
action by train guards
Guardian
Medieval
village fights jet age nemesis [Gatwick]
Buzz
staff accept Ryanair terms
Independent
Congestion
charge success reduces revenue to £9m
Commuter
chaos ahead as rail union names three strike dates
Telegraph
Congestion
charges take their toll on Westminster
Ryanair
in rethink
Nats
awaits credit clearance
Monday 17th March, 2003
BBC
Business
backs congestion charge
Financial Times *
Tube
expected to receive £1bn funding boost
Air
traffic group's rescue deal set to be announced this week
Guardian
Road
and rail promises leave commuters unmoved
Telegraph
Road
projects delayed
Hatfield
claim launched
Times
Company
executives back road charging
Airline
passengers spread killer bug
London Evening Standard
Tories
pledge road-building
Sunday 16th March, 2003
Observer
Potters
Bar safety moves dismissed
Road
diversions [letter]
Independent on Sunday
Spain's
high-speed train sinks into political mire
Telegraph
Connex
staff to cover strike
Times
Welcome
to congestion charge country [National Parks]
Direct
flights to Europe from isles [Scotland]
Lorries
are a growing danger on rural roads [Ireland]
Saturday 15th March, 2003
BBC
Central
Line partially reopened
Firms
vie for Scottish rail deal
Financial Times *
Aviation
industry could face higher taxes to deal with pollution
Guardian
Airlines
face 75% green tax rise
Bus
to the bus stop is a transport of delight
Buzz
staff defy Ryanair's deadline
Independent
Passengers
face 'green tax' on airline fuel
Telegraph
Train
fare rise approaching
Drunk
driver gets judge's pity
Times
Air
travellers may be charged for climate damage
Airlines
angered as ministers consider environment levy
Road
charge has reduced traffic in zone by a fifth
Four
rail rivals in battle to run Scottish services
The
congestion charge reviewed [letters]
London Evening Standard
Safety
fears shut vital rail tunnel
Rail
strike called off
Friday 14th March, 2003
BBC
Crash during
Tube safety run
Major
rail project 'on track' [Scotland]
Financial Times *
UK
rail fares may increase sharply
Guardian
Rail
crash police seize engineer's papers
BAA
deal saves air traffic control
National
Express won't take strain of unviable trains
Telegraph
Back
on the buses [National Express]
Times
Prescott
sees the wheels fall off his cycling plan
Cycling
in Europe [graphic]
Misery
worsens on Tube
Learning
to live with the new breed of cyclists will always be an uphill struggle
[comment]
London Evening Standard
Airline
to start Stansted flights
Thursday 13th March, 2003
BBC
Tantrum
toddler 'thrown off' plane
Train fire
causes delays [E Anglia]
Guardian
Train
delays 'justify cuts'
BA
ejects toddler in mid-tantrum
Independent
How
a toddler's tantrum brought BA flight to a halt
Telegraph
[Train]
Punctuality at new low
Times
Central
Line could partly reopen soon
New
trains are no match for reliable 1960s 'workhorse'
Rail
chiefs refuse punctuality targets
Boy,
2, ordered off BA flight after tantrum
Fall
in spare capacity sends oil price higher
'No
show' Heathrow tops delays
Accident-prone
lorries [letters]
London Evening Standard
Rail
complaints rocket
Villagers
oppose airport expansion [Gatwick]
Wednesday 12th March, 2003
BBC
Cities warned
about congestion charge
Train halt
delays minister
Favoured
airport rail links [Scotland]
Guardian
Shell
chief delivers global warming warning to Bush in his own back yard
War
fears plunge airlines into crisis
Telegraph
National
congestion charge trials
Times
Congestion
chaos risk 'exaggerated'
Air
passengers increase as no-frills carriers cut fares
Congestion
charging [letter]
Tuesday 11th March, 2003
BBC
'Public
voice' over night flights [N Ireland]
Guardian
Budget
airlines fly high in satisfaction survey
Independent
Winged:
the most popular budget airlines
Telegraph
1,000
errors a day [congestion charge]
Times
Cut-price
airlines are still favourite
American
airline 'close to filing for Chapter 11'
London Evening Standard
Work
starts on city airport rail link
Blair
`will pay congestion charges'
Monday 10th March, 2003
Independent
Rail
freight link to take 10,000 lorries a day off roads?
Sunday 9th March, 2003
Observer
Traffic
chaos rises as schools siphon off cash
Rail
woes [letter]
Traffic
light [letter]
Times
Safety
fears as EU lets pilots fly 14-hour day
BA
hands southwest routes to airport owner
O’Reilly
may be forced out of joint role [Ryanair]
Buzz
faces closure if €24m Ryanair deal collapses
Revenge
for Ken as Blair clocks up congestion charge fines
McCreevy
slaps down €6bn Dublin metro plan
Saturday 8th March, 2003
Independent
Traffic
'rat runs' are springing up around congestion charging zone, according
to study
Times
EasyJet
passengers rise 44%
EasyJet
performance figures [graphic]
Accident-prone
lorries [letter]
Friday 7th March, 2003
Financial Times *
Train
guards vote for action on safety role
Guardian
Rail
strikes over 'Kit-Kat seller role'
Blackpool
cheered by air link to London
Congestion
charge 'good for bus business'
The
political cost of more cuts on the railways [letters]
Independent
Rail
chaos ahead as guards vote for action in safety dispute
Telegraph
A
£21bn challenge to Brown [Network Rail accounting]
Ford
fights back after bankruptcy forecast
End
of the Liverpool line for Arriva
Times
Timetable
scrapped as buses speed up
Motorist
triumphs over clampers to win £9,500
London Evening Standard
No
date for return of Central Line
Thursday 6th March, 2003
BBC
M25 tolls
scheme 'scrapped'
Financial Times *
Rail
companies training managers to beat strikes
Study
doubts efficacy of emissions trading scheme
Guardian
Flight
of fancy
Car
radar could cut deaths on roads
Telegraph
BA
loses out to weather and fears
Jojoba
oil as good as diesel
Balfour
Beatty hits back at critics of PFI quality
Times
Widening
of M25 'should not wait for tolls'
London Evening Standard
Airport
expansion plan criticised
Wednesday 5th March, 2003
Financial Times *
Airport
proposals 'pose threat'
Guardian
Forget
the war, it's the rail-bus ticket coalition
No
new Beeching [leader]
Telegraph
Nat
Express appoints new finance chief
Times
Lorries
are highest risk on motorways
Too-slow
gritters caused M11 chaos
London Evening Standard
Terror
simulation targets Tube station
Union
plea on congestion charges
Tuesday 4th March, 2003
Times
'Dirty
bomb' and gas attack plans tested on Tube
Network
Rail chiefs could net 80% bonuses
Monday 3rd March, 2003
Financial Times *
Climate
shift could harm rail safety and performance
Higher
taxes urged to curb expansion of airports
The
noise over UK airports
EasyCar
plans unmanned rental pick-up
Guardian
BA
uses no-frills tactics in new £450m restructuring
Telegraph
Delays
worst in Europe [air travel]
BA
banks on self-service to help cut further £450m
Times
Delays
on the Tube [letter]
London Evening Standard
PPP
chiefs 'inundated with Tube offers'
Sunday 2nd March, 2003
Independent on Sunday
Motorway
tolls win industry approval
Observer
Rail
network set for further cuts
Sunday Times
20mph
limit looms as congestion charge speeds up traffic
Brennan
told to cut costly rail plans [Ireland]
BAA
flies high on price ruling
Saturday 1st March, 2003
BBC
A
future for Concorde?
Route chosen
for £150m canal
Virgin
train hit by fire
Congestion
charge tax 'muddle'
Financial Times *
BA
blames oil for rise in fares
Airlines
attack planned rise in landing fees at Heathrow
Traffic
in London cut by 20%, says mayor's agency
Guardian
Catch
77 - bus gets ticket at bus stop, for stopping
Airline
fury at Heathrow fees
Independent
Airline
fury at Heathrow price rise
Dordogne's
expats rise in revolt after cheap airline takes flight
Telegraph
Fury
at Heathrow increases
Street
racers dice with death [Russia]
Times
Extension
to Tube gets green light
Traffic
still light in London charge zone
Zero
adds up to £400 [Congestion charge]
£20m
formula to deduce if trains are too crowded
Airlines
set to fight higher airport charge in court
BAA
cleared for take-off [graphic]
Ask
not for whom Red Ken tolls, it could be for a whole world that
still
believes in the right to roam in little metal boxes [comment]
Friday 28th February, 2003
Financial Times *
Two
extra runways at Gatwick proposed
Network
Rail has started making job cuts
Guardian
New
runway plans 'blight 350,000 lives'
Travel
delays take toll of business
Darling's
dilemma [leader - aviation]
Independent
Government
urged to cut fuel tax as oil price soars
Ancient
heronry threatened by airport plans
Telegraph
Gatwick
expansion plan
Times
Flight
growth plan zeroes in on Gatwick
Threat
returns to historic village
Options
for Gatwick [graphic]
AA
drops historic opposition to road use charging
EasyJet
'reneged on deal with BA'
London Evening Standard
Congestion
charge working, says Darling
Thursday 27th February, 2003
BBC
Airport
expansion plans due
Fury as
rail link is axed [SW]
Financial Times *
Transport
minister softens on road charging
London's
congestion charge: does it work?
Congestion
charge cameras to help combat terrorism
Tube
chief's departure is symptom of deep malaise
Guardian
Job
seekers to get cheap driving lessons
Darling
climbs off the fence to praise congestion charge
Independent
BA
considers scrapping Concorde
Telegraph
Ryanair
cuts 400 jobs at Buzz
Concorde
to be grounded
Builders
demolish Labour's plan
Times
Poorer
pupils to get free ride
Buzz
staff warned 'take cuts or we close'
Don't
badger us with excuses, say angry drivers
EU
states could be sued for ignoring 'open skies'
Company
car congestion 'perk'
Canny
flyers save by buying abroad
Ferries
steam into battle with airlines
London Evening Standard
M25
stays closed after lorry accident
Wednesday 26th February, 2003
BBC
Train services
to be axed
Villagers
win bypass inquiry fight
Financial Times *
BA
may axe Concorde
Guardian
Vehicle
charge to be pegged at £5
Easyjet
forced to cut fares
Independent
Congestion
charge leads to flood of false number plates
Telegraph
Gas
guzzlers choking on the $2 gallon
EasyJet
shocks with fare cut warning
Congestion
charging: £1.5m per week [fines]
[Congestion]
Charge confuses taxman?
Times
Mayor
pledges to peg congestion charge for decade
Road
accident danger doubles for pupils at 11
EasyJet
hit by trading update turbulence
Channel
rail link [letter]
London Evening Standard
Anger
as rail cuts announced
Passengers
escape as carriage derails
Congestion
charge increase ruled out
Traffic
still light as school holidays end
Tuesday 25th February, 2003
Guardian
Congestion
charge curbs school run but drivers claim fines errors
Risk
to environment poses same dangers as terror, warns Blair
Blair
sets out far-reaching vision but where are the practical policies?
Saving
the planet, at home and away
Oil
rises on war fears and cold
Blair's
green politics [letters]
Fewer
charter flight delays at UK airports
Independent
Congestion
scheme passes back-to-work test
Telegraph
Congestion
zone success
Climate
key to policy
Times
Airline
customers told to buzz off
Greenhouse
gases mean far hotter summers
Global
warming [graphic]
Cars
could run on rocket fuel by 2010
£55
a year - the cost of stopping global warming
Record
punctuality for charter airlines
Charter
airline delay (summer 2002) [graphic]
Kengestion
is extended (right back to 1965)
Even
Victorians were in a worse jam
A
good deal for idle Tube drivers
Freezing
temperatures in US keep oil prices on the boil
EU
seeks finish to 'national' airlines concept
Aviation
pollution [letters]
Monday 24th February, 2003
BBC
Congestion
charge costs cash
New jobs
at Birmingham airport
Driver
'on mobile' missed stop
Financial Times *
Blair
urges worldwide cut in carbon emissions
Plans
for second runway would see capacity at Gatwick airport double
London's
mayor calls for roadworks regulation
Guardian
Liverpool
transport goes back in time [trams]
Downing
Street to challenge Bush on greenhouse gas emissions
Independent
Blair:
CO2cuts would not 'trash' US economy
Times
Blair
plans 60% cut in greenhouse gas output
Blue
sky at night may be polluters' delight
US-style
school buses cut car journeys
Drivers
benefit after lawyers agree to cut fees
Personal
freedom and road charging [letters]
London Evening Standard
Traffic
still light as school holidays end
Property
success on the Jubilee line
*****
Friday 21st February, 2003
BBC
Transport
chiefs deny flaws
Financial Times *
Tube
hires aircraft engineers to check trains
Guardian
Mayor
hits back at congestion claim
Capita
says congestion charge queue is growing
Independent
Paper
is lying over congestion charge, Mayor says
Telegraph
Capita
chief hits out at congestion charge 'fantasy'
Accident
averted by accident [rail]
Times
Congestion
drivers are fined even if they pay
Tube
train bolts come loose yet again
Urgent:
Don't miss your Travelcard refund
Qantas
warns of slump in air travel
Capita
promises smoother ride
May
I say something vaguely controversial? I miss the traffic [comment]
London Evening Standard
Safety
row as Tube service resumes
Tube
drivers seeking safety assurances
First
congestion charge fines set to arrive
Track
fault 'led to derailment'
Thursday 20th February, 2003
Financial Times *
Fault
which led to tube crash remains
Fines
for 15,000 congestion charge dodgers
Guardian
Congestion
charge is hurting, say shops
Worry
over level of congestion payments
Ministers
clock up a million miles on road
Trains
in a sorry state [comment]
Independent
Congestion
charge cuts journey times but empties shops
Times
Copycat
cities learning from capital's mistakes
From
snap to scrap: How failure to pay could crush your pride and joy
Londoners
find advice is bordering on the unintelligible
London's
cure for traffic congestion [letters]
London Evening Standard
'Many
journey times cut by charge'
Roads
charge 'keeping shoppers away'
Safety
scare on Underground
Wednesday 19th February, 2003
BBC
10,000
chased for congestion fine
Congestion
poster 'misleading'
Financial Times *
Thousands
avoid paying London traffic toll
Guardian
10,000
motorists face first day fines for avoiding congestion charge
Dearer
petrol pumps up inflation
Our
decongested city is simply a breath of fresh air [letters]
Independent
Congestion
charge rakes in £1m and sways the critics
Rail
union calls new strikes in pay dispute
Telegraph
National
toll next says Ken
Motoring:
Congestion charging
Jail
sleepy drivers who kill
Times
Road
toll scheme 'losing £100,000 a day'
Congestion
by numbers
The
ripple effect [graphic]
Travellers'
tales
Tube
safety guides may have cut toll
Drivers
on phone who kill face five years' jail
Channel
rail link [letter]
Buses
to the rescue [letter]
London Evening Standard
'10,000
drivers' fail to pay charge
Freight
bosses slam charge 'shambles'
Tube
line re-opens after crash
Tuesday 18th February, 2003
BBC
A stress-free
drive to London
First congestion
fines to go out
Congestion
charging: in pictures
Speed limit
blunder could mean payout
Financial Times *
Smooth
start for London's traffic scheme
Extra
buses 'pay off' as Tube escapes rush
A
taste of life without gridlock wins converts to Ken's cause
Half-term
launch pays off for travellers
Free-wheeling
Guardian
Whatever
happened to rush hour?
In
a car
On
the buses
On
the perimeter
On
the tube
At
a paypoint
Traders'
beef
The
rest of Britain
Chaos,
mayhem, dead cyclists... well, no, the streets are empty [comment]
Manchester
opens to low-cost airline
Independent
'C'
is for calm: commuters stay away as London brings in congestion charge
London
has that Sunday morning feeling as drivers desert the roads
Control
centre staff get to work on the charge's litmus test - sending out fines
Businesses
cash in on congestion benefits
Telegraph
Third
of cars deterred
£5
fee met with resignation
To
Red Ken: father doing well [comment]
Livingstone
goes to market [leader]
Times
The
day the lights turned green
A
quarter of the capital's drivers take a hike
Relieved
Ken leaves lone snail trailing
Motorcyclists
'should have to pay as well'
Congestion
by numbers
How
to pay
Man
on the Clapham omnibus has his day
Virgin
cyclists ring the changes
Old
hands learn new ways and means of travel
Edinburgh
'3 years to learn from mistakes'
Congestion
questions [letter]
EasyJet
swoops in for vacant capacity in France
Pop!
The bubble must burst for cheap flights [comment]
The Mirror
D
CONGESTION DAY
Bouquets
and brickbats as the Wizard of Westminster pulls ANOTHER fast one
RYANAIR'S
WHEEL DEAL
The Sun
Ken's
con-gestion charge
London Evening Standard
Charged
traffic flows smoothly
Airport
access road reopens
Monday 17th February, 2003
BBC
Smooth
start for congestion charge
Head-to-head:
Congestion charging
Why Ken's charge
will do damage for years to come [Steve Norris]
Police
clamp down on drink drivers [N Ireland]
Transport
"failing" [Panorama programme - transcript]
Financial Times *
Drivers
face two months of chaos
Hard
to operate but necessary, says traffic toll chief
Livingstone's
gamble crucial to poll hopes
Excellent
value for money - but it won't last
Tube
journey fears turn into pleasant surprise
An
end to gridlock [leader]
Guardian
Thousands
of drivers leave it late as congestion charge starts
Norris
pledges to jettison £5 charge
Bill
for outside advice on railways triples to £39m
Paying
for traffic [leader]
Dreams
for cities can come true
Independent
Livingstone
predicts 'difficult few days' as congestion charge begins
Councils
plan new court challenge to revised airport plans
Telegraph
Ken
wants bigger zone
London's
deadliest enemy - Mayor Livingstone
Parcel
van surcharge in West End condemned
Blind
alleys on the road to paying
Congestion
charging's real test: will it choke off jobs?
Tories
choose Norris
Times
Fuel
tax emerges as new weapon to curb air travel
Late
payers spark fears of traffic charge chaos
Scooters,
buses, feet and trains take the strain
London
crawling [leader]
Take
Ken's £5 decongestant medicine and be glad today. It's London's
last hope
Rejection
of green tax on air travel [letters]
Heralding
London driving charge [letters]
Buses
to the rescue [letters]
London Evening Standard
All
quiet as charge bites
Smithfield
workers in protest march
I
was first past the post!
Rail
power lines collapse
Brave
new world [leader]
Central
line misery [leader]
Blue
skies thinking [leader]
Prescott
is building in the wrong place [Simon Jenkins]
******
Wednesday 12th February, 2003
BBC
Greenhouse
gases 'at record levels'
UK 'may
fail on climate cuts'
Thorny
issue of congestion charges
Financial Times *
Blow
to scheme as car park operator offers £5 discount
Climate
change targets 'will be missed'
Guardian
Gearbox
suspected in tube crash
Independent
News
flash: speed cameras are making our roads safer
Telegraph
Ryanair
flights offer 'avoids Hoover-style gaffe'
NCP
fees reduced [London]
Times
Minister
rejects call for green tax on air travel
Britain's
weather to warm up even faster
I
don't hate cars, says Livingstone
MPs
give short shrift to traffic charge scheme
Ryanair
flies into the credit market
Retailers
fear effect of mayor's congestion charge
Auditors
at Midland Metro refuse to sign off accounts
It
cost a pound to fail to speak to the Oz of the fortress kingdom of Congestia
Tuesday 11th February, 2003
BBC
More speed cameras
for Britain
Call for
end to rail privatisation [Scotland]
Gritters to
be forced out in icy conditions
Reward
to catch speed trap bomber
Oliver's
recipe for airport future
Guardian
BA
sees zero growth ahead
Eurotunnel
breaks even in cash
Banishing
congestion [leader]
Poor
will be hit by car tax [letters]
Independent
Blair
signals support for 'spy in sky' road pricing
Tube
line likely to be closed for several weeks
Telegraph
Estuary
airport urged to replace Cliffe
Taken
for a ride [railway funding]
British
Airways braced for rough ride
Eurotunnel
on track with interest bill
Times
Fines
may rise to deter core of speeding drivers
Drivers
urged to put cheque on charges
SNP
promise to 'take back' rail services
BA
expects flat sales in 'tough market'
Tunnel
operator calls for rail boost
Free
thinking and London transport [letter]
Congestion
charge [letter]
Tube
leader [letter]
London Evening Standard
Congestion
charge profits 'overestimated'
Monday 10th February, 2003
Financial Times *
Ministers
'should back' road fee
Mobile
parkers driven off street
Guardian
Ministers
'muddled over road charging'
SRA
'forcing freight from rail to lorries'
Ready,
Ken?
Independent
Mayor
'should have tested traffic charge'
Rail
tunnel firm ignored subsidence warnings, say residents
Telegraph
Fee
'punishes poor'
Times
Hole
swallows gardens as rail link rattles East End
Old
firm powers fuel-cell revolution
Sunday 9th February, 2003
BBC
Congestion
scheme criticised by MPs
Independent on Sunday
Traffic
charge 'is unfair to the poor'
Observer
Hard
shoulder will be used to beat gridlock
Off-shore
cities floated as cure for overcrowding
Sunday Telegraph
Concrete
for Kent
Sunday Times
Labour’s
road plans put rare species at risk
Overworked
pilots snooze at controls
Dublin’s
new metro is to be sunk, along with €3bn
Saturday 8th February, 2003
BBC
'Irate'
passengers stuck on Eurostar
Financial Times *
Call
for extension of London congestion charge
Tube
head's learning trek
Independent
American
freight train chief takes over the Tube
Telegraph
Speed
camera is blown up
US
freight boss heads the Tube
Times
Cameras
catch more drivers
Long
ride of cattle-train boss taking over Tube
Long
and the short of commuting
It's
big, it's red and it's free. And it will save London [comment]
London Evening Standard
Prescott
is building in the wrong place [comment]
Friday 7th February, 2003
BBC
American
lawyer named Tube chief
Delay
to new train carriages
Financial Times *
Tory
mayor would abolish traffic tariff
Guardian
Bosses'
rescue bid for commuter boats
Jump
in number of journeys by car
Public
will pay up to £50m to ensure new trains stand idle
EU
legal eagle shreds BAA's golden share protection
Monti
drives home car message
Independent
Bush
asks Congress to fund hydrogen cars
Train
blunder costs taxpayer £100m
Thousands
stranded by collapse of second-biggest French airline
Telegraph
Hundreds
of new trains sidelined
Bush
backs hydrogen as fuel source
Times
Safety
fears over paying road charge by mobile
Another
American set to take over the Tube
New
trains cancelled as expansion plans shrink
Commuting?
Your chance to let off steam
Turin
car clubs lead drive to ease congestion
Jurys
plans €34m Heathrow hotel
Golden
share in BAA 'illegal'
Air
Lib grounded as last-ditch talks fail
Collapse
fuels budget airlines plans
Taxpayers
should not feed the jams
Thursday 6th February, 2003
Financial Times *
Prescott
says homes plan will need 'phenomenal' cash amount
Business
support for traffic zone wavering
Darling
accepts rail safety advice
Air
Lib on brink of bankruptcy as talks fail
Guardian
Billions
promised for house-building bonanza
Amey
shudders as tram project hits £100m crisis
Independent
Capital
offence
Times
£22bn
plan 'to bulldoze North and concrete South'
Prescott
to advance along line of least resistance
Green
fields of Kent will vanish under red brick
Building
land for the future [graphic]
Tramlink
backers get on board for refinance talks
Air
rivals force fares down
Charging's
effect on London traffic [letters]
London Evening Standard
Campaigners
warn over housing plans
Wednesday 5th February, 2003
BBC
Speed camera
destroyed by bomb
Exeter
faces gridlock
Road rage
attack on child
Financial Times *
Deal
would close diesel duty gap by 2012
Guardian
Blizzards
bring road chaos
Drivers
sign up to pay capital toll
Tube
deal leaves Livingstone to solve overcrowding
O'Leary
tells Buzz unions: I'll close you down
Independent
Money
down the Tube?
Telegraph
Ryanair
cuts Buzz flights
London
traffic falls 18pc
Strike
and we close Buzz, Ryanair chief tells pilots
I
got beat, Mayor says of Tube fight
Times
Traffic
toll chiefs warn of lengthy disruption
New
Connex trains will have no toilets
Mayor
abandons Tube campaign
Tram
project threatens to be PFI casualty
Ryanair
chief threatens to close buzz
Uncertain
trading spurs MyTravel to cut 700 jobs
Why
rail will never deliver Blair's promise [Alistair Morton]
Ryanair
formula is paying off
Cuts
in rail services
London Evening Standard
New
warning on Tube overcrowding
Tuesday 4th February, 2003
BBC
'No benefit
from Heathrow expansion'
Financial Times *
BAA
points out flaw in plans for Heathrow runway
Avoiding
the charge fuels the engines of innovation
Tradesmen's
customers face traffic zone premiums
Guardian
Deputy
takes BAA's top slot - and the flak flies
Has
the buzz gone out of low-cost airlines?
Independent
Livingstone
to run the PPP
Telegraph
BAA
ready to 'ride out' war traffic loss
TfL
makes deal on Tube privatisation
Times
Boycott
congestion toll, says car group
Minister
underwrites SRA
Heir
apparent to take over hot seat at BAA
RoadChef
wins contract to run M6 Toll services
Why
a little snow led to travel chaos
Monday 3rd February, 2003
BBC
No benefit
from Heathrow expansion'
Financial Times *
Arriva
wins £207m interim rail franchises
Aslef
demand on drivers' pay increases risk of rail walkout
Guardian
Threat
of national rail strikes over pay
Independent
Rail
union backs strikes in fight for national rate
Telegraph
Charge
zone monitored
Rail's
green light from credit agencies
Times
Train
drivers threaten strike over equal pay
Rail
on the right lines
London Evening Standard
Blame
game over gridlock
Sunday 2nd February, 2003
BBC
Travel disruption
slow to ease
Ticket
staff agree pay rise [Arriva]
Independent on Sunday
Prescott
plans new homes on green sites
US
motorists' chance to go armour-plated
Observer
U-turn
as Darling admits responsibility for travel chaos
We
get the chaos we deserve [comment]
Prescott's
homes plan will blight green land
Sunday Telegraph
To
grit or not to grit
Sunday Times
London
gets 2,000 anti-car ‘soldiers’
No
escape in congestion charge London
Forecasts
to be focus of snow chaos inquiry
Ryanair
set to be global highest flier
Prescott
fires up southeast building boom
Saturday 1st February, 2003
BBC
Winter travel
misery continues
Snow brings
chaos to London
Why can't we
cope with bad weather?
Green transport
system dealt blow [Wales]
Second
train collides at crossing
Jail for
bus queue killer
Banned
driver jailed for crash death
Killer
driver gets 5 years
Financial Times *
Icy
weather causes travel chaos in UK
Guardian
Ryanair
swallows up ailing rival for £15m
Stranded
in a winter blunderland
The
wrong kind of air halts Eurostar in its tracks
Durham
scheme charges ahead
Railway
sickness [leader]
Britain
at a standstill [leader]
Independent
Recriminations
fly as UK freezes to a halt
For
thousands, this was their longest (and coldest) day
Ryanair
seizes ailing Buzz in challenge to easyJet
Telegraph
Gritting
law pledge after ice chaos
Ryanair
buys Buzz
Times
True
grit, or lack of it, brings out best in British
Miserable
night at Stansted for 10,000
Roads
and railways blocked in Europe
Ryanair
promises quick profits at Buzz
Ryanair
makes a Buzz [graphic]
Ryanair
out to ensure expansion is painless
London Evening Standard
Fire
alert brings new Tube delays
Friday 31st January, 2003
BBC
Ryanair
snaps up rival airline Buzz
Rail plans
'short-change' Scotland
Railing against
the train companies [ECML voxpop]
FT *
30bn
railway spending may provide few improvements
Guardian
Road
charge row as tube line shuts for two more weeks
Dismay
for passengers as rail modernisation hits the buffers
Independent
Rail
network 'will miss target to increase number of passengers'
The
£30bn question: can our railways ever get back on track?
Ryanair
buys Buzz for £15m
Telegraph
SRA:
We'll get private cash
Bottom
line for Network Rail
Rail
improvements on hold
Times
Drivers
face night in cold as snow brings roads to a halt
Railways
abandon £10bn plans for improved services
Rail
spending hits the buffers [graphic]
Rail
project to test plan for funding
Central
Line closures to continue until March
Ryanair
set to order more jets
Tube
congestion [letter[
London Evening Standard
Cross-London
rail project faces delay
Thursday 30th January, 2003
BBC
Rail upgrades
feel financial pinch
Taking
flight to attract tourists [inbound air services to Scotland]
Financial Times *
Network
Rail chiefs could earn more than £1m
Brussels
warns on 'open skies'
Independent
Drivers
face 1,000 new road cameras
Times
Rail
chiefs abandon targets for growth despite rising demand
'Posh'
shops will pay congestion charge to keep customers sweet
London Evening Standard
Cross-London
rail project faces delay
Wednesday 29th January, 2003
BBC
Tube lines
remain closed
Guardian
Mayor
attacks tube chiefs
Telegraph
Livingstone
close to Tube deal
Bottom
line for Network Rail
Times
Cheating
drivers will escape fee-zone fines
Rail
apologists resort to wrong kind of words
Congestion
charge [letter]
Tube crash
[letter]
London Evening Standard
Four
weeks to examine derailed tube train
Tuesday 28th January, 2003
BBC
Analysis: Investigating
the Tube crash
Financial Times *
Livingstone
backs down over Tube
Commuters
face week without full Tube service
Straight
run for tilting train
Guardian
Announcing
the arrival (at last) of the Pendolino
Mayor
and ministers close in on tube deal
Managing
the tube [leader]
London's
calling for a new approach on transport [letters]
Independent
Tube
lines to stay shut for crash inquiry
Telegraph
Tube
lines shut for now
Times
Mayor
is urged to delay road tolls after Tube crash
McConnell
gives pledge on new city bypass
Complex
decisions on the railways [letters]
London Evening Standard
LU
knew about fault
Livingstone
'close to deal on PPP'
Monday 27th January, 2003
BBC
Tube shutdown
hits commuters
First passengers
to use tilting train
Getting
trams back on track [Nottingham]
Financial Times *
Call
for halving of maximum speed on Central line Tube
Guardian
A
tube train was checked for safety. Two days later it crashed
Commuters
face weeks of chaos
Derailment
fuels safety debate
Tourists
can evade congestion charge, debt collectors admit
This
charge is a charter for the rich [comment]
Road
cameras raise arrests
Whitehall
backs BAA on fees
Independent
Commuters
face weeks of disruption after Tube crash
Residents
fail to register for congestion charge discount as confusion over scheme
persists
Telegraph
Weeks
of chaos after crash
Traffic
'already falling' [London]
Times
Central
and City lines stay shut after Tube crash
Alert
on 'noises' failed to halt Tube crash train
'The
panic welled up as the dust came through'
Tales
from the Underground
Why
the Tube train crashed at Chancery Lane [graphic]
Down
the tube [leader]
Sunday 26th January, 2003
BBC
Tube headache
for London's commuters
Drivers
miss traffic charge deadline
Weeks of
delays for Tube commuters
Search
for speed camera attacker
Independent on Sunday
Motor
failure caused Tube crash
Investigation
to focus on maintenance of electrical equipment on the train
Accident
is worst since King's Cross fire in 1987
Schools
fear 'zone-dodger' rat runs
Lesson
for Ken as army ants charge without congestion
Oil
price soars as American stocks shrink
Observer
Vital
railway projects ditched as budget cuts bite
Gridlock
fears outside London charging zone
Thirty
hurt in Tube tunnel horror
Airlines
in a steep dive
Sunday Telegraph
Tube
funding talks get heated
Saudis:
No oil shortage during war
Sunday Times
SRA
to unveil high-speed £6bn rail link
United
mortgages its Heathrow slots
Londoners
pay charge by txt
Saturday 25th January, 2003
BBC
'Sort
it out' Darling tells rail bosses
Getting
trams back on track
Agency
to end airport row [Exeter]
Financial Times *
Time
for a solution to urban gridlock
Price
to be paid for congestion charge
Tube
talks 'right up to the wire'
Senior
director at rail authority disciplined
Telegraph
Rail
upgrades in the sidings
Times
Director
quits Rail Authority
Friday 24th January, 2003
Independent
Passengers
trapped in Tube 'close to disaster'
Times
Tube
delay was nearly a disaster
Overcrowded?
We don't know what you mean [Tube]
KLM
may forgo control of buzz
Railway
capacity [letter]
****
Saturday 18th January, 2003
BBC
RAC pledges
to end battery scam
Financial Times *
Grants
for rail freight facilities are cut
Railtrack
investors set for one of great revolts in corporate history
Guardian
Eastward
Ho! Go-ahead for 40-mile linear city along the Thames
Congestion
charge faces late payment jams
Subsidy
cut for freight
Car
wars [comment]
Recycle
cars [letters[
Telegraph
Thames
Valley toll plan
Railtrack
shareholders 'put New Labour on trial'
Times
Cut
in rail subsidy to cause 5 million extra lorry trips
Looming
clouds of war cast shadow over an industry struggling to soar [airlines]
London Evening Standard
No
congestion charge [change] before mayor poll
Friday 17th January, 2003
Financial Times *
Train
users may have to travel in shabbier carriages
Guardian
Dismay
at 'thinning out' of rail services
Gladstone's
platform [comment]
Independent
Cars
offer better deal than buses, study says
Analysis:
London at the crossroads as 40,000 motorists await the final realisation
of Ken Livingstone's big idea
The
psychological gamble at the heart of this daring transport policy
Telegraph
Thousands
may miss toll deadline
Norwich
Airport top bidder
Times
Cuts
in train timetable will worsen road jams
Rail
travel costs up more than a third over past 20 years
Six
Virgin services will be scrapped in northern Scotland
The
shrinking railway [graphic]
Extra
security ordered for the Tube
Charter
flights more punctual than scheduled rivals
Thursday 16th January, 2003
BBC
Train services
to be cut
Financial Times *
Railways
agency abandons passenger targets
SRA
consultants' bill is £18m
[subscription only]
New
setback for promised rail safety plan
[subscription only]
Fleet
car managers warned of fines over insurance
Low-cost
airline to serve Spain from Scotland
Guardian
New
rail plan to improve punctuality - cut the number of trains
Independent
100
trains a day axed 'to improve service'
Telegraph
'Drive
a 4x4, help a terrorist' [US]
Times
Darling
has doubts over congestion boundary
SUVs
are a danger, says safety chief [US]
Lining
up the no-frills rivals on the net
Heathrow
runways [letter]
Wednesday 15th January, 2003
BBC
Railway fear
in Commons report [Wales]
Guardian
Congestion
charge to be spent on buses
Telegraph
MPs
consider Thames airport
Times
Modern
trains delayed for two more years
£500
bounty puts brakes on drink-drivers
Airbus
aims to overtake Boeing as number one
Rail
contract worries send Jarvis tumbling
Birmingham Post
Airport
decision is year away [Rugby]
Tuesday 14th January, 2003
BBC
UK 'faces abandoned
car mountain'
Financial Times *
Brakes
put on pricing voters out of cars
Daily
commute by train 'bad for health'
Transport
holds up London's Olympic bid
Guardian
Accident-prone
stretch of railway 'renationalised'
Number
of dumped cars set to soar
Plans
to increase UK airport capacity
Ryanair
complains to OFT about higher fees
Mayor
to appoint roadwork tsar
Prescott
faces counterattack on the edge of town
Independent
Fears
over delay in fitting train safety system
Network
Rail takes direct control of maintenance work
Telegraph
Amey
loses rail contract
Back
to BR era
Times
Track
upkeep reverts to control of Network Rail
Drivers
get in a jam buying congestion charge tickets
BAA
moves more passengers
Knight
shift for the Tube
Countdown
to the congestion charge [letters]
London Evening Standard
Government
and airlines [Chris Mullin MP]
Airport
expansion [leader]
Monday 13th January, 2003
BBC
Airport backers
unveil £2bn plan [Severn]
Guardian
Airport
plan for Severn estuary
Threat
of u-turn on 'green' car loophole
Car
dumpers dodge law
Germany
sizes up ScotRail
Times
Heathrow
third runway will blight another 200,000 lives
London
car charge tickets go on sale
BoA
quits as finance adviser to Crossrail
Trains
like clockwork [letter]
London Evening Standard
Transport
revolution needed to back Olympic bid
Sunday 12th January, 2003
Observer
Official:
commuting is bad for you
Unions
revolt over London car charges
Give
the charge a chance [comment]
Scrap
this unfair tax
A
curse on cars
Bid
to reduce greenhouse gases 'is folly'
Sunday Times
Rebel
drivers pledge London charge ‘havoc’
Network
Rail gives banks first call on public funds
Power
switch jolts Islay’s eco-bus dream
Saturday 11th January, 2003
Times
Hit-and-run
death crash driver had killed on the road before
Sports
car show-off cost woman's life
German
railways ready to bid for British lines
Railtrack
battle fund tops £2m
All
together now, you SUV drivers ... 'hit the road, jerk' [comment]
Who
is in charge of congestion? [letters]
Friday 10th January, 2003
Telegraph
Wheels
come off bike industry as Chinese buy cars
Times
Cramped
passengers sold short as rail companies cash in
Pedestrians
grit teeth as councils stick to roads
Traffic
safety short of target
America's
gas-guzzlers facing end of the road
Airlines
complain Heathrow charges will squeeze industry
Proposals
for a new Central Railway [letter]
Thursday 9th January, 2003
Guardian
Tube
investors to make 19%
Times
Hard
core of motorists still drink and drive
Tube
consortium to earn £250m over six years
EasyJet
chief allays City fears as share price slides
Wednesday 8th January, 2003
BBC
Tube modernisation
plans set out
Train services
return to normal
Tram plans
derailed [Bristol]
Rare newt
protection scheme
Question
mark over station's future [W Midlands]
Guardian
Mayor
attacks PO on congestion charge
Congestion
charging will hurt, but it has to be done [comment]
Independent
New
car sales crash through 2.5 million barrier
Times
Lady
Macbeth: out, damned congestion charge, out
London Evening Standard
Tube's
£4.4bnmove to cut delays
Travellers
face more chaos
Tuesday 7th January, 2003
BBC
Freezing conditions
bring travel chaos
Record
year for UK car sales
Violence
drives buses off estate [S London]
Car club
plan to get Cornwall moving
Financial Times *
The
strain of taking the train [US planes v trains]
Halting
a cash runaway [ditto]
Guardian
Motorists
break sales record
Telegraph
Airlines
suffer as BA warns on outlook
Times
C
is for cars, cameras, charges, controversy ... and chaos? [London]
Livingstone
tells Samaritans: You must pay car toll
SNP
calls for sale of airport
BA
and KLM warn of turbulence
Gulf
Air to buy new jets for budget carrier
Passengers
queue for 9p ride above a capital's chaos [Delhi Metro]
Maglev
trains [letters]
London Evening Standard
Snow
brings travel chaos
Monday 6th January, 2003
BBC
Pedal
power targets missed [Scotland]
Financial Times *
Doubts
that surround the mayor's big gamble [London]
Packed
Tube and trains leave buses poised to take the strain
All
eyes fixed on one man alone at the wheel [Ken]
Independent
Rail
union warns of unrest over pay policy
Times
France
tries to keep British freight railway on course
Sunday 5th January, 2003
Independent on Sunday
Focus:
Gridlock Britain
Rail
safety plan is put on hold
Observer
Blair
told to scrap new runway plans
Coming
to a street near you - a pile of rusty bangers
Sunday Telegraph
Another
rail delay
Sunday Times
Drivers
see red as cities copy Ken
Traffic
goldmine
Prescott’s
dithering puts key rail upgrades in mothballs
Congestion
charge scheme will make £28m for Capita
Saturday 4th January, 2003
BBC
Call for
road tolls debate [Edinburgh]
Financial Times *
Stalled
rail safety plans delayed again
Railway
safety patchy says HSE [subscription only]
Transport
plan failing 'because of economy'
[subscription only]
Darling
faces anger over creaking system
[subscription only]
Guardian
Rail
safety system faces delay
Telegraph
Budget
airlines fly high
BAA
staff agree 8pc pay deal
Times
Charging
'will deter 68% of motorists'
Ryanair
sees 64% rise in passenger numbers
Friday 3rd January, 2003
Guardian
Congestion
charges: an end to jams or road to nowhere?
'The
money must go to public transport'
Virgin
flights without an aircraft
Times
EasyJet
shares climb as aircraft deal is sealed
Congestion
charging [letter]
Thursday 2nd January, 2003
Independent
Romantic
names of rail travel consigned to history
Brighton-London
train derailed after rainfall causes landslide
Times
Mayor
has already cut car use by commuters
Traffic
charge is driving teachers out of London
Airline
to cut many domestic routes [BA]
Nuggets
of excellence in no-frills industry
Wednesday 1st January, 2003
Independent
Tube
Lines signs £4.4bn deal for Underground
Times
Central
London motorists are put on their marks
Jarvis
counts on huge profit from Tube deal
Benettons
bid to run Italy's roads
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