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Wednesday 30th June, 2004
BBC
London
in grip of Tube strike
MoT
exemption for NI drivers
July
date set for spending plans
Financial Times *
Tube
commuters face difficult day
Guardian
Union
leader warns of more tube walkouts
Asda
triggers more petrol price cuts
Railtrack
shareholders will see Byers in high court
Lasting
the distance [leader - air travel]
Independent *
Cost
of a gallon cut as oil price tumbles
Tube
strike chaos for three million commuters
Telegraph
Tube
strike hits millions
Times
Tube
strike set to cause chaos across the capital
Cyclists'
right of way [letter]
London Evening Standard
Tube
strike causes travel chaos
Mayor
backs Tube bosses
Edinburgh Evening News
Watchdog
fears rail switch will hit fares
Tuesday 29th June, 2004
BBC
Strike
chaos for Tube passengers
Air travel
rises across the world
Financial Times *
Commission
rules on FirstGroup takeover
Guardian
Chaos
fear as Tube strike goes ahead
FirstGroup
to undergo Scottish scrutiny - and pay for it
Jet-fuelled
rise for BA
Independent *
Chaos
for London commuters as Tube strike goes ahead
Telegraph
Rough
road ahead, warns RMC
Times
Strike
on Tube goes ahead tonight
Carmakers
fight French plan for gas-guzzler tax
Road
tax [letter]
Airwise News
IATA
Says World Air Traffic Soaring
Boeing
Vows Action On Airbus Aid
Monday 28th June, 2004
BBC
[Mersey]
Tunnels plans could raise tolls
Waite's
'unbroken concrete' fears [Stansted]
Buses
dropped in shelter fiasco
Guardian
Legal
battle hits no-frills 'toytown' airport [Coventry]
Independent *
Talks
aim to head off Tube walk-out chaos
Urban
4x4 drivers should pay more tax, says transport chief
Waite
speaks out over Stansted expansion
Winsor
warns ministers over rail shake-up
Times
Cyclists'
right of way [letters]
Sunday 27th June, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Families'
anger at plan to scrap rail safety watchdog
Ex-soldier
sues over DVT in first ever short-flight claim
Observer
Road
building set for major expansion
Home
buyers go further afield to beat city prices
Now
street racing is a 145mph girl thing
Sunday Telegraph
Police
want more speed cameras
Shell
heads for defeat
Sunday Times
Ferry
chief demands probe into Channel price-fixing claims
School-run
offroaders face tax hike
No-frills
rivals target Gatwick
Qantas
will create hundreds of cabin crew jobs in Britain
[Dublin]
Airport dogfight
Revealed:
how McCreevy saved Aer Rianta boss
Edinburgh Evening News
Parking
blamed as city tycoon closes stores
Saturday 26th June, 2004
BBC
Blair urged
to back speed cameras
Union
boss quits transport board [TfL]
Financial Times *
Better
timings improve journeys by train
Guardian
Livingstone
in 'scab' row
Independent *
Hidden
costs of pipeline meant to safeguard West's oil supply
Exposed:
BP, its pipeline, and an environmental timebomb
Trains
less punctual than before Hatfield
'It's
not how much they spend, but how it's run'
Crow
quits in strike row with mayor
Telegraph
Whitehall
rail review aims to tighten grip
RMT
chief quits board
Times
The
train arriving late costs you billions
Graphic:
Trains arriving on time
Rail
chairman is facing an uncertain future
Four
out of five passengers in Scotland happy with service
Union
rebukes Livingstone on call to break strike
These
hidden costs of cars drive me crazy
London Evening Standard
Mixed
ratings for London rail firms
Airwise News
Virgin
Express Q1 Loss Narrows
Friday 25th June, 2004
BBC
Death toll on
UK roads increasing
Railway spending
at all-time high
Union cancels
rail strike threat
Financial Times *
Security
rules 'likely to disrupt shipping'
Guardian
Born
again bikers cause chaos [safety]
Rail
strike called off after pension deal
BA
crew face tests after drink claims
Independent *
Pensions
deal halts rail strike
World's
biggest ocean liner does not meet fire regulations
Telegraph
Road
death rise blamed on speed cameras
Strike
called off
Go-Ahead
wing plummets
Times
Despite
cameras and promises, road deaths rise to 3,500 a year
New
car designs put pedestrians in danger
Graphic:
Car protection: star performers
Rail
strike off as both sides seek compromise
Giant
liner refitted after fire safety alert
Roadside
eating [letter]
Edinburgh Evening News
Vow
to boost road safety after rise in deaths
City
second on list of high flyers
Store
fears 10% tolls sales loss
Airwise News
US
Airports Must Boost Capacity To Meet Demand
Thursday 24th June, 2004
BBC
Ryanair
rapped over 'giveaway' ad
United
Airlines in new loan plea
Stagecoach
in £250m cash return
Guardian
Judge
to rule on 24-hour rail strike after legal challenge to union
Price
war continues to buffet P&O
Independent *
Stagecoach
cash return just the ticket for Souter and sister
Telegraph
Authorities
to halt rail strike
£3.5bn
car tax option
Stagecoach
back on high road
P&O
face half-year losses
Times
Rail
bosses say strike vote is haunted by ghost workers
Stagecoach
stands and delivers £250m back to investors
Aircraft
pollution [letter]
Road
hogs [letters]
London Evening Standard
Tube
hit by bad weather
Edinburgh Evening News
Road
tolls 'will drive customers out of city'
Tolls
chiefs 'deceiving public' says McLetchie
City
bosses blamed as rail link bid hits buffers
Airwise News
EU
Says No Air Deal With US Before Summit
Vietnam
Considers New Airport In South
Wednesday 23rd June, 2004
BBC
Transport Police
face criticism
Loan confirmed
to rescue Alitalia
Flying
into trouble - again [United airlines]
Financial Times *
More
cash urged for transport police
US
and EU fail to agree on air deal
Revamp
of €10bn car parts market delayed
Guardian
Environment
campaigners attack house building plans
France
launches radical green tax on bigger cars
Independent *
Tube
deal lifts Atkins back into the black
Telegraph
Rail
vote 'invalid'
Tube
group back on line
Edinburgh Evening News
Businesses
join forces to fight for [Borders] rail link
Airwise News
EU
Presses Belgians To Reclaim Ryanair Aid
Italy
Approves Alitalia Loan
Tuesday 22nd June, 2004
BBC
Millions face
rail travel misery
Financial Times *
EU
challenges UK over airport landing slots
Tube
and railway workers call joint strike
Guardian
National
rail strike to hit millions
Urbanites
head for the hills in droves
Virgin
to fly the kangaroo route in time for Christmas
Independent *
Chaos
threat as RMT votes for total strike
Telegraph
Union
calls national strike
Times
Rail
strike set to cause nationwide travel chaos
Townies
fail to turn green in rush to country
Fossil
fuels 'to dominate for next 30 years'
Airwise News
Brussels
Probes Heathrow Landing Slot Deals
Italy
Considers Alitalia Loan
Monday 21st June, 2004
BBC
New
powers to fine 'bad drivers' [London]
Financial Times *
Rail
freight rights under threat from reform plan
Guardian
Call
for volunteers to count roadkill
Finding
our feet [leader - walking]
Spanish
cyclists strip off to stress their plight
Telegraph
Cars
greener than trains
The
case for the car [leader]
AA
on the forecourt with £1.5bn price tag
Times
Best-laid
flight plans hit towering obstacle [London City]
Aircraft
pollution and policymaking [letter]
Motorway
services [letter]
Speed
cameras [letter]
Cyclists'
right of way [letter]
Sunday 20th June, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Prescott
warned over new homes plan
Observer
London
tackles 'peoplejams'
Sunday Times
City
exodus alters the countryside
Livingstone
to have a say over commuter lines
Executive
may take control of Scots railways
Scottish
infrastructure needs £10bn modernisation
Why
Transport Scotland belongs to Glasgow
Stagecoach
to hand back £
[15-19th June: records lost - apologies]
Monday 14th June, 2004
BBC
Firms demand
transport overhaul
Major
rail shake-up planned
'Chelsea will
die' [Congestion charge]
Tube
gangs tackled by new powers
Financial Times *
Airport
expansion opponents get day in court
CBI
calls for big rise in transport funding
Guardian
CBI
seeks another £70m for transport
Independent *
Labour
attempts to move on with new 30-year transport strategy
Family
find driver, 19, dead in field five hours after car crashes
Telegraph
Transport
needs £252bn
Times
Hold
on tight: the bus lanes are clear
Road
tax [letter]
Sunday 13th June, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Greener
London will target drivers
Fewer
trains, fares to rise, in shake-up of railways
Is
this the end of the line for the privatised railways?
EasyJet
finance chief under pressure from City to bail out
Observer
Aviation's
great survivor [BMI]
Motoring
towards an £80,000 bill
Sunday Telegraph
Nats
lands safely with £2m profit
It
don't come Easy [Stelios]
Sunday Times
Darling
to curb speed camera overkill
McConnell
faces ScotRail sleaze claim
Deer
bridges to cut car crashes
Network
Rail seeks to revamp its board
Easyjet's
wings are clipped by more bad news
Saturday 12th June, 2004
BBC
Passenger
ferry service revived
Steady
passenger growth for BAA
Rail franchise
frontrunner named [Scotland]
Financial Times *
Alitalia
warns of liquidation risk
Guardian
West
country link puts Darling on collision course
FirstGroup
takes over from axed ScotRail
Independent *
First
grabs ScotRail off National Express
Telegraph
FirstGroup
clinches rail franchise
Times
New
way ahead for Scots trains
Airports'
opponents stall plans on runway expansion
Winsor
has vision of floating trains
FirstGroup
to run most rail services in Scotland
Signal
for integrated transport
Britain
stalls aviation pact with the US
Airwise News
EU
Rejects US Open Skies Deal
UK
Resists US-EU Open Skies Deal
Friday 11th June, 2004
Times
Stores
start new fuel price war with 2p cut
Here's
another good reason why cyclists should wear a helmet
Thursday 10th June, 2004
BBC
Asda moves
to cool petrol prices
Guardian
Budget
airline fails to take off
4x4s
into Paris won't go - if SUV ban works
BT
to transform network with '21st century' upgrade
Independent *
Ice
core reveals a worrying truth about Earth's climate
Stelios
'keeps all options open' over easyJet bid
Now
a budget airline fails before take-off
Telegraph
Railways
'abandon safety'
Times
Rail
travel now nine times safer than going by car
Graphic:
Safety first
Not
a good platform for better rail
Gas-guzzlers
[letter]
Air
traffic controls [letters]
Airwise News
EU
Presidency Favors Phased US Open Skies Deal
Wednesday 9th June, 2004
BBC
New
link route for coastal towns [Hastings]
Resort's
council to sell airport [Blackpool]
Airline
grounded ahead of takeoff
Virgin
check trains over coupling
UK loses
hours to commuting
Is the
world's oil running out fast?
Independent *
Hydrogen-powered
engine for new Cobra boosts profile of clean energy
Telegraph
Speculators
helped raise oil price
'We
need the Middle East' [US oil]
Times
Rail
services to continue on separate tracks
Blame
system over train delays to end
Merged
Air France and KLM recover
Fuel
tax [letter]
Airwise News
Lufthansa
Traffic Up In May
Air
France-KLM Seeking More Cost Cuts
London Evening Standard
38C
on the buses
Tuesday 8th June, 2004
BBC
New car
costs 'top mortgage bill'
Britons
choose car over exercise
Commuting
takes more UK time
Greens
highlight pollution drive
Climate threat
to home insurance
What will
we drive when the oil runs out?
'Al-Qaeda'
threat to US airlines
Guardian
BA
chiefs forgo 'inappropriate' bonuses after cutting staff
EasyJet
reveals price war scars
Iata
boss explains how to tame five apocalyptic horsemen
Climate
change 'is costing millions'
Break
out the bicycles [comment]
Towards
sustainable [air] travel [letter]
Independent *
Airlines
told to end price discrimination
Stelios
may bid to take easyJet private after fresh profits shock
BA
chiefs waive £350,000 in bonuses
Telegraph
Profit
warning tailspin [easyJet]
BA
bosses refused £375,000 bonuses
Airlines
snub Heathrow chief
Times
Flights
pollution danger was hidden, say MPs
EasyJet
reviews network after renewed warning
BA
bosses waive annual bonuses
Airwise News
British
Airways Boss Says No To Bonus
EU
Airlines No Longer Discriminate On Prices
EasyJet
Sees Fuel Worries As Traffic Rises
SAS
Still Cautious As Traffic Rises
Airline
Worries Overshadow Airbus Output Rise
Paper
Tickets To Go As Carriers Cut Costs
Star
Alliance Critical Of BAA
London Evening Standard
Commuter
chaos as train fails
Monday 7th June, 2004
BBC
Police
detail speed camera sites [W Midlands]
Oil prices
to hit airline profits
Financial Times *
Ministers
plan overhaul of rail authority
Pilots
warn on longer flying hours
Guardian
Tabloid
spleen blamed for rise in attacks on traffic wardens
Share
don't buy. Drivers embrace car-based transport solution
How
low can they go? [lowcost airlines]
Independent *
Rail
Regulator calls for independent body to resolve contract disputes
Telegraph
Car
cost more than house
Driving
a hard bargain
Times
We
won't work unsafe extra hours, say pilots
Sunday 6th June, 2004
BBC
The real
cost of motoring
Hauliers stage
fuel price protest
Protest
over congestion charging
Cameras
for speeding black spot
Wind farms 'danger
to shipping'
Independent on Sunday *
SRA
to be stripped of power in rail shake-up
Observer
Plans
on track for new British Rail
Sunday Telegraph
Labour
voters support protests over fuel tax
Motorists'
misery is oil companies' ecstasy
Sunday Times
Ryanair
to boost capacity with new hubs
Monopoly
fears may block FirstGroup bid for ScotRail
O’Leary’s
gibe at Ahern flies in face of reason
Dublin
buses are world's slow coaches
Saturday 5th June, 2004
BBC
Transport
police 'cash-starved'
Oil slips
further after Opec deal
Fuel
protesters head for Cardiff
Election
day Tube strike off
Financial Times *
Protesters
offer breathing space on fuel prices
Guardian
Fuel
protesters call off 'go-slows'
Union
cancels election day tube strike
Transport
police lack funds, say MPs
Commit
to cutting carbon emissions [letter]
The
buck stops where? [leader - air traffic control]
Independent *
Fuel
protests postponed after rethink on tax rise
Livingstone
accused of secret deal to avert Tube strike
Police
who protect railways are 'ridiculously underfunded'
Telegraph
Fuel
protesters back down
Mandarins
warn against Bowker
Times
Oil
price drop takes heat out of fuel protest
Hydrogen
is the car fuel of tomorrow
Green
drivers get a taste for vegetable oil
Carmakers
count cost of 4x4 damages
Graphic:
4x4 pedestrian protection ratings
Edinburgh Evening News
Outcry
over McConnell's tolls support
Friday 4th June, 2004
BBC
Blair
to review UK petrol prices
Greens
urge fuel duty increases
Plans
'to counter' fuel protests
Oil slips
further after Opec deal
Are
you worried about rising oil prices?
Financial Times *
Computer
glitch grounds air travellers
Disruption
lands air traffic in spotlight
British
Airways alliance with Swiss collapses
Rail
code will keep operators better informed
Chancellor
to review his planned rise in duty
Guardian
Planes
grounded by computer crash
Date
set to abolish Skye bridge tolls
Brown
rethinks 2p petrol rise
BA
blackballs Swiss after fallout on frequent flyers
Brown
should stand firm on rising fuel prices [letters]
Independent *
Air
traffic computer crash brings airports to standstill
Patched-up
system has a history of problems
Brown
may postpone fuel duty rises to stop protests
Oil
prices soar despite Opec pledge to increase output
Bowker
calls summit of big rail operators
New
delays plunge Spanish rail link project into crisis
Telegraph
Fuel
duty rethink
Opec
increase fails to meet Brown's needs
Glitch
grounds flights
Forced
into manual mode
Queues
as long as patience is short
Times
Long
wait to beat air computer chaos
Frustrated
travellers sit it out in airport 'zoo'
Brown
confirms plan to scrap rise in fuel duty
Rationing
and driving ban to beat protests
End
is near for Skye tolls after 10 years
More
road tolls inevtiable, McConnell tells MSPs
I
love to hear the road lobby's howls of rage [comment]
Pie
in the sky [leader]
Airwise News
British
Airways May Passenger Traffic Up
Oil
Prices Threaten European Air Traffic Growth
Fuel
Costs, Security To Hog IATA Meeting
Air
Control Outage Grounds UK Air Traffic
London Evening Standard
Hundreds
to join C-charge demo
Transport
police hit by £9m cuts
Edinburgh Evening News
City
chiefs 'did not look at toll options'
Chaos
as UK flights brought to standstill
Thursday 3rd June, 2004
BBC
Bonuses
despite Network Rail loss
Computer failure
grounds flights
Opec
news awaited amid fuel row
Tube
strike set for election day
Pumped
up? UK motorists discuss the price of petrol
Renault
launches 5,000 euro car
Discounts
drive US car sales rise
London
hails first hybrid taxi
Financial Times *
Network
Rail hails improvements despite losses
Livingstone
gets rough ride with the Tube
[Oil]
Cost surge holds few fears for growth
Drivers
pin blame on government
Police
have wide powers to thwart protests
Guardian
Tube
strike to hit mayor's election
Threat
of new petrol protests in UK
How
to beat the price hike
$2
rate angers US drivers
Passengers
angered by huge payouts to rail bosses
In
1973, rising oil prices meant recession. Not now
Independent *
Duty
on fuel provides £23bn for the Treasury
Howard
accused of electoral opportunism by backing petrol protests as prices rise
The
farmers and truck drivers who almost brought Britain to a halt reignite
campaign
SRA
chief lobbies Cabinet to keep rail body's power intact
Greenhouse
gas crisis, 55 million years ago
Telegraph
Howard
backs protests
Petrol
duty rise 'can go on hold'
Brown's
oil myths [leader]
Motorist
banned over camera alert
I've
had enough of being told what I can't do with my car
Bonuses
for failing [Network Rail]
Gravy
train on time [leader]
Renault
to sell £3,200 car
The
car that can see around corners
Times
Secret
Heathrow plan to set noise levels soaring
Graphic:
Noise increase
Brown
ready to drop fuel tax rise if prices stay high
Superstore
fuel deals drive off the competition
Billions
of reasons to halt tax rise
Graphic:
The cost at pumps
Oil
price eases as Saudi Arabia loosens its grip
A
quick guide to how the global oil business works
Rail
bosses get £500,000 for failure
Network
Rail debts to reach £20 billion
Company
believes it is on the slow track to recovery
Pedestrian
protest earns driving ban
Airwise News
ADP
Plans Expansion Despite Accident
Fraport
Sees 50 Million Passengers In 2004
Edinburgh Evening News
Road
tolls 'unfair' to city centre taxpayers
Wednesday 2nd June, 2004
Guardian
Budget
airlines doomed, says Ryanair chief
Oil
price soars to new high
Rebels
seek to halt free airport parking for MPs
Independent *
O'Leary
warns of 'bloodbath' as Ryanair suffers first drop in profits
Brown
fights hike in oil price
Motorists
gearing up to fight petrol price rises
Father
shot in head over parking
Telegraph
Petrol
at £1 a litre
The
most expensive petrol in Britain
Ryanair's
first profits fall
BAA
faces vote over £1m 'gift'
BAA's
past-it perk
Times
Petrol
price fears prompt plea to Opec
BAA
shareholders may clamp MPs' free parking
Ryanair
makes its first loss as growth stalls
World’s
second-largest carrier levies $5 on fuel
Oil
price leads to turbulence for airlines
Low-cost
carrier offers only turbulence for shareholders
Airwise News
Ryanair
Warns Of Tough Winter As Profit Slips
London Evening Standard
CPRE:
ban greenfield Thames development
All
change at King's Cross
Edinburgh Evening News
First
stage of 20mph school speed limit drive begins
Tuesday 1st June, 2004
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Long
commutes add pounds, subtract exercise time
BBC
[Lorry] Road
charge 'costly and complex'
Network Rail
reduces train delays
Call for
mandatory cycle helmets
Law
change call over road death
Workers 'pay
for shorter commute'
Financial Times *
Train
delays caused by crumbling infrastructure fall by 20%
Weight
of history burdens Mersey crossing
Guardian
Climate
disaster 'upon us' [Lovelock]
Network
Rail lauds progress
Getting
back on track [leader]
Aviation
wars hotting up [letters[
From
Kyoto to contract and converge [letters]
Telegraph
Homes
will devastate UK
Prescott's
metropolis [leader]
Cheap
flights causing delays
Pollution
'hurts fat children more'
3i
steams into UK rail arena
China
plans car plant curbs
Times
Chaos
ahead on trains after mainline closure
Sorry
for the delay: Network Rail is running 500,000 minutes late
Speeding
drivers [letters]
Airwise News
Air
India To Launch Discount Airline
Edinburgh Evening News
£10m
'river bus' plan to boost Fife's links to city
Monday 31st May, 2004
BBC
City
tram project to be dropped [Bristol]
Guardian
Rail
closures bring longest disruption since 1966
Independent *
BA
fears 'open skies' deal
Is
there a doctor on the plane? No, they're too worried about being sued
London Evening Standard
Protesters
gather at airport [Stansted]
Sunday 30th May, 2004
BBC
Major rail works
cause disruption
Oil retreats
below $40 a barrel
[N Sea]
Oil reserves 'may stay untapped'
New engines
threaten petrol's dominance
Observer
O'Leary
warns of low-cost 'bloodbath' in the skies
Eurotunnel
to ditch chairman as crisis grows
Cameras
to catch uninsured drivers
Cycle
lane death: family plans to sue
Britain
divided over calls to dump the hump
Sunday Times
Edinburgh
congestion charge 'would create pollution'
Saturday 29th May, 2004
BBC
12m 'to hit
Bank Holiday roads'
Rail delays
hitting Bank Holiday
Airport workers
vote for strike
Financial Times *
Germans
told to stop braking as petrol price rises start to bite
Guardian
Airport
architect denies ignoring warnings
Making
the car a star
Telegraph
New
homes with mod cons but nowhere to park a car
New
home buyers will not be allowed to park on the street
Times
Threat
to gridlock cities over fuel prices
Airwise News
Germanwings
Looks To Eastern Europe
Edinburgh Evening News
Green
belt green light for parking
Friday 28th May, 2004
Financial Times *
OFT
refers National Express rail bid to competition watchdog
Guardian
Anger
at 'gag' on pollution report
Independent *
Anglia
rail takeover referred to competition watchdog
Telegraph
Anglia
sale running late
Times
One
million take flight as holiday chaos looms
Airwise News
IATA
Sees Strong [global] Traffic Rise
Airbus
Sees A380 Break Even By 2010
London Evening Standard
Rail
closures hit holiday travel
Thursday 27th May, 2004
BBC
Accessible transport
law urged
Safety concerns
on Europe ferries
'Supergun'
to catch out speeders
Plans give
assembly rail powers [Wales]
Guardian
Officials
try to hide rise in transport pollution
Speeders
on the fast-track to court
Go-Ahead
chief's defiant farewell
Independent *
'Global
warming is as big a threat to the world as terrorism'
A
modest proposal to save the planet [Mayer Hillman]
Times
Rising
prices put the brake on gas guzzlers
Airwise News
Qantas'
Asian Airline To Fly By November
London Evening News
Mayor:
I'll sort out tube and trains next
Edinburgh Evening News
Bus
firm joins drive to cut air pollution
Wednesday 26th May, 2004
BBC
Free [school]
transport legal challenge [Wales]
Oil prices
resume upward progress
Ryanair
contests Charleroi ruling
Airport
victory in planning row [Coventry]
Motoring
through the urban jungle
Guardian
Livingstone's
£4bn pledge for Tube
Ryanair
appeals against loss of £3m Belgium aid
EU
rules 'may put £3,000 on car prices'
Independent *
Blair
outlines strategy to cut global warming
Telegraph
EU
drives up prices
EU
drives up car prices
Screw
the share price, this is war, says O'Leary
Times
Speed
cameras to catch drivers a mile away
Labour's
poor transport record [letter]
Speeding
drivers [letters]
Airwise News
Ryanair
Appeals EU Subsidies Order
Frankfurt
Airport Expansion Delayed
Edinburgh Evening News
Protest
on fuel to bring city to a halt
Tuesday 25th May, 2004
BBC
Oil price
soars despite Saudi vow
Financial Times *
Probe
launched into Paris airport collapse
France
to raze airport terminal if building proves unsafe
Guardian
Fears
of new Paris airport collapse
Independent *
Investigators
are forced to leave unstable air terminal
Lufthansa
in €750m rights issue
Scientist's
plea to use nuclear energy starts new climate change debate by green groups
Times
Paris
terminal may have to be demolished
Airwise News
Terminal
Collapse A Blow To ADP Future
New
Cracks At Paris Air Terminal
Lufthansa
Raising Capital To Buy Planes
Edinburgh Evening News
Rail
leaders outline £630m Waverley plan
Traffic
tolls dodgers rat-run warning
Chiefs
'hijacked' road tolls ideas
Hotels
cashing in as cheap flights take off
Monday 24th May, 2004
BBC
Municipal
airport 'could be sold' [Gloucester]
4x4
drivers 'idiotic' - Livingstone
Financial Times *
Rail
talks planned to head off chaos
Probe
launched into Paris airport collapse
Guardian
New
cameras to catch tailgaters
Six
die as roof of showcase terminal in Paris collapses
Four
die as roof section collapses at Charles de Gaulle airport
Independent *
'Only
nuclear power can now halt global warming'
Guru
who tuned into Gaia was one of the first to warn of climate threat
'The
ice is melting much faster than we thought'
Motoring
groups oppose calls for random drink-driving tests
Telegraph
Five
die as airport roof collapses
City's
£500m dream lies in ruins
[Rail]
Claims would cost £40m
Main
rail bodies in dispute on high costs
Times
Fuel
tax 'must rise to fund transport plans'
Police
plan traffic cameras to clamp down on tailgaters
Five
killed as new terminal building collapses at airport
Death
terminal 'was a rush job'
As
China gets motoring, will the pumps run dry? [comment]
Roadwork
rethink would cost jobs [letter]
Sunday 23rd May, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Mayor
pledges 'friendly' buses
Observer
BA
wages long-haul price war
The
Hummer humbled
Rail
bosses hatch plot to defeat the strike
Scandal
of our deadly cycle lanes
Sunday Times
Reaction
tests for older drivers
Virgin
eyes $1bn Airbus contract
Oil
running out is our real crisis [letters]
Saturday 22nd May, 2004
Times
Transport
bar to London Olympics [letters]
Friday 21st May, 2004
BBC
Putin
U-turn could rescue Kyoto
Independent *
Rail
chiefs threaten legal action to avert nationwide strikes
Times
Rail
strike looms in pay and pensions dispute
Speed
limit may vary for road condition
Trains
don't stop here? They do now
A380
hits turbulence while still in the factory
Fast-track
race for Olympic London
Travelling
the Zil lane to Stratford in super-slow time
Airwise News
US,
EU Close To Open Skies Deal
Asian
Airlines Can Weather High Fuel Prices
Thursday 20th May, 2004
Financial Times *
French
road toll slashed after safety campaign
Guardian
Threat
of rail stoppage over pay
Rescue
service radios silenced in Tube
Germans
'will make trains run on time'
Independent *
Planestation
buys stake in no-frills airline
Telegraph
Petrol
tax rise still likely
Times
'Best
trains' shunted to siding
Motorway
congestion [letter]
Airwise News
EasyJet
To Challenge Air France-KLM Merger
Record
Passenger Numbers Lift BAA Profit
British
Airways Posts Higher Earnings
Virgin
Atlantic Postpones A380 Deliveries
Yorkshire Post
Bridge
too far for toll campaign [Humber]
Wednesday 19th May, 2004
BBC
New
Channel ferry service starts
Blair
urged to halt fuel tax rise
Kennedy
attack over Kyoto
Clamour
for more oil intensifies
US airlines
give profit warning
Easyjet
challenges KLM takeover
Financial Times *
'Widen
motorways to cut congestion'
Guardian
Doubts
on train safety system
BAA
sees passenger figures rise
Virgin
adds £5 fuel surcharge
Scientists
hand Putin weapon to kill Kyoto treaty
Independent *
EasyJet
to challenge Air France-KLM merger
BAA
forecasts 6% air travel growth
Telegraph
Speed
cameras 'in wrong place'
BAA
sets aside £100 million [Stansted compensation]
Times
Transport
mess dooms Britain's Olympic hopes
Cost
blamed for delay to rail safety system
Long-haul
recovery helps to lift BAA
Drivers
exceeding the speed limit [letters]
Tuesday 18th May, 2004
Independent *
Norris
pledges to make Tube safe for women
Times
Cost
of not cutting carbon emissions [letter]
Monday 17th May, 2004
BBC
Six killed
in seven-car pile-up
New speed penalty
plans welcomed
BA 'is
still business favourite'
Financial Times *
Speeding
penalties may be graded in review
Rail
union threatens industrial action
Edinburgh
names tramway operator
Guardian
Safety
warning as Europe's skies come close to saturation point
Flexible
fines for speeding planned
A
hump too far ... traffic is contained, but not the growing annoyance of
car users
Rail
travellers see improvements arrive slowly
Number
is up for today's road user [letters]
Independent *
Tube
and rail workers to vote on joint strike
Minor
speeding penalties to be cut
Telegraph
Faster
offenders targeted
Bonuses
for [Network Rail] directors
The
five who stand to benefit
Wrong
kind of bonuses [leader]
Times
Private
motorway puts up tolls as jams loom
Speeding
penalties to be reformed
Inverness
has 1m aircraft passengers in its sights
Rail
chaos looms as RMT prepares to strike
Oil
prices have not put the economy over a barrel
Fuel
disruption [letter]
Sunday 16th May, 2004
BBC
Flexible speed
penalties proposed
Ministers
on fuel protest alert
Guardian
Plan
looms to concrete 1,000 miles of Britain
BA
cost review reaps £800m saving
New
British Rail urged to conquer chaos on the trains and cut costs
Independent *
Drivers
to get flexible speeding penalties
BA's
£1bn fuel bill threatens to put cost-cutting into a tailspin
Channel
Tunnel link at risk of going off the rails
Telegraph
Fury
over rail bonuses
Times
Speeding
drivers could get six points
This
is the night mail...trains return to get post back on track
London
faces slow death in the high seas
BA
defies airline gloom with £200m extra cuts
Motorway
madness [Ireland]
Saturday 15th May, 2004
Guardian
British
Airways cuts summer holiday fares to beat low-cost rivals
Brown
backs away from fuel tax rise
Corporates
warm to climate change
Independent *
BA
cuts European fares as it fights back against rivals
Telegraph
BA
steps up price war
Rail
crime up 20pc
Times
Haulage
firms demand reduction in fuel duty
Petrol
cheaper than 4 years ago
Petrol
prices in real terms [graphic]
Road
safety [letter]
Gas-guzzlers
rule [letter]
Airwise News
EU
Talks Tough On US 'Open Skies' Deal
Friday 14th May, 2004
BBC
Rail reform
'will be challenging'
Police 'face
speed camera flak'
Upmarket
'buses' to tackle jams
Financial Times *
Watchdog
urges rail chiefs to focus on value for money
Guardian
Parking
wardens want body armour
Protests
loom over rising petrol prices
Air
pressures give Virgin Atlantic a bumpy ride
Alarm
over set of near misses by military jets
Independent *
Emergency
summit called as petrol hits record price
Short-term
bonuses could tempt rail chiefs to fix results, warns NAO
Oil
surge sends petrol to £1 a litre
Profit
halves at Virgin Atlantic but Branson still plans growth
Telegraph
Railway
report: it's the wrong type of train
Times
Armed
Forces on standby to beat fuel tax protesters
Speed
cameras make us hated, say police
NAO
attacks cuts to Network Rail efficiency targets
London Evening Standard
Airport
passenger numbers up 15%
Airwise News
Airport
Operator BAA's Traffic Improves
Irish
Budget Airline Goes Bust After A Week
Thursday 13th May, 2004
BBC
Near
misses spark air safety call
Child car seat
'risk to lives'
Can we
shock drivers into safety?
Derailment
points 'known danger' [Tube]
Guardian
Cross-Pennine
upgrade tops list of plans to enhance north's railways
FirstGroup's
tram-like bus will suit you, sir
Union
calls for speed cuts on tube
Independent *
Network
Rail chiefs to get 20% bonus
Troubled
rail contractor Jarvis mulls emergency fund raising
Telegraph
Don't
like buses? It's a tram
Times
Pension
and rail bid costs drag down earnings at FirstGroup
Is
it a bus? Is it a tram? Is it profitable?
London Evening Standard
City
workers top walking table
Wednesday 10th May, 2004
BBC
Tube
train derails near station
Tube
line open after derailment
BA fares
rise with oil price
Oil price
rises hit airline fares
AM campaigns
on fuel price rises
Bikes banned
on peak-time trains [Wessex]
First
Group profits edge higher
Financial Times *
BT
defends 'free flights' promotion
Tube
company faces derailment inquiry
Guardian
Derailed
tube train raises safety fears
Airlines
pass on fuel cost to passengers
Independent *
BA
customers face air fuel surcharge as oil prices rise
Firm
faces inquiry after Tube derailment
CAA
unveils fresh airport charge plan
Telegraph
BA
introduces £5 oil surcharge
Fourth
Tube derails
Times
BA
adds £5 levy on tickets to cover oil rise
Livingstone
aids forgetful drivers
Error
led to Tube derailment
Regulator
proposes lighter touch in setting BAA fees
Tuesday 11th May, 2004
BBC
Ryanair
boss says prices to drop
Oil cost
forces Qantas surcharge
How to
build your own airline
Financial Times *
Rail
authority 'insulated' from passenger woes
Independent *
Too
old to be wild? [motorcycles]
Times
Women
drivers safer – except when parking
Driving
offences [graphic]
EasyJet
acts on Paris slots
Time
for the climate doomsters to face reality [comment - Lomborg]
Fuel
prices [letter]
Airwise News
EU
Says US Air Treaties At Risk
No
Fuel Surcharges At Ryanair
EasyJet
Contests French Airport Slot Allocations
Lufthansa
April Traffic, Cargo Rise
Air
France-KLM Says Airports Key To Success
Yorkshire Post
Drivers
'to face road charges'
Monday 10th May, 2004
Sunday 9th May, 2004
BBC
Biker
deaths frustrate officers [Hants]
Parking
U-turn could end ticket madness
Independent on Sunday *
Government
review 'endangers' £20bn cash for railways
EU's
Open Skies olive branch to US
Observer
Cash
crisis stalls rail upgrade
Webster
ponders the 'Branson solution'
Does
no frills mean no profits?
Summer
heat will cause deadly ozone
Sunday Telegraph
Delay
hits [Crossrail] scheme
New
bus lane cameras
FirstGroup's
chief engineer
Sunday Times
Oil
price could reach $50 in next few weeks, say experts
Railway
bond plan could be derailed
European
dogfight for budget airlines
Airport
boss sent to Coventry
Time
to open the books on ScotRail, Jack
Full-frills
fledgling comes crashing to the ground
JetGreen
sells flights without airport slots
Easyjet
calls for FSA share probe
Cut-price
cat to take on Channel ferry 'cartel'
Saturday 8th May, 2004
BBC
Price
of oil breaches $40 barrier
Petrol
prices reach 80p a litre
First
supersize Airbus assembled
Firms battle
for East Coast line
Financial Times *
Sacked
Tube driver wins dismissal case
Tourist
arrivals at best level for 25 years
Guardian
Grey
skies over green pleasant land [SE housing]
Bigger,
greener and with room for a sauna - the A380
More
petrol price rises on way
Eurotunnel
faces demise, says ex-boss
Foreign
firms in east coast line tussle
Squash-playing
tube driver wins case
Roads
to nowhere [leader]
Independent *
Brown
is ready to drop petrol tax rise
Larger
than a 747, Europe's 'Big Bird' is unveiled
Ray
Webster: The low-cost guru who is battling to survive the fares war
Telegraph
Dissent
at 80p gallon
Alarm
as oil hits 13-year high
Better
fill your tank
C1
rider's helmet ruling
5mph
driver 'almost stopped'
Partial
victory for sacked Tube man
Uninsured
drivers now cost £500m a year
Driven
mad by the boy racers
'Outflanked
by Miguet' [Eurotunnel]
P&O
ferries buffeted
Car
dealers forecast bumper year
Times
Emergency
fuel levy to lift air fares
Grandma
pays penalty for life in slow lane
Court
threat over Skye Bridge tolls
Former
chairman says creditors will take Eurotunnel
Deutsche
Bahn shortlisted for East Coast rail franchise
Airwise News
Ryanair
Traffic And Loads Improve
British
Airways Sees Traffic Recovery
Friday 7th May, 2004
BBC
Concern
over new traffic figures
Criticised
bus firm 'improving' [Manchester]
New court
bid over bridge tolls [Skye]
Unions
agree on Alitalia reforms
RMT threatens
strike travel chaos
Oil soars
despite overproduction
Turbulent
day for BA share price
A wheel
clamper, and proud
Financial Times *
Alitalia
jobs deal staves off collapse
France
and Italy agree €12.5bn alpine rail tunnel
Guardian
Livingstone
rail plan gets Blair's blessing
O'Leary
thanks Ryanair staff with 3% pay rise
Prime
minister rattled by surging oil price
Fuel
worries could turn into Blair's despair
Blair
under fire for CO2 retreat
Independent *
Government
under fire after cutting emission targets
Telegraph
SRA
is 'too big for its boots'
Hewitt
cuts carbon limits
Ryanair
staff get 3pc pay rise
Times
Tube
workers call for four-day week
Scope
of railway review ‘inflated’
KLM’s
first profit in three years after cost cuts
Passengers
back on the move for BA
Alitalia
bosses to go in new rescue plan
Why
easyJet's fate had me skipping on the gangplank [comment]
Thursday 6th May, 2004
BBC
Quiet
celebrations for Eurotunnel
Tough
outlook hits Easyjet shares
Rail firm's
'one' confusing name
Financial Times *
Charge
takes its toll on the M6 truckers
Guardian
EasyJet
shares nosedive
Rail
chief attacked over £1,500 fee paid to Norris
Independent *
EasyJet
nosedives as fares war takes toll on profits
Consumers
set to gain from budget airlines' tough times
Rail
chief's £1,500 briefing is just more profligacy, critics say
Oil
prices hit new highs as Gulf tensions rise
Telegraph
Cheap
fares in danger
Easyjet
shares dive amid fears of low-fare wars
Times
One's
train is about to leave from Platform 5
BAA
faces Virgin and bmi lawsuit over fees
Transport
taxes bring out the beast in Howard
Wednesday 5th May, 2004
BBC
Collapsed
airline axes 260 jobs
Pig
farmer wants airport response [Finningley]
Air France
seals takeover of KLM
Bankruptcy
warning for Alitalia
Financial Times *
Budget
airlines challenge new EU regulations
Independent *
Rail
safety shake-up 'puts lives at risk'
Telegraph
Pump
prices hit new high
Times
Bicycle
safety [letter]
Tuesday 4th May, 2004
BBC
Sharp
rise in global air traffic
Ministers to
curb rail 'insanity'
Speed
camera call for fatal road [Norfolk]
Financial Times *
Transport
minister promises overhaul of Britain's railways
Guardian
Howells
calls for speed cuts to save lives
Driven
down [leader - company cars]
Telegraph
200,000
homes to be built
GNER
in £25m Hatfield wrangle
Times
The
thirsty £1½m car that needs only water
Fuel
cell technology [graphic]
Greener
rival to overtake hybrids
Global
warming action [letter - aviation]
Monday 3rd May, 2004
Financial Times *
Minister
promises overhaul of railways
Telegraph
The
science behind climate change forecasts adds up to a lot of hot air
[comment]
Times
Regional
trains that run empty should go to hell, says rail chief
Hundreds
stranded as airline goes bust
London Evening Standard
Bikes
used by just one in 10
Sunday 2nd May, 2004
BBC
Welcome back,
bicycle bell
Blunder grounds
Easyjet flights
Airline
goes into administration [Duo]
Sabbath
ferry service sets sail [Raasay]
Bike
camera scheme first [Wales]
Independent on Sunday *
Eurostar
in the dark over Eurotunnel
Budget
flyers left stranded by airlines
Britain
has world's worst rate of asthma
Network
Rail threatens union over strike
Black
cabs go green as London prepares to hail 'electric' taxis
Observer
Police
join the assault on speed cameras
Younger
flyers also run the risk of blood clots
Howells
needs hand-brake turn
Sunday Telegraph
Drivers
let off penalties
Mass
homebuilding scheme
Something
has to be done [SRA]
Sunday Times
Ken’s
secret £75m road charge deals
Two
Jags goes electric
Road
noise rebels win EU hearing
Passengers
stranded as airline goes bust
Non’
to new Eurotunnel loan
Saturday 1st May, 2004
BBC
Controversial
road plan approved [SW A303/A30]
Guardian
Bus
miracle [letter]
Telegraph
1.5m
caught by cameras
Drought
fear pushes up oil price
Times
Speed
camera fines increase, but dangerous drivers escape
Friday 30th April, 2004
BBC
Traffic
police chief did 104mph
Financial Times *
Railway
companies accused of market abuse
Times
Cast-offs
outdo costly new trains
Thursday 29th April, 2004
BBC
Tilting
train makes debut journey
Financial Times *
UK
cities face gridlock without transport reform
Terms
of FirstGroup rail bid may vary
Guardian
O'Leary
sets date for global domination
Getting
back on buses [letters]
Independent *
Low-cost
rivalry takes off as bmibaby arrives at Gatwick
Telegraph
Bid
for Scotrail 'still on track'
SRA
franchise attacked as 'flawed'
Times
Rail
chief hits at bank 'windfalls'
Fares
blow as First is cleared to bid for ScotRail
Airwise News
Berlin
And Budapest Add To EasyJet Expansion
Wednesday 28th April, 2004
BBC
Billions
cut from [WC] Mainline costs
Date
set for airport court battle [Coventry]
Airport's
four million passengers [Bristol]
Firms
agree Potters Bar liability
Financial Times *
Big
cities require £70bn to improve transport
Guardian
Rail
chiefs claim £2.4bn saved on tilting train line
New
front opened in fight against climate change
Independent *
Two
years on, Jarvis accepts liability for Potters Bar crash
Cities
need £70bn to improve inadequate transport system
Opec
studying plan to boost oil price band by a third
Blair
opens new front in fight against greenhouse gases
Telegraph
Rail
firms share liability
Treasury
blamed for jam
BT
broadband goes rural
Times
Potters
Bar crash firm offers cash to victims
Edinburgh
road toll inquiry under way
Tuesday 27th April, 2004
BBC
Bus use
falls in most UK cities
UK group
to push climate process
Tunnel
bulging 'effect of light' [SW]
Lift-off
for Boeing's Dreamliner
Financial Times *
HSE
set to lose rail safety role
Terminal
failure enhances Mersey port plan
Guardian
Britain
catches on to the bus
Ferry
harnesses Severn for crossing
Hughes
pledges to pedestrianise Oxford Street
Dream
ticket for Boeing as Japan orders 50 7E7 jets
Independent *
Government
set to miss greenhouse gas targets
We're
MAD as hell...[speed cameras]
Brum
Brum: a car with your mortgage
Telegraph
Atlantic
£60 fares hope
Slam-door
train deadline is put back by a year
The
sky's the limit for Boeing
Times
Ministers
raise target for cuts in gas emissions by 20%
Monday 26th April, 2004
BBC
Civilian
patrols police motorways
Train service
row goes to Commons [NE]
Calls
to control low-cost flights
Guardian
Middle
Britain [leader - suburbs]
Independent *
Suburban
gardens should be cut to halt explosion in traffic , study says
Times
Germanwings
'will kick out' easyJet
London Evening Standard
'Tube
in a terrible state' - driver
Sunday 25th April, 2004
BBC
Setback
for cycle helmet law bid
Independent on Sunday *
City
threatens Darling on plan to shorten Crossrail
SRA
reforms won't get out of the station, says railway regulator
BA
threatens 750 jobs in wake of union rejection of pension deal
Observer
Oil
giants join climate group
Drivers
warned over hay fever pills
Central
pushes French freight link
Sunday Times
Richard
Bowker: How I would transform Britain's railways
ScotRail
franchise in thrall to the fat controller
Competition
concern over First bus and rail routes in Scotland
Saturday 24th April, 2004
BBC
[EM]
Airport moves to improve security
What to
use when the oil runs out
Telegraph
Rail
regulator attacks blueprint
Friday 23rd April, 2004
BBC
Trams 'fail
to attract passengers'
Eurotunnel's
finance chief quits
Financial Times *
Airlines
reject US calls for passenger details
Guardian
Tram
systems 'too costly and underused'
MoD
to close four RAF bases
Station
parking is ticket to elite club
Eurotunnel
loses finance chief
EU
says Sicily link is not a bridge too far
Independent *
BAA
outlines £8bn investment plan
Light
rail is too costly and unpopular, say auditors
Flooding
may cost Britain £27bn a year, scientists say
'Millions
more' at risk of global warming floods, UK warned
Eurotunnel
in turmoil as finance chief Burge quits
Telegraph
Traffic
is speeding up
Tram
systems 'costing millions'
Floods
bill could hit £21 billion
Eurotunnel
finance chief quits
Times
BAA
increases its passenger forecast by 2.5m
Alarm
as Eurotunnel finance chief resigns
Britain
must prepare for coming of the great floods
Thursday 22nd April, 2004
BBC
No more
commuting
Airlines
contest passenger rights
Retailer's
fear on congestion fee [Edinburgh]
Drunk
car driver endangered train
Ford profits
double as sales soar
Speed
warning for loch ferries
Financial Times *
Plan
for stakes to offset £10bn Crossrail bill
Guardian
It's
too late. Climate change floods are inevitable - no matter what we do
Global
warming floods threaten 4m Britons
MEPs
reject airline data deal
Independent *
Congestion
charge hits sales - John Lewis
Euro
MPs mount legal challenge to US air travel deal
Telegraph
Tories
call for speed camera crash data
£300m
congestion charge
P&O
plans Antwerp terminal
Times
Airlines
fight plan for delays payout
London Evening Standard
Heathrow
construction workers needed
Wednesday 21st April, 2004
BBC
Campaigners
win super-port fight
Road improvements
essential - RAC
Tube
firm fined £11m
Stansted
could host more flights
The world's
overflowing oil reserves?
Financial Times *
Minister
rules against £600m port plan
ABP
hit as UK refuses port development
Edinburgh
railway station to expand
Guardian
New
port rejected to save birds
Eurotunnel
car traffic declines
Check-in
times to US may hit five hours
Rail
vandal put lives at risk
First-class
fare [train food]
Independent *
Russia
may be ready to ratify Kyoto treaty on climate change
AB
Ports rocked by Southampton block
O'Leary
says one low-cost carrier will fail this year
Eurotunnel
sales fall as car traffic stalls
Telegraph
[Air]
Fares to fall by 20pc
AB
sinks as terminal scuppered
Boeing
stakes all
Times
Fears
for new ports after ABP is blocked
Setback
alarms investors
Eurotunnel
hit by 4% sales fall
Metronet
fined £11m over Tube
Ryanair
chief's swipe at Gdansk angers Poland
Airwise News
Ryanair
CEO Sees No Ceasefire In Fares War
Tuesday 20th April, 2004
BBC
'Super-port'
plan inquiry opens [Essex]
Women
drivers face higher bills
Financial Times *
Rail
authority urges shake-up to simplify network
Guardian
Wrong
type of pressure halts new trains
Rail
body wants to reform itself out of existence
Bowker
raises white flag
Stagecoach
founders share £65m windfall
Telegraph
Train
companies rattled
Stagecoach
hands back £250m to shareholders
Times
'Super
rail agency' plan to save £5bn attacked
Stagecoach
to return £250m to shareholders
Monday 19th April, 2004
Financial Times *
Canary
Wharf tube makes late entrance
Independent *
Rail
union leader vows to cause 'maximum disruption'
Bob
Crow: 'I believe in peaceful civil disobedience'
Government
cuts funding for environmental issues
Telegraph
Signal
for rail shake-up
Sunday 18th April, 2004
Independent *
Pollution
plan cut for being too successful
London
rail plan 'unworkable'
Observer
SNCF
in daring move to seize control of Eurotunnel
Sunday Times
Airports
to be renamed after famous Scots
Tube
operator gets £4m bonus — and £4.9m fine
Saturday 17th April, 2004
BBC
Job
fears over ferry cut rumours [Hull]
Guardian
Battle
over superport scheme for mudflats [Dibden Bay]
Fur
flies in catfight over airline name ]Ryan]
Times
Will
this be the end of the line for one of the greatest railway journeys in
the world? [N Ireland]
Friday 16th April, 2004
BBC
Cameras
'to replace humps' [London]
[US] Airlines
complain over fuel costs
Telegraph
Britain
may face ice age
Times
Search
for Channel crossing solutions [letters]
Thursday 15th April, 2004
BBC
Train ballot
threatens key routes [Virgin]
Financial Times *
Ford's
new model shows road ahead
Guardian
London
goes into reverse on speed humps
'Every
time a lorry goes over it's like a bomb'
Putin
adviser calls Kyoto protocol a 'death treaty'
Call
time on our cheap flight hypocrisy [comment]
Independent *
Kyoto
treaty is an Auschwitz for Russia, says Putin's adviser
Anger
at £2.5bn plan to widen motorways
Miles
and miles of money [traffic wardens]
Eurotunnel
board seeks state support
Edinburgh
group leads bids for TransBus
Telegraph
Car
seats up to 11
Britons
flock to the sun
Times
Link
cuts journey times to the border [Scotland - A1]
London Evening Standard
Four-lane
M25 in £3.5bn roads plan
Wednesday 14th April, 2004
BBC
Blair 'adrift'
on the environment
Road improvement
plan 'scrapped' [Wales - A40]
Drivers warned
against loud music
Airport
to be named 'Robin Hood' [Finningley]
Ryanair
revives Charleroi service
Creditor
fears batter Eurotunnel
Strike ballot
for railway workers
Financial Times *
Rail
workers threaten national strike
Flights
on target for Robin Hood airport
Cheap
holidays draw millions abroad but Britain shows its class for the discerning
Livingstone
speed hump row escalates
Postal
chiefs in talks over return of mail trains
Guardian
Nottingham
not so merry about Robin Hood airport
Motorists:
less Motorhead, more Mantovani!
Subsiding
track could sink city's magnetic levitation train [Shanghai]
Rail
mail may be reprieved
Ryanair
to keep hub at Charleroi
Growing
strains [leader]
Independent *
Kiley
is offered £1m to turn round Tube
BAA
reports gradual recovery from slump in passenger numbers
New
fees deal with Charleroi airport gives Ryanair shares a lift
Telegraph
BAA
checks in record number
Rail
workers strike vote
Charleroi
deal closed as Ryanair blasts Brussels
O'Leary
circles over Brussels
Mail
train could soon be back
Times
Record
traffic for BAA as aviation recovers
Pension
ballot could shut down railways
Norris
will sack transport chief if elected mayor
Livingstone
gets the hump over Barnet
Ryanair
agrees new Belgian airport deal
Eurostar
checkpoint in Brussels
Blasts
of Wagner can drive you off the road
Nice
and easy does it on long, winding roads
London Evening Standard
Commuters
face more delays
Mayor
withholds transport grant
Tuesday 13th April, 2004
BBC
Increase
in BAA passengers
Blair 'adrift'
on the environment
Airbus
wins $1.2bn China order
Guardian
New
pact could save Ryanair's Charleroi service
Rights
to the roads [letters]
Independent *
Blair
'adrift' on environment, warns leading green adviser
The
Green Audit
Telegraph
Planes
and cars boom can't go on, says Blair's green team
Ryanair
sidesteps ruling
Times
Cross-Channel
tunnel timings
[letter]
Monday 12th April, 2004
BBC
Rail delays
affect Easter travel
St
Pancras closure is end of era
Guardian
Eurotunnel
bosses are urged not to quit
Independent *
Virgin
train services taken over by state with £1bn subsidy
Telegraph
Vive
la revolution! Vive la digging! [Eurotunnel]
Times
Wrong
kind of rain blamed for increasing number of car crashes
Sunday 11th April, 2004
BBC
Heathrow ready
for superjumbo
Independent on Sunday *
New
link between asthma and diesel fumes shows the campaign must go on
Eurotunnel
coup threatens EWS
Observer
M-way
limit may rise to 80mph to smooth traffic flow
EU
ruling on slot sales may boost airline balance sheets
Why
slot sales are key to airlines' take-off
Eurotunnel's
entente discordante
Sunday Telegraph
Banks
eye Eurotunnel
Sunday Times
New
agreement keeps Ryanair flying from Charleroi airport
Ryanair’s
O’Leary pushes staff to accept pay freeze
O’Leary
warns Ryanair pilots of pay freeze
Eurotunnel
rescue deal ‘was only weeks away’
Project
Galaxie: The cunning plan to deal with debt
Saturday 10th April, 2004
BBC
Proposals
for new Tyne crossing
Eurotunnel
names new bosses
Chopper
scours tracks for vandals
Cliff
railway gears up for summer
Financial Times *
Defra
to retreat on carbon reduction
Guardian
Walkers
battle with 4x4s over rights of way
Holiday
opens with end of an era at St Pancras
Heat
rises in Boeing v Airbus battle
Independent *
A
famous railway name disappears as St Pancras is shunted into history
Activists
force vote over BP's Arctic ambitions
Telegraph
Last
train from St Pancras
Friday 9th April, 2004
BBC
Easter train
disruption warning
Strike on UK
railways to go ahead
Eurotunnel
names new bosses
'Clever'
car to solve congestion
Guardian
Tunnel
board alarms lenders
Independent *
Easyjet
prepared to sue in France row
Eurotunnel's
banks seek urgent talks with new management
Telegraph
Eurotunnel
'rag-tag'
Times
Rail
fare rises 'abuse monopoly'
New
Eurotunnel board surprises with a hint of rescue rights issue
Thursday 8th April, 2004
BBC
School
transport 'is in crisis'
Eurotunnel
rebels secure victory
New routes
lift Easyjet numbers
Greenland's
ice cap under threat
Financial Times *
Coastal
areas at risk, says report
Traffic
protests bring Austrian motorways to halt
Guardian
The
mini-car that runs on natural gas
Global
warming may melt Greenland's ice, scientists warn
Rebels
sack Eurotunnel board
Black
hole blues [leader - Eurotunnel]
Independent *
Greenland
ice melt 'could put London under water in 50 yrs'
Eurotunnel
banks may seize control
Fraudster
who ousted Eurotunnel's board
One
last throw of the dice for angry French investors
Rail
unions threaten to halt trains in pay row
Telegraph
Rail
unions threaten strike
Easter
abroad for Britons
Guillotine
falls on Eurotunnel board
Times
Rise
in motorcyclists drives up road deaths
UK
fatal road accidents [graphic]
Tories
U-turn on speed camera points
No-hands
offender among Scotland's 'crazy' speeders
Catastrophe
alert over melting ice from Greenland
Eurotunnel
meeting confirms rebel victory
Lights
and Eurotunnel [leader]
The
drive to vilify our motorists [comment]
Wednesday 7th April, 2004
BBC
Tax disc fines
hailed 'a success'
Crunch
time for Eurotunnel board
Guardian
Drink
driver went 16 miles on wrong side of motorway
French
group seizes control of Eurotunnel
Deep
in debt
Independent *
Terror
gas attack on Tube foiled by security agencies
Telegraph
Crackdown
on 'killer' cyclists [Japan]
Times
No-frills
airlines boost TBI passenger traffic by 13%
Qantas
to launch discount carrier based in Singapore
Country
lane access [letter]
Tuesday 6th April, 2004
BBC
Paddington
crash firm fined £2m
Rail fine 'must
go to survivors'
Call
for illegal driver crackdown
Air France
opens offer to buy KLM
Financial Times *
Thames
Trains receives record fine over crash
Guardian
Paddington
rail crash firm fined record £2m
Virgin
chief to slow down as trains speed up
Unions
call for inquiry into crisis at Mayflower
Rail
pension hedge fund plan raises alarm at union
Thomsonfly
faces high court battle to stay in the air
Independent *
Thames
Trains fined record £2m for Paddington crash
Ryanair
ends Brest route and tells customers to take a hike
Carnival
targets UK in £500m cruise ship plan
£3.6m
saves 'Flying Scotsman' for the nation
Telegraph
Record
fine for crash
Survivors'
ordeal by fire
Carnival
swells UK cruise fleet
Times
Thames
Trains fined £2m over Paddington crash
Passenger
figures take off for BA and Ryanair
Cheap
flights are the future [Spain]
Air
taxis beat Moscow's traffic
London Evening Standard
Protest
at congestion charge [extension] plan
Rail
idea ministers should back [Central Railway]
Birmingham Post
Councils
at odds over airport [Coventry]
Monday 5th April, 2004
BBC
Group slams
speed camera 'policy'
Financial Times *
Terminal
3 prepares for superjumbo's arrival
Guardian
Safety
fears raised by black cab price hike
Trams
leave family begging for sleep [Manchester]
We
don't need all that oil
Independent *
Private
companies managing the Tube 'must step up pace'
Bob
Kiley: 'We're still with the sherpas on the lower parts of the mountain'
Times
Rail
delays get even worse
Tories
to catch uninsured drivers with a letter of the law
Drawbacks
of rail renationalisation [letters]
Second
homes are set to double
Sunday 4th April, 2004
BBC
Disabled
'to sue for Tube access'
UK
pollution plan 'put on hold'
Observer
One
million British cars crawl out of hiding
Thames
Gateway aims for 90,0000 new homes
Saturday 3rd April, 2004
BBC
Passenger
boom for Eurostar
Guardian
Go-faster
Eurostar celebrates its best weekend to date
Putting
rail back on track [letters]
Independent *
Richard
Shirrefs, chief of Eurotunnel: An Entente that is not very Cordiale
Times
Clouds
loom over open skies discussions
Friday 2nd April, 2004
BBC
Drastic rail
reform call from MPs
Rail regulator
slams report
Tube
staff unprepared for attack?
Financial Times *
MPs
call for radical shake-up in rail sector
Guardian
MPs
want rail revolution to tackle 'scandalous' service
MPs
seek Mayflower inquiry
Network
derailed [leader]
Independent *
Rail
network out of control, say MPs
Telegraph
Railways
'out of control'
Badgers
'need SAS training' [to cross road]
Times
Commons
committee calls for single railway agency
Rail
networks offer bargains to early travellers
Mayflower
job fear as potential buyer goes
Jet
of the future? [letter]
Thursday 1st April, 2004
BBC
Motorists
face poor driving fines [London]
Call
for expanded rail service [N Ireland]
Opec to
go ahead with output cuts
US airlines
scrap fuel surcharge
Guardian
Public
misled over cost of £10bn rail line [WCML]
The
£10bn rail crash - part 1
The
£10bn rail crash - part 2
Mayflower
[bus
builder] calls
in the administrators
Independent *
Opec
output cut raises prospect of $40 crude
Mayflower
bows to the inevitable
Telegraph
Roads
facing axe to meet rail bill
Camera
policy attacked
David
Ross takes wheel [National Express]
Times
Do
you drive a Porsche 911? Smile please, you're probably on camera
Rights
of way on lanes in the country [letters]
Wednesday 31st March, 2004
BBC
Budget
airline takes off into row [Coventry airport]
Scientist
renews climate attack
Rail to get
£14m a day to improve
Rail commuter's
champ: My road hell
US petrol
prices hit record highs
Financial Times *
Air
traffic charges reviewed
EU
to require passenger data from airlines
Guardian
Britain
forces through demand to retain EU airline passenger data
Network
Rail to 'name and shame'
BMI
chief scorns Virgin's advance
Generators
warn of power shortages from CO2 targets
Tunnel
investors have a long, dark road ahead
Independent *
Network
Rail likely to retain control of tracks
bmi
threatens legal action over charges
CAA
dismisses Nats as costing too much
Telegraph
£17bn
on late trains
BMI
blasts fees as losses halve
Times
Railway
delays to be measured in seconds
Bmi
halves loss but says aviation is still fragile
Airline
threatens BAA legal action
Burning
buses letter]
Tuesday 30th March, 2004
BBC
Motorbike safety
film launched
Go-ahead
for £9m village bypass [A167]
Financial Times *
Maritime
industry fights to get shipshape to keep rivals at bay
Independent *
Passengers
yearn for the return of British Rail
All
change at FirstGroup as bus operator announces boardroom shake-up
Telegraph
Gloom
over state of railway
Times
Transport
troubles [letters]
Monday 29th March, 2004
BBC
Rail's London
focus under attack [Wales]
Claim pay-outs
hit road repairs
Opec mulls
wisdom of output cut
Independent *
Network
Rail set to unveil £40bn plan
bmi
halves losses and rules out airline merger with Virgin
Telegraph
Road
cash goes on claims
Times
Tackling
inefficiency in the railways [letters]
London Evening Standard
Dangerous
hole in London road budget
'Thousands
not given say on C-charge plan'
New
Tube safety alert
Sunday 28th March, 2004
BBC
Heathrow shake-up
for BA flights
Independent on Sunday *
Global
warming spirals upwards
No
frills, no car park, no terminal - it's no joke [Coventry airport]
Observer
Greenhouse
effect heats up battle of the skies
Oil
giants have us over a barrel
Merger
of trains and track shelved
Cruise
ships must clean up their act
Faulty
roads cost £100m in payouts
Sunday Telegraph
Dash
to launch airlines
Long
flights raise stroke risk
Network
Rail wants trains
Opec's
taps running
Sunday Times
Germany’s
Tui in cheap flight row
[Coventry airport]
‘Smart’
traffic lights can ease motorway jams
BMI
cost cutting halves airline’s losses to £9m
Saturday 27th March, 2004
BBC
No-frills
flight report withdrawn
BA tells
staff to stop skiving
Guardian
'No-frills
decline' in fact a rise
Jarvis
cleared of rail fraud
Clean,
safe and speedy ... so why has the Busway worsened traffic jams?
[Jakarta]
Independent *
Is
this the end of the road for the speed bump?
Friday 26th March, 2004
BBC
Drop in
low-cost domestic flights
Flights
fall claim 'is nonsense'
Backing
for £385m Thames bridge
China
learns to travel in style
Financial Times *
Increase
in carbon emissions is just a blip, says minister
EU
warned over solo greenhouse gases curb
Strong
recovery leaves Alpha Airports optimistic
BA
chief in new drive on sick leave
Guardian
Rise
in CO2 is 'blip' says minister
No-frill
air services 'waning'
Name
change cannot shield Jarvis [letters]
Independent *
Government
slams door on £8bn freight railway line
Carphone
millionaire Ross takes the wheel at National Express
Times
BA
chief writes to staff about 'dreadful' level of absenteeism
Country
lanes [letter]
London Evening Standard
Huge
tube works programme unveiled
Thursday 25th March, 2004
BBC
Bus services
'need improvement'
Cycle
helmet ban faces opposition
Maiden
voyage for super-ferry [Plymouth]
Talks over
aviation job cuts [S Wales]
Airport
expansion creates 96 jobs [Exeter]
Jarvis
wins Potters Bar rail work
US petrol
prices at all-time high
Big China
oilfield 'running low'
Financial Times *
BAA
stays firm on Stansted expansion
Guardian
Fires
force London's 'bendies' off the road
Barge
to free up roads
Independent *
Blair's
drive to cut global warming hit as CO2 emissions rise
Jarvis
wins contracts for Potters Bar work
King
of the roadside [service stations]
Rise
of 'the centaurs' as Italians take to their scooters with passion
Telegraph
Jarvis
wins contract
Buses
withdrawn after fires
Times
Protest
as Jarvis gets rail contracts
The
car way in front of green fuel race is Toyota
London Evening Standard
Pledge
to improve commuter trains
Wednesday 24th March, 2004
BBC
Travel
revival means more Virgin jobs
Mayor's
bid to take over trains
[London]
Buses withdrawn after fires
Easyjet
announces Belfast routes
Act
over 'intolerable' buses [Manchester]
Financial Times *
UK
train operators bid for more control
Network
Rail probes Eurostar signal alert
Guardian
Train
operators want to control tracks
Market
towns in a state of siege
Confident
Virgin introduces new Caribbean routes
Independent *
Virgin
to create 1,400 jobs with new routes to Bahamas and Cuba
'Bendy
buses' taken off London streets in fire probe
Rail
chiefs lambasted over Livingstone plans
Telegraph
Rail
boss wants reintegration
Clapham
Junction for rail conferences [comment]
Times
Train
company to take charge of its own tracks
Heartless
planners blamed for killing the soul of England's market towns
Branson
plans to double size of Virgin Atlantic
New
Labour's war against the countryside [comment]
Country
lanes [letter]
London Evening Standard
Pledge
to improve commuter trains
Eurostar
trains in near miss
Tuesday 23rd March, 2004
BBC
Oil boom
sparks fuel price surge
Financial Times *
UK
train operators bid for more control
Out-of-town
shops policy shift denied
Guardian
Planning
change 'threatens high streets'
Mystery
fires strike Livingstone's new bendy bus fleet
Independent *
Darling
summit to expose infighting over rail network
Telegraph
Cameras
catch four drivers per minute
Times
Delay
may doom £1bn London rail link
Proposed
East London line [graphic]
Monday 22nd March, 2004
Telegraph
Brown
lifts [OOT] store ban
Times
Motorists'
champion rips out humps and bus lanes
Jaded
commuters share a common dream
London Evening Standard
London's
air a concern for Lib Dems [Nox]
Sunday 21st March, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Homes
plan 'will lead to car chaos'
Barn
owl at risk of extinction in UK as roads take huge toll
Observer
Gridlock
fears as car costs fall
Rail
chiefs miss £1m bonus
Green
belt fears over plans for two million new houses
Sunday Times
Darling
calls in KPMG to fix the railways
Airlines
reject safety net plan for DIY tourists
Saturday 20th March, 2004
BBC
Flight
protection levy considered
Indian
private airline heads abroad
Guardian
Network
Rail pays millions to sacked firms
Independent *
BA
seeks to hold down pay and pensions
Telegraph
'Carry
on working' bonus [rail]
Livingstone
seeks to run trains
Conductor
Ken is taking us for a ride [buses]
Times
Rail
contractors 'are paid twice' for work
Efficiency
and safety of rail stations [letters]
Friday 19th March, 2004
BBC
Rail
crash charges 'less likely' [Potters Bar]
Massive
job losses at air company
Guardian
Ministers
'colluding on Potters Bar'
Rail
passengers face Easter delays
Transport
[public service test]
Livingstone
argues Crossrail case
Put
Crossrail on track [letter]
The
price of more housing [letters]
Times
Jarvis
prosecution unlikely over Potters Bar train crash
Bombings
force Tube to put mobile phones on hold
Stricken
aviation firm lays off 80% of staff
Thursday 18th March, 2004
BBC
Extra police
for railway stations
Delays
hit lorry charges scheme
Bombardier
to cut 1,250 UK jobs
Financial Times *
Road-user
charge for heavy trucks delayed two years
UK
'urgently needs' 120,000 new homes a year
Guardian
Six-month
freeze on petrol duty delights car organisations
Road
levy for lorries delayed until 2008
Cash-starved
transport police berate minister
1,362
jobs go in train plant closures
Blast
from the past: Acme Thunderer helps make the trains run on time
Independent *
Motorists
given an easy ride, lobby group complains
Case
Study: Company car driver
Livingstone
may run London rail network
Alstom
chief to take over at air traffic controller
Speed
cameras drive Cox to record year
Telegraph
1.4m
new homes needed
Bombardier
cuts 1,362 UK jobs
Times
Air
traffic control chief ousted by board
Train
factory spared as Bombardier cuts 1,300 UK jobs
White
van man runs out of luck
Motoring
groups welcome easy ride for drivers
Expansion
plan 'spells disaster'
The
housing crisis is a castle built on sand [comment]
Wednesday 17th March, 2004
BBC
Speeding
'loophole' case rejected
Guardian
The
cheap way to fly from Edinburgh to Nottingham - via Jersey
Hopes
rise that Britain's last train-making plant will survive
Superjumbo
hits turbulence before it gets off the ground
Branson
fight for Europe grounded in Belgium
Airport
and pension costs pull down Menzies profits
Trains
taken for a ride [letters]
Independent *
Bombardier
to cut 1,000 UK jobs to keep Derby rail factory working
Virgin
Express creates Brussels airline
Arriva
moves to avoid referral on Welsh railway deal
Airbus
calls for more aerospace spending
Telegraph
Wardens
get clamped
Woman
finds role in male world of rail
EC
to jack up motor insurance
Times
Last
train factory to secure a reprieve
Welsh
port deadlock could hold up Airbus
Virgin
Express to merge with Belgian rival
Tuesday 16th March, 2004
BBC
Calls
for more taxes on aviation
Delta
warning hits airline shares
What could
trains learn from planes?
Financial Times *
Aviation
growth 'to hit green targets'
New
road proves 'magical' for north Wales
Guardian
MPs
rail at airport expansion
Deadly
strain of TB spread by air travel
Independent *
Aviation
growth 'will wreck emission target'
Rail
police cut despite raised security fears
Mass
air travel brings TB threat to Britain
Telegraph
Tube
trepidation
Survey
results has SRA steaming
Monday 15th March, 2004
BBC
Air
plans 'will hit green policy'
'Train marshals'
to patrol Tube
Fines due in
motor tax clampdown
Guardian
Passengers
voice new fears about train travel
When
the best isn't good enough [Anglia railways]
Telegraph
Untaxed
car number drops
Times
100,000
drivers get £80 fines in the post today
Network
Rail bid to take on stations [letter]
London Evening Standard
Work
starts on [Stansted] airport hotel
Sunday 14th March, 2004
BBC
Speed
camera vans 'more visible' [NE]
Proposed
improvements on track [ECML]
Independent on Sunday *
City
threatens Darling on plan to shorten Crossrail
Saturday 13th March, 2004
BBC
EU tackles
US over airlines aid
Financial Times *
Network
Rail sees big demand for bond issue
Crackdown
on car tax pays off
Tax
may strike owners of homes abroad
Guardian
Jarvis
seeks Tube stake sale
Independent *
UK
rail network 'could be soft target for attack'
Telegraph
Eurostar
throws out revamp of structure
We're
not cashing in, says Jarvis
Times
No-frills
deal has impact on bmi
Reuniting
train and track is best way to keep the railways running
Friday 12th March, 2004
BBC
Toll rates 'too high
for lorries' [M6]
Financial Times *
Tubelines
to gain £30m from refinance terms
Independent *
BA
shares tumble after Madrid attacks and warning of cost rises
Telegraph
Demand
in China fuels oil price
Times
Passengers
ready for a second battle of Waterloo
Eurostar
seeks Euro-friendly title for St Pancras
Public-run
trains more punctual
Thursday 11th March, 2004
BBC
Rail watchdog
agrees £22bn spend
Cash injection
may not be enough
Financial Times *
UK
regulator confirms rail funding plan
Proposal
to merge train and track operations attacked
Tube
chiefs claim track improvements
Guardian
Winsor
takes powers from rail authority
Balfour
tracks £100m deal
Independent *
Cross-subsidy
for Stansted vetoed
Rail
deal curbs Bowker's powers
Telegraph
BAA
may fight for cross-subsidies
Winsor
plan to avert £7bn rail shortfall
'Network
Rail cost us £40m'
M25
stress spots found
Times
New
Stansted runway ‘may need subsidy’ from sister BAA airports
Rail
stations head back to public control
Voters
still not sure that trains will run on time
Carillion
takes £33m hit from cancellation of rail maintenance work
Railways
recoupled [leader]
London Evening Standard
Architects
'to be appointed for Stansted' [development of Stansted]
Wednesday 10th March, 2004
BBC
Scandinavia's
airline faces split
Guardian
Nottingham
turns out to hail return of trams
Independent *
EU
clouds 'open skies' deal after rejecting US proposal
Telegraph
Winsor
puts the squeeze on SRA
Quarrier's
tax rise warning
Bright
idea for safety [road safety]
Tuesday 9th March, 2004
BBC
Toyota
helps Ford with green car
Independent *
Eurotunnel
slates rebel plans as 'wild and dangerous'
Investors
eject chief executive of Planestation
Telegraph
Mobile
phone crackdown
Times
School
bus shake-up 'will put more cars on the roads'
London Evening Standard
£13m
plan to end car dumping
Union
wants support for rail campaign
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
Grinding
to a halt [Bingley Relief Road]
Monday 8th March, 2004
BBC
Means-test
for school bus passes
Motorists 'flouting
mobile ban'
Rail costs are
'out of control'
Northern
Line returns to normal
Work
begins on 'red route' road [Birmingham]
Fourth
day of Metro strike [Newcastle]
Profits
climb at Airbus builder
Guardian
Campaigners
challenge airports plan
Charting
M25 stress points
Independent *
Scientist
'gagged' by No 10 after warning of global warming threat
How
chief scientist attracted heat from No 10
Telegraph
Airlines
benefit from 'safest year'
Times
Parking
bay that puts the squeeze on motorists
Sunday 7th March, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Taxpayers
'ripped off' as rail spending soars
Treasury
backs slimline Crossrail
Watchdog
to blast Network Rail for wasting millions in public funds
Observer
Transport
crisis 'will cripple economy'
Eurotunnel
chief warns board may lose to rebels
Sunday Telegraph
Winsor
and SRA on collision course
Eurotunnel
steps up fight
Sunday Times
Stagecoach
rides into Connex line furore
Rebels
will sink us, Eurotunnel warns
Aer
Lingus eyeing up expansion in Far East
Rail
freight looks for new partners
£13m
parking fines row heads for court
Saturday 6th March, 2004
BBC
Easyjet
passenger numbers growing
Independent *
Commuters
brace to overhear: 'Hello? Yes, I'm on the Tube'
Times
Airports
growth to face court challenge
EasyJet
maintains load factor as passenger numbers rise 17%
Friday 5th March, 2004
BBC
Worker
suspended over jets alert
Financial Times *
Livingstone
likely to review TfL funding
Guardian
P&O
plans further ferry staff cuts
Independent *
Arriva
to drive deeper into mainland Europe
P&O
ferry overhaul after £40m loss
Telegraph
Speed
cameras to stay
Summer
is heating up
Arriva
ready for London bus boom
A
tale of three cities [Eurostar]
Times
Speed
cameras secretly sited away from blackspots
Arriva
confident of market share as more Londoners take the bus
P&O
launches review as ferries sail into the red
Thursday 4th March, 2004
Financial Times *
Move
to widen rail competition [Europe]
Guardian
Rail
relief promised in Midlands
France
on alert over rail bombs
Telegraph
SRA's
train seats pledge
Times
Free
buses planned for poorer pupils
Doubt
over Virgin Rail stake hits Stagecoach
Wednesday 3rd March, 2004
Financial Times *
Airline
passenger checks 'permanent'
Brussels
set to make rail companies pay for cross-border delays
Guardian
Two
held over rail runaway deaths
Darling
rejects US open skies plan
Highways
Agency helps squirrels find path to love
Independent *
US
officials may check travellers at UK airports
Telegraph
Rail
rethink carries £9bn ticket
[French]
Trains 'hostage to unions'
Times
Road
U-turn as rejected plans resurface under new names
Tuesday 2nd March, 2004
Financial Times *
Brussels
set to make rail companies pay for cross-border delays
Times
Enraged
driver towed away camera
Blunder
in congestion charging exposed
'Smart'
car can keep elderly drivers on track
Speed
cameras' proper purpose [letters]
Monday 1st March, 2004
Guardian
All
planes - freight and passenger - should pay green tax, say Lib Dems
Opposition
to station closure
Telegraph
Cost
of motoring
Sunday 29th February, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Darling
planning extra £2bn for Network Rail
EUjet
plans to fly 29 routes from Kent hub
Observer
Device
that won't let drinkers drive
Beware
mature men wobbling on big motorbikes
Sunday Telegraph
Will
VAT on jet fuel fly?
Threat
to Sir Richard
Payment
makes car the star
Sunday Times
Fifty-year
bonds to fund railways
Saturday 28th February, 2004
Financial Times *
Rail
funding deal aims to avert crisis
Telegraph
Winsor
to rule on rail fees deal
Times
Honda
motors ahead in fuel-cell technology
Friday 27th February, 2004
BBC
Danger driving
jail terms raised
'Phenomenal'
speeder jailed
Ryanair
to axe Charleroi-London
Petrol
fears spark oil price rise
Financial Times *
Local
communities to get more control of rural lines under rail authority proposals
Guardian
Devolution
plan for rural rail lines
Go-ahead
for £150m extension to Docklands Light Railway
Ryanair
blames EC as it scraps Charleroi route
National
Express moves in on London's local buses
Capita
scents congestion payoff in foreign fields
Independent *
Call
to take signalling away from Network Rail
Telegraph
Local
control for rural rail
Capita
profits from congestion
National
Express buys 200 buses
Network
Rail seeks £10 billion
Times
Drivers
will be able to see if speed cameras save lives
Police
chief backs blackspot machines
Rail
volunteers could keep local trains on track
London Evening Standard
Police
to review speed cameras
Thursday 26th February, 2004
BBC
Howard
to become 'driver's mate'
Rural rail users
may run trains
Tube
Lines misses delay targets
Inquiry
into runaway rail trolley
Big loss
for Lufthansa
Guardian
UK
seeks ideas on recycling tyre mountain
Independent *
Inflight
entertainment? Watch villagers below
Times
Police
denounce Tory leader over speed camera politics
Dangerous
cars [letter]
Wednesday 25th February, 2004
BBC
Bad
air quality fuels 'Tube rage'
Ferry
firm confirms job losses
Guardian
Tube
chief blames past for failure to deliver today
Telegraph
[Child]
Seat errors cost 30 lives
Tuesday 24th February, 2004
BBC
End
of the road for speed cameras [London[
'Go-slow' taxi
protests planned
Flexible
future for bus services
Budget
airlines turn to telecoms
Poor transport
'costs UK £15bn'
Ford to
open second China plant
Financial Times *
Darling
opens first control room to reunite track and train
Guardian
London
defies national trend by cutting speed cameras
We
need more roads, say business leaders
Telegraph
Frowning
on speed
Rail
spending shunted
Times
Trains
run by three fat controllers
London Evening Standard
London
could lose 140 speed cameras
Monday 23rd February, 2004
Financial Times *
Network
Rail to launch bond issue
Independent *
Network
Rail moves closer to agreement on £10bn debt restructuring
Telegraph
Network
Rail in £10bn cash call
Times
Subsidies
for rail help well-off and hurt poor, says report
London's
congestion [letter - Norris]
Sunday 22nd February, 2004
BBC
Police chief's
speed camera fears
Jobs boost
as Virgin ups flights
BBC
stumps up for tree stunt [J Clarkson]
Independent on Sunday *
Supersizeport
'will destroy wildlife' [Dibden Bay]
Observer
Now
the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
Key
findings of the Pentagon
Drivers
face hundreds more speed cameras
Sunday Times
Solo
commuters to pay higher Forth bridge toll
Network
Rail poised for £10bn fundraising deal
Virgin
lines up east coast
Ryanair
threat to close down Buzz
Soaring
cost of touching down [Heathrow]
Saturday 21st February, 2004
BBC
Runaway wagon
brakes 'broken'
London
drives Go-Ahead earnings
Unions
condemn three-hour commute
Financial Times *
Move
to restore rail line to local control
Ministry
official faces questions over Eurotunnel
US
offers to ease curbs on airline ownership
Autobahn
deaths boost speed limit call
Guardian
Death
crash rail wagon had faulty brakes
Ghost
train haunts bid to update railways [SWT]
London
drives Go-Ahead profit up 43%
Independent *
Seaplanes
and airships could help solve Edinburgh's traffic problem
London
drives Go-Ahead profits 43% higher
LCR
in 'contracts for Eurotunnel aid' bid
Telegraph
Brakes
failed on trailer
Go-Ahead
lifted by charge effect
Times
Rail
chiefs head east for clues to perfection
UK
and Japan rail services [graphic]
London
congestion charge gives Go-Ahead a boost in passengers
Plans
for a tunnel at Stonehenge [letters]
A
means to reverse our speed culture [letter]
Friday 20th February, 2004
BBC
Transport
cost tops family budget
Heathrow
third runway threat
Budget
airline unveils expansion [Scotland]
Rival bus
firms battle over fares [London-Brighton]
Alitalia
board 'ready to resign'
Financial Times *
LCR's
Crossrail success linked to Eurotunnel
Cars
pass food in family budget
Guardian
Transport
soars to twice food spend
Telegraph
Rail
crash firm adopts new name
Times
Landscape
blight of lorry toll towers
Warning
on dumped cars
Railmen
tried to stop crash
Thursday 19th February, 2004
BBC
Germany
hit by road toll fiasco
Judge
wants 'rogue cars' tackled
Guardian
New
doubt cast on Heathrow expansion
1
a seat for Stagecoach's Ryanair of the road service
AB
Ports warns on UK capacity
Independent *
Rail
authority seeks spin doctor to boost image for £480,000
Times
Intercity
bus service to offer 'no frills' trips for £1
London
to Birmingham [graphic]
Heathrow
drivers may pay over the odds to go underground
TUI
in airport takeover
London Evening Standard
Taxi
drivers 'putting lives at risk'
Wednesday 18th February, 2004
BBC
Congestion
charging 'a success'
Ferry services
under threat [Wales-Ireland]
BA moves
400 call centre jobs
Financial Times *
London
mayor hails congestion charge success
Guardian
Congestion:
they clone, he crushes
Claim
that wooden chocks were used on railway trolley which killed four
Independent *
Mayor
to consider twofold extension of congestion charge
Telegraph
Car
charge cuts delays
Stonehenge
tunnel plea
Times
London
to make congestion payment easier
400
jobs are lost as BA closes call centres
Battle
opens over buried Stonehenge road
Stonehenge
highway proposal [graphic[
Runaway
wagon 'secured by wood'
London Evening Standard
Congestion
charge 'surprisingly good'
Tuesday 17th February, 2004
BBC
Inquiry
into Stonehenge road plan
Mayor
to assess congestion toll
M1
repairs start on 77 bridges
UK centre
of global asthma crisis
Financial Times *
EU
commissioner under attack on Kyoto
Guardian
Police
focus on brakes in runaway wagon deaths
Britain
tops asthma league
Independent *
Safety
fears were raised before runaway train crash
Fight
begins over Stonehenge tunnel scheme
Airline
pilots angry over 'needless' cancellations
Britain
has world's highest rate of children with asthma
Telegraph
Union
demands inquiry [Tebay]
1
in 3 teens asthmatic
[Congestion]
Charge fails to stop traffic
Times
Transport
and defence in the firing line under Tory plans
Be
bold Ken, and charge motorists ten quid [comment]
Monday 16th February, 2004
BBC
Mayor's
investment plans revealed
Speed
trap safety role hailed [SW]
Traffic
charge 'hits retailers'
Financial Times *
Congestion
charge 'hurting retailers'
E-tailing
comes of age as women spend more than men
Guardian
Call
for public inquiry as runaway wagon kills four rail workers
Eurotunnel
turns to rail link group for cash
Ryanair
plans zero frills and fares
London
companies learn to love congestion charge
Independent *
Four
die as runaway wagon ploughs into rail workers
Livingstone
aims to double charging zone
Edinburgh
may be next to impose city centre toll
Telegraph
Charge
'not working'
BA
cutbacks could cost more jobs
Times
Mayor
'made it tricky to pay £5 toll'
Rail
staff killed by '20 tonnes of runaway death'
London Evening Standard
Congestion
zone 'could double'
Sunday 15th February, 2004
BBC
Ryanair
'to cut frills further'
Drivers
put-off by London parking
Independent on Sunday *
Free
train tickets drive Belgians off clogged roads
Bechtel
in Eurotunnel rescue bid
Observer
Pollution:
now cars set to be cleaner than rail
Sunday Telegraph
'I'm
not trying to blackmail governments' [Eurotunnel]
Sunday Times
Ryanair
gets stripped down for take-off
EU
airport ruling threat to Inverness
Eddington
flies BA Europe back into black
Tunnelling
through the debt [Eurotunnel]
Saturday 14th February, 2004
BBC
Easyjet
strengthens German ties
Financial Times *
Congestion
charge zone 'is harming businesses'
Company
car tax blunder hits 1m owners
Industry
says record sales of trucks reflects robust growth
EasyJet
to open second German base
Guardian
[Congestion]
Charge has helped break love affair with car
Eurotunnel
wins French freight battle
Lost
for words in traffic nightmare [Iran]
Telegraph
Eurotunnel
may take Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Friday 13th February, 2004
BBC
Motorists 'admit
driving tired'
Financial Times *
Brussels
urged to reject US aviation offer
Guardian
Budget
airlines start Gatwick battle
Network
Rail shunned by City
Telegraph
Tees
ports lined up for £500m sale
Times
Buses
are picking up passengers of a different stripe. A pinstripe
Harsh
words and elbow-wrestling on the No 88
French
railways ready to back Eurotunnel's plan to cut debt
Thursday 12th February, 2004
Financial Times *
Air
France, KLM merger wins approval
Guardian
Rail
firms fined for boy's death
Non-polluting,
all-seeing cars on the way
KLM-Air
France merger cleared
Little
light at the end of the Eurotunnel
Independent *
Rail
'too cautious' on safety, says Darling
Brussels
blesses KLM/Air France merger
Telegraph
Rail
is 'a job for government'
Times
BAA
cheers airlines with 4.8% traveller increase
EU
gives green light to Air France-KLM merger
Not
in your backyard? Think again, Mr Prescott has plans to build all over
it [comment - SCP]
London Evening Standard
Failure
of rail link plea 'to cost millions'
60
people to change train timetable
Wednesday 11th February, 2004
Telegraph
Rail
review may wind up SRA
London Evening Standard
33,000
homes a year for city
Tuesday 10th February, 2004
BBC
Tories
want 80 mph M-way limit
British
Airways profits surge
Rail booking
firms set to merge
Eurotunnel's
money troubles
Financial Times *
Eurotunnel
seeks to restructure finances
BA
flies in at top end of expectations
Guardian
Eurotunnel
begs for rescue plan
Tunnel
to purgatory
Jubilant
BA climbs to 12-year profit high
Qjump
rail ticket outfit hits buffers
Hopping
aboard the London Routemaster debate [letters]
Letters
extra: Routemaster
Independent *
Eurotunnel
calls for government support after record £1.3bn loss
British
Airways readies for short haul profits take-off
Telegraph
Moves
for 80mph M-ways
Eurotunnel
£1.3bn in red
BA
remains cautious
Trainline
joins Qjump
Times
Eurotunnel
seeks £2bn debt cut in latest rescue
Drive
to cut costs reaps BA record rewards
State
aid and transport competition [letter - ferries]
Monday 9th February, 2004
BBC
Eurotunnel
racks up big losses
Financial Times *
Carmakers
to query pollution demands
Guardian
Call
for 200mph railways
Independent *
Revenue
fall will put pressure on Eurostar
Shelved
high-speed rail link 'essential', Darling is told
Telegraph
Eurotunnel
to head off cash crunch
Traffic
ban in Italy
Times
Tunnel
operator counters cash crisis
Emissions
plan 'could cripple car industry'
Fine
prospect of change in climate [letter]
London Evening Standard
BA
profits soar to £125m
Stansted
passenger levels rise
Sunday 8th February, 2004
BBC
High-speed
lines 'would shrink Britain'
Rail union
breaks with Labour
China
hopes for private airlines
Independent on Sunday *
Blair
orders hike in SRA train targets
Channel
rail ruling could close Thameslink for a year
Flying
Scotsman may be sold abroad
Observer
Eurotunnel
faces fresh cash crunch
Ryanair
to cut routes if it loses Charleroi battle
O'Leary's
protests are just so much hot air
Rail
overcrowding sparks safety probe
Sunday Telegraph
Motorised
resistance [speed cameras]
Gitten's
great freight gamble [Central Railways]
Ryanair
neither saint nor sinner [comment]
Sunday Times
Global
warming is real terror war says top adviser
Congestion
charge cuts traffic by third
High-speed
lines ‘vital to railways’
Eurotunnel
in talks to head off cash crisis
Ryanair
flies clear of Armageddon as Brussels spouts spin
Ryanair
pilots to fight O'Leary ban on unions
Saturday 7th February, 2004
BBC
UK 'may
need to scrap road taxes'
Easyjet's
passenger levels climb
Charleroi
wins new airline deals
Why millions
are terrified of flying
Jail
threat to 116mph driver
Apology
over plane post delay
Financial Times *
Visitors
from the Continent offset US fall
Germany
in truck-tolling talks with Autostrade
Guardian
Bus
backlash as mayor rings the changes
Accessibility
good, London heritage bad [Routemasters]
Running
out of road just as elections loom [Rover]
Prescott's
pet [letter - M11 corridor]
Independent *
Passenger
numbers fly 12% higher at easyJet
Telegraph
Prescott
homes blunder
Proof
of global warming or just hot air? [local weather]
Times
Drivers
wage war against the hated yellow boxes
Vandals
show off destruction on the internet
Teenager
drove at 76mph over the limit
Rise
in passenger numbers lets easyJet cock a snook at Ryanair
Freak
winter weather blows hot and cold
Friday 6th February, 2004
BBC
[Road]
Bottleneck report published [Devon]
Speed
camera blown up [Bristol]
Financial Times *
Truck
charging scheme set to start in 2007
EU
ruling a step in the right direction [letter - Ryanair]
Guardian
500,000
new homes for M11 region
Anger
over hit and run sentence
Watchdog
blocks Stena [Dublin route]
Clipped
wings? [Ryanair]
Telegraph
P&O
sale plan runs aground
Thursday 5th February, 2004
BBC
Call to
seize uninsured vehicles
Financial Times *
Ryanair
attacked for lowest fare claim
Travel
delays cost managers dear
US
concerns dim EU hopes for 'open skies'
Guardian
Get
cover or lose your car, says ABI
Unions
protest as rail inquiry jobs head off to India
Unions
taking wrong line over rail inquiries
Ryanair
discovers the high cost of low cost
Ground
these subsidies [letter]
Driving
on [letter - ABD]
Independent *
Terror
fears hit BA passenger numbers
Half
of rail inquiry calls go to India in £100m deal
Times
Dynamite
used to blow up speed camera
The
train time? You're better off asking India, rail inquiries chief says
BA
recovery stalls after warning on bookings
Appeals
to curb roadside furniture [letters]
Wednesday 4th February, 2004
BBC
Watchdog criticises
train upgrade
Will
rail review improve services?
UK ports
'getting near capacity'
Lords
dismiss [Barnstaple] bypass appeal
Ryanair
slates Charleroi ruling
Ryanair
advert dubbed 'offensive'
How to
save on your car insurance
Financial Times *
Ryanair
chief blasts Brussels subsidy ruling
Ryanair's
rivals welcome Brussels decision
Workers
fear a reversal of fortune in revived Charleroi
Polish
roadbuilding programme stalls
Guardian
Ryanair
claims EC ruling will hit budget travel, but rivals doubt it
Taxpayers'
millions wasted on new trains
Lone
drive to work on the rise
Ryanair
chief fights back
Independent *
Rail
chiefs are blamed for series of errors over unreliable new trains
O'Leary
vows to defy 'evil empire' over Charleroi ruling
Rail
chiefs are blamed for series of errors over unreliable new trains
Telegraph
Fares
will rise by 33pc, says Ryanair
Turbulence
for no-frills flying
Ryanair
attacks 'numbnuts' ruling
Another
example of cut-price thinking
'Blunders'
plague trains
Times
£4bn
shambles of unreliable new trains
Budget
fares to increase after subsidy blow
Low
fares tempt Britons to buy abroad
Winged
in flight [leader]
Tuesday 3rd February, 2004
BBC
Ryanair
set for aid court battle
BAA passenger
numbers to take off
Maruti
sees car sales rise by 30% [India]
Guardian
PPP
not to blame for derailment
They
call themselves the voice of the driver. But who do they really represent?
[ABD]
No
10 ponders tolls to drive in fast lane ...
In-house
rail repair 'has cut delays'
BAA
profits rise despite security worries
P&O
casts off container unit
Independent *
Ruling
on Ryanair threatens spread of budget air travel
Telegraph
Ryanair
[shares sale] inquiry
Busy
Heathrow lifts BAA
Times
Extra
2% rate on firms to help fund Crossrail
Support
grows for Ryanair's airport subsidies
Airports'
profits rise as passengers increase
Monday 2nd February, 2004
BBC
Ryanair
vows fight over subsidies
Ryanair
to appeal over wheelchair
Financial Times *
Livingstone
gambles on Crossrail funding
Guardian
Warning
to travellers: expect more cancellations
Ryanair
fights back over airport subsidies
Ryanair's
unfair charge [letters]
Independent *
Rail
chief's future in doubt as his role in review of network is opened to 'job
share'
Telegraph
Ryanair
warns of soaring fares
Sunday 1st February, 2004
Independent on Sunday *
Ryanair
ready to take on EC over state aid
Ford
halts pollution label plan for cars
O'Leary
on a wing and a prayer after bad week
Observer
Eddington:
BA will bounce back in 2004
BA's
Rod is reborn as big wheel in City
Terror
plot cancels BA flights
Sunday Telegraph
Ryanair
threatens to sue
O'Leary
has his wings clipped
Crossrail
gets green light
Sunday Times
Ryanair
set to record first loss
US
offers Europe 'open skies' deal
Ryanair
success stalls as first quarterly loss looms
Ryanair
thrust into reverse but the pilot is still in control
Aer
Lingus float threat
Congestion
tolls 'would cut Dublin jams by 20 per cent'
Saturday 31st January, 2004
BBC
National
Express in new train deal
Ryanair
loses disability ruling
Financial Times *
Ryanair
loses battle on wheelchair charges
National
Express wins Greater Anglia franchise
CBI
throws weight behind £10bn rail link
Guardian
Tube
partners in row over snow chaos
Ryanair
must compensate wheelchair user
Safety
alert over rail job cuts
Independent *
National
Express to earn £140m from Anglia franchise
Michael
O'Leary: Ireland's oligarch flying by the seat of his pants at Ryanair
Blair
sends in 'hit squad' to improve failing railways
Airline
defeated over wheelchair charge
Telegraph
Ryanair
adds 50p levy
Belgians
commute for free
£15m
expected in rail profits
Times
Disabled
flier proves wheelchair is no frill
Cat’s
eyes will wink to warn motorists
BA
and BAA in compensation talks after snow disrupts Heathrow flights
National
Express scoops Liverpool Street deal
Friday 30th January, 2004
BBC
BA wants
compensation over snow
Guardian
Any
airport in a storm [comment]
Independent *
Train
operators vie for east coast route
Big
freeze brings chaos to Britain's roads and railways
Telegraph
West
Coast rail chief quits
Snow
causes travel chaos
Times
'Single
sky' plan will unify Europe's airspace
A
scattering of snow and Britain grinds to a halt
BA
calls for £1m after grit failure
Hopes
grow for go-ahead on capital's £10bn Crossrail line
Yorkshire Post
New
setback for [Leeds] supertram plan
Rivals
ready to compete for chance to run services on East Coast rail route
Thursday 29th January, 2004
BBC
Delays ahead
for frozen commuters
Ryanair
price-cutting hits profit
Guardian
Arctic
blast seizes up transport
BA
faces battle with unions over new round of job cuts
Ryanair
ruling threatens cheap air fares
Independent *
Profit
warning wipes £1bn off budget airline Ryanair
Rail
and road travel is disrupted by arctic blast
BA
unions vow to oppose cuts in pay and pensions
Telegraph
BA
to cut 5,000 jobs
Ryanair
shares plunge on surprise profits warning
Even
high flyers can run out of hot air [comment]
Times
Commuters
left out in the cold as midwinter bites
On
a wing and a prayer: Ryanair’s hard landing
High-flyers
that changed the way we live
Ryanair
flies close to the wire [comment]
London Evening Standard
4,000
face axe as BA cuts costs by £30m
Wednesday 28th January, 2004
BBC
Review
of train leasing urged
Financial Times *
Brussels
to ban Ryanair from receiving aid
Guardian
Mayor
in speed camera row
Ryanair
to repay sweeteners
Independent *
BA
unveils plan to curb spiralling wage bill
Ryanair
facing fine 'running into millions' over Charleroi state aid
Times
Council
cameras target bad drivers
Grants
to buy green cars go into the red
Tuesday 27th January, 2004
BBC
BA prepares
3,000 more job cuts
Rail
link tunnel breaks through
Rail union
set for Labour warning
New
budget airline for Britain
Guardian
Research
centre to tackle air pollution
Speed
cameras review to focus on life-saving
Highway
army ready to fight the big freeze
Virgin's
new [air] service faces delay
Telegraph
Speed
trap? You're covered
Times
Speed
ban 'insurance' condemned
MPs
put brakes on 20p-a-mile rebate for cyclists
Monday 26th January, 2004
BBC
Scrap tax disc,
say most drivers
[Chunnel]
Rail link work inquiry starts
Inquiry
into train 'separation' [GNER]
Financial Times *
Drivers
critical of vehicle tax system
Airline
braces for Brussels ruling
Guardian
Livingstone
hails Brown u-turn on tube funding
Job
fears at BA
Independent *
Government
may allow Livingstone to issue bonds for transport projects
Telegraph
BA
to slash 4,000 jobs
Public
transport 'is poor'
Times
Bond
plan to improve London transport
British
Airways to announce £300m cost savings
Threat
to life from global warming [letter]
Punishment
from speeding points [letters]
Airliner
safety [letter]
London Evening Standard
Mayor
may sell Tube bonds
C-charge
brings car use down
Sunday 25th January, 2004
BBC
Rival
opposes airport terminal plan [W Midlands]
Independent on Sunday *
4,000
jobs to go as BA slashes costs
Global
warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades'
Ex-Buzz
boss plans new no-frills flights to challenge UK rail
Sunday Telegraph
Fly
to avoid sky high fares
New
low-cost airline for UK
Sunday Times
Tory
plan to let full cars use bus lanes
Rail
chiefs fear power struggle after shake-up
Rail
meddling 'like a virus'
Short
hop airline launches
Saturday 24th January, 2004
Guardian
Rail
safety blunder 'risked disaster'
Flying
in the face of the facts
Independent *
Rail
firm's blunder meant signals were disconnected
Times
Councils
taking too long to hear drivers' appeals
Boeing
sees no airline recovery ‘for two years’
Friday 23rd January, 2004
BBC
No
10 denies speeding laws review
Independent *
Rail
firm's blunder meant signals were disconnected
Telegraph
Trains
six years late
Times
Drivers
to get speed camera points reprieve
Delayed
flights decrease
Sending
drivers to jail [letter]
London Evening Standard
'Hands
off congestion charging'
[Tube]
Ticket problems denied
Thursday 22nd January, 2004
BBC
Assault
fear halts camera plan
Guardian
Trains
now only 327 weeks late
[not available yet]
Independent *
TBI
shares crash after Hochtief walks away [airports]
Telegraph
Back
off, says rail regulator
TBI
bid halted
Times
Fatal
crash bus firm can keep its licence
Looming
port crisis could add to cost of UK imports
Capita
to be axed by Norris
Climate
change: speed is the key [letter]
Wednessday 21st January, 2004
BBC
Minister:
Mistakes made over rail
Family
cars 'depreciate quickest'
Net
users cut congestion
What's
in a name [EMA]
Financial Times *
Civic
pride in a flap over airport's title
Guardian
Storm
over airport's new name
Two
railway firms to cut services
BA
outbid for Heathrow slots
Live
in France, work in Britain and help out Eurotunnel
Independent *
Howells
admits rail crisis failure
Eurotunnel
digs for more revenues to avert meltdown
Telegraph
Nottingham
airport, Leics
Air
crash tally falls
Times
Track
and train must be remarried, Darling [comment]
Future
of the railways [letter]
London Evening Standard
Livingstone:
Make me a fat controller
France
Rail Strike To Hit Eurostar Services
Tuesday 20th January, 2004
BBC
Rail industry
faces huge overhaul
Will
rail review improve services? [voxpop]
New air software
after near miss
Financial Times *
Railway
industry backs safety regulation change
The
rail review is not a minute too soon
Ten-year
plan 'hit by changes of ministers'
Future
of rail institutions set to be up for debate
UK
rail uncertainty continues as review looms
Show
of support sees SRA chief co-ordinate responses
Air
France and KLM set for fast clearance
Crossed
lines [leader]
Tories
out of focus on speed cameras [letter]
Guardian
Strife
in the fast lane as new road takes its toll
[Air]
Control centre gets new system
Minister
orders 'streamlining' study of railways
Spot
the villain in the railways blame game
Yet
more upheaval [leader]
Independent *
Darling
announces radical review of rail system to prevent 'further suffering'
for passengers
Jams
on M6 toll - but not on the M6
Telegraph
Rail
reliability 'is key'
Darling
review 'won't undermine rail regulator'
Forget
the old timetable, this late train is Labour's fault
Speed
rebel freed
Times
Track
and trains stay separate in railways overhaul
Adviser
fears ministers are tinkering in the sidings
How
the railways are regulated [graphic]
Air
traffic control glitch puts 500 travellers at risk
Toll
road gridlocked as M6 runs freely
Commentary:
Railways need City support
Privatisation
gave us safer, faster and better trains [comment]
Votes
on the line [leader]
Congestion
charge [letter]
Monday 19th January, 2004
BBC
Rail industry
poised for overhaul
Q&A: Rail
reform announcement
Petty
criminals 'overrun jails' [motoring offences]
Financial Times *
UK
rail uncertainty continues as review looms
New
attempt to tackle flaws of privatisation
Rail
body's row with regulator has frustrated government
Ten-year
plan 'hit by changes of ministers'
Future
of rail institutions set to be up for debate
Punctuality
study must move with the times
Carbon
emissions ruling has industry fuming
Guardian
Jails
overrun by motorists, prisons chief warns
Rail
regulator faces shakeup
Independent *
Prescott's
ten-year plan for integrated transport is 'dead'
Too
many drivers are in jail, says prison boss
Telegraph
Rail
review ordered
Driving
offences soar
Axed
bypass inquiry
Times
Too
many motorists are jailed, prisons chief says
Reunite
rail industry, watchdog says
Sunday 18th January, 2004
BBC
Rail chief denies
plans to resign
Rail
tunnel closes for repairs [Kent]
Tram
drivers on strike [Manchester]
Independent on Sunday *
Darling
set to announce big rail shake-up
Observer
Rail
chief attacks 'dirty tricks'
Obese
told: It's up to you
Drivers
want road test for cyclists
Roadside
drug tests put on ice
Sunday Telegraph
Darling
plans overhaul
Bowker's
enemies
Sunday Times
Regional
train czars to cut rail red tape
Traffic
cop with a mission bags 329 speeding drivers in one day
A
derailed railway [leader]
BA
prepares to axe jobs in £300m cost-cutting campaign
Heathrow
deal adds value to Aer Lingus
Saturday 17th January, 2004
BBC
M62
tailbacks after crash
Jobs blow
for Stansted workers
Financial Times *
Ministers
want more control over UK railways
EU
warns US of strong opposition to sky marshals
Guardian
Dismay
at punctuality wheeze
Driver
took 100 tests for learners
C02
cuts will raise prices, says industry
The
beastly bourgeoisie [letters - speed limits]
Flying
train plan comes off the rails
Independent *
Railway
chief on brink of early departure over 'bloody' reforms
European
airlines win concessions on sky marshals
Bus
driver made £50,000 taking tests for learners
Telegraph
Darling
orders railway shake[-up]
Rail
industry still not getting there - very quickly [comment]
Times
Ministers
seek more control of railways
US
fails to convince Europe over need for sky marshals
Union
to fight maintenance staff cuts at Stansted
Blunkett's
proposals for speed levy [letters]
Friday 16th January, 2004
BBC
Network Rail
wants later arrivals
Independent *
Increased
air pollution during heatwave killed 800 but ministers say clean air targets
were hit
Telegraph
Journey
times lengthened
Pollution
deaths soar
Times
Airbus
delivers more aircraft than Boeing for the first time
London Evening Standard
Congestion
charge fine could rise
Stranded
commuters walk on live tracks
Power
failure disrupted rush-hour
Thursday 15th January, 2004
BBC
Minister
meets MPs over [Leeds] Supertram
Financial Times *
Congestion
charge operator criticised
Car
wholesaling to launch on web
Transport
sector sees competition referral as blow to integration
Guardian
Charity
cyclists barred from new trains
Mayor
shifts away from bigger congestion charge zone
Autobahns
not paying their way
Independent *
High-speed
rail link between London and Scotland postponed indefinitely
Surface
problems cause speed restrictions on toll motorway
Telegraph
[Rail]
Funding crisis continues
Russia's
road rage
French
are 'safe drivers'
Times
Penalty
for congestion charge non-payers will rise to £100
Road
works put brake on M6 Toll after just 36 days
New
device lets your car call 999
London Evening Standard
Green
buses go into service
Wednesday 14th January, 2004
BBC
Speeding
levy 'not definite'
Garages
fail to spot MOT faults?
Financial Times *
A
wrong turn for the Conservatives [comment - speed cameras]
Guardian
Rail
network faces £2bn cash crisis
Blair
hints at u-turn on speed fines
FirstGroup
in rail franchise hitch
The
fast ... and the furious [cameras]
The
roadhog right cannot deny it: speed cameras work
Independent *
Britain's
chaotic railways: the report the Government tried to suppress
OFT
derails FirstGroup's franchise bid in Scotland
New York Times
To
Avoid Fuel Limits, Subaru Is Turning a Sedan Into a Truck
Telegraph
FirstGroup
bid in balance
Times
BA
blames delays on 'needless' security checks
First
Group bid faces competition hurdle
Franchise
processs could be delayed
Low-cost
airlines give BAA busy year
Tuesday 13th January, 2004
BBC
Victim levy
plan provokes outrage
Drivers ignore
drug driving risks
Train
firm replaces 'new' fleet [SW Trains]
Road improvements
'need £20bn'
Eurostar
'upbeat' about 2004
Financial Times *
[Rail]
Spending accelerating since crash
Guardian
RAC
wants £20bn for roads
Eurostar
fares better
Independent *
Tories
accuse Blunkett of new 'stealth tax' over £5 extra fine for minor
road offences
Passengers
can be guilty, too
Eurostar
boasts soaring traffic figures despite shaky 2003
Telegraph
Speeding
costs rise
Assault
on motorists [leader[
Rail
link speeds Eurostar
Times
Outrage
over £5 'tax' on speeding fines
RAC
calls for £20bn roads plan to prevent gridlock
RAC
recommendations for future roadbuilding [graphic]
Overcrowded
station to lock out passengers
Police
'marshals' go on the buses after rise in attacks
Faster
track gives Eurostar passenger record
The
cost of crime [leader]
Monday 12th January, 2004
BBC
Bill 'may increase
parking rows'
More
caught drink driving [E Midlands]
Financial Times *
Rail
chief accuses critics of launching 'cowardly attacks'
Rise
in tourists and Tube use marks capital's economic upturn
Industry
to bear costs of recycling old cars
Guardian
Residents
fight to block 24-hour work on Channel link
Freak
summers 'will happen regularly'
Independent *
GNER
boss call's Virgin trains 'cheap and nasty'
Times
Car
that drives on water sails to success
London Evening Standard
Airline
boosts [Brussels] flight frequency
Sunday 11th January, 2004
BBC
Wildlife
warning over ports plans
Courts
to clamp debtors' cars
Independent on Sunday *
Darling
deal points way to rail renationalisation
Blair
presses Bush to act on global warming
One
in 20 drive after taking illegal drugs
Observer
Traffic
police cuts linked to road deaths
Giant
space shield plan to save planet
Running
scared on the same old track [comment]
Sunday Telegraph
Greed
cameras
Sunday Times
Jarvis
wins new Potters Bar work
Armed
police on traffic patrols
Brennan
urges swift decision on Aer Lingus
Runway
lands developer in more trouble [Ireland]
Metro
delays hold off congestion charges [Dublin]
London Evening Standard
Speed
cameras are good for you [published 9th Jan as The speed camera whingers']
Saturday 10th January, 2004
BBC
Fine
threat for distant parkers
Guardian
Backlash
at £2 fare for one-stop tube journey
This
is the night mail, with its last orders
Sir
Philip ducks out as Shell cuts its reserves
Fear
of flying [comment]
Independent *
Reserves
shock wipes £8bn from value of oil giant Shell
Night
train that turned post into poetry makes its final delivery
Telegraph
Speed
trap caught man 10 times
Shell
in reserves 'bombshell'
Howell
calls for rail restructure
Times
Labour
repays £78,000 airport donations
How
Shell blew a hole in a 100-year reputation
So
I drove a little too fast . . . where’s the crime in that? [comment]
Friday 9th January, 2004
BBC
Global
warming 'biggest threat'
Climate
risk 'to million species'
Climate
threat: What species are at risk?
Support
for Thames bridge
End of
line for mail trains
Services
restored on rail line [ECML]
UK's
airline blacklist published
Can Detroit
dodge the bullet?
Blue-sky
thinking about climate
Richer,
stouter, and no happier
Financial Times *
UK
names airlines banned over safety concerns
American
passport measures 'unworkable'
Appointment
of rail regulator welcomed
UK
moves on carbon emission targets
Guardian
Revealed:
airlines barred from Britain
UK
pleads for easing of $100 visa ruling
Livingstone
gains £200m government support for new Thames bridge
The
drivers' dilemma: pay for the pleasure of empty roads or let gridlock take
its toll
A
policy route less travelled - and likely to stay that way
Top
scientist attacks US over global warming
No-frills
flying pulls in travellers
On
a different planet [letters]
Independent *
'US
climate policy bigger threat to world than terrorism'
Airlines
from eight nations banned for poor safety records
Government
backs new London bridge
Telegraph
Banned
airlines named
Nature
thinks it's spring
Airlines
blame Bush
Times
US
global warming delay 'worse threat than al-Qaeda'
Winter's
tale was over before it even began
Sunniest
ever, but now for the bad news...
Spring
in their step as lambs arrive early
EasyJet
traffic levels shrug off security fears
Name
the unsafe airlines, demand passenger groups
Airlines
banned from operating in the UK [graphic]
Backing
for new six-lane bridge over the Thames
£67
visa rules will stop tourists visiting US, say travel experts
Fury
at advice to speed on riskiest road
Post-sorting
trains are now cancelled
I
have nothing to be ashamed of over rail firm, says Norris
Desire
to consume threatens the planet
Old
hand to run 'less personal' rail regulatory board
Working
on familiar lines
Thursday 8th January, 2004
BBC
Banned
airlines 'will be named'
Climate
fears after hottest year [Scotland]
Speed
camera error exposed
US urged to
extend visa deadline
Ship shape
[QM2]
Motorists
see red at 73 lights [Dorset]
Delays
on busy train route [ECML]
Investors
latch onto BA revival
Sony rapped
over car music advert
Financial Times *
UK
to publish list of airlines banned over safety fears
BA
travellers return despite terrorist threat
Global
warming 'will kill tenth of species'
Guardian
Action
now could still save some threatened species
An
unnatural disaster
Keeping
a river industry afloat [Thames]
MP
proposes to fine children who cycle without helmets
Network
Rail's move will cost £15m, says Carillion
UK's
love of motors pushes sales to 2.6m
Divorce
the
car, and learn to love the traffic warden [comment]
Independent *
Global
warming will cause extinction of a million species in 50 years
Britons
will need visas to visit US
Hard
core of drivers ignoring drink limit
Cancer
increase driven by obesity and suntanning
Lost
rail contract to cost Carillion £22m
Telegraph
New
car sales soar
Brits
love their cars [leader]
Travellers
face visa chaos
New
visa rules will hit Britons hardest
Wildlife
under threat
Wildlife
in peril worldwide
Rail
safety defended
Times
First
park your car, then pay by phone
Wildlife
begins to feel the heat of global warming
Sales
by MG Rover slump as UK hits record
Car
sales go up a gear [graphic]
What's
black, has a big bottom and is hated by Middle England's drivers?
[comment]
Wednesday 7th January, 2004
BBC
Record
UK car sales during 2003
Delays
continue on London trains
Rail watchdog
'being undermined'
Confusing
cockpits 'unsafe'
Milton
Keynes to double in size
Financial Times *
BA
travellers return despite terrorist threat
UK
transport secretary defends use of air marshals
Air
traffic control's financial structure 'stronger'
Guardian
Rail
union accused of using 'rogue' tactics against staff
20m
fee for air traffic rescue
Independent *
Aslef
goes off the rails with threat to employ 'scab' labour
Inquiry
launched into 'dramatic' rise in number of rail consultants
December
surge takes car sales to a record 2.58 million
BA
revenue boost lifts terrorism gloom
Telegraph
Camera
proved wrong
Nats
rescue 'a success'
Times
Pilots
win battle to be in charge of air marshals
One
drink-driver caught every hour [Scotland]
Tuesday 6th January, 2004
BBC
Commuters
face rush hour delays
Commuters
face rush hour delays [2]
[Coventry]
Airport plan causes tree fears
[Humberside]
Airport defends its security
Porsche's
daring expansion plan [SUVs]
Guardian
Rail
chaos after crane falls on tracks
Milton
Keynes to double in size over next 20 years
Traffic
bill under fire from all sides
Wardens
ponder the prospect of power
Not
fine for wardens [letters]
Independent *
Passengers
dismiss ministers' plans to strip rail chiefs of power as 'tinkering'
Traffic
wardens to hand out £100 fines
Telegraph
Crane
causes rail delays
Bolt
secures rail post
Times
Misery
on trains as crane falls on track
It's
the green, clean, family-friendly machine that manufacturers tell us is
the future of motoring
Quiet,
economical and a joy to drive
...
but are these the muscle cars they want us to buy
London Evening Standard
Two
more days of Waterloo rail chaos
Monday 5th January, 2004
BBC
MPs
to debate new traffic plans
Tilting
trains for west coast line
Tube
fares rise
Air alert delays
'to last years'
Advance
train bookings barred [NW]
'Rescue'
kicks off new car launches [US]
FT *
Travellers
face years of delays to flights
Fare
rise and road hold-ups mark end of holiday
Guardian
Air
travellers face years of chaos
Chaos
predicted as widening of M25 begins
Motorists
'face new purge by wardens'
BA
to save £400m with more job cuts
Put
the brake on speeding proposals [letters]
Independent *
Furious
ministers to strip rail chiefs of power
Unhappy
new year for commuters with fare rises and delays
Plan
for 'super-wardens' to fine errant drivers
Embattled
British Airways may cut more jobs
Telegraph
Slow
road back to work
Wardens'
powers 'open to abuse'
Times
Back-to-work
chaos as repairs clog the roads
Going
nowhere [graphic]
Tube
errors may cost you dear
Eurostar
demand increases with new services
Labour
plans to build on countryside
Pilots
fear delays are ploy to back air marshals plan
Penalties
for speeding motorists [letters]
Pay
and display rip-off [letter]
London Evening Standard
'Secret'
fares increase hits Tube and bus users
Return
to rail chaos
Sunday 4th January, 2004
BBC
Drivers
'face new fines'
Two
years of roadworks on M25
Independent on Sunday *
Air
passengers will face disruption for years
SAS
takes off on the low-budget vapour trail
Snowflake
is the SAS chief's hope in long-haul hell
Observer
Motorists
face new enforcers
New
Labour's contrail
Airline
industry on frontline in al-Qaeda's war on the west
Sunday Telegraph
Low
rates drive up new car sales
Savings
plans for BA
Sunday Times
Drivers
face more cameras and new fines
Breath
test kit to immobilise cars
Saturday 3rd January, 2004
BBC
Train firm
considers Europe travel
Service
resumed on trams [Manchester]
Independent *
Bureaucrats
ignore regional railways, says train operator
Mayor
faces Labour row over traffic charge
Telegraph
M6
toll speeds up traffic
Times
Air
delays will grow with new terror checks
Arriva
eager to expand in Europe
Friday 2nd January, 2004
BBC
Use lower gears,
motorists urged
Car crime falls
but fear remains
Carmakers
hope for healthy year
FT *
'Co-opetition'
across national borders vital to future of Europe's high-speed railway
services
Independent *
Suburban
drivers to face tolls in congestion charge shake-up
Telegraph
Car
tax instant fines
Times
Danger
abroad on roads
London Evening Standard
C-charge
to hit suburbs
Thursday 1st January, 2004
BBC
Pilots agree
deal on air marshals
Toll's
cash lift for ambulance
Guardian
Hi-tech
gear needed to enforce Lakes speed limit
Independent *
Pilots'
union to allow sky marshals despite reservations
Times
Instant
fines are the new 'stealth tax'
Buyers
come to Brighouse for its motorway, not bright lights
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