Fuel price warning if Asda forecourt mega-merger goes ahead January 23, 2023 A MOOTED merger between Asda and its owners’ separate forecourt business could lead to significantly higher fuel prices, a campaign group has warned. The billionaires – who bought Asda in 2020 for £6.8bn – are reportedly plotting to merge the supermarket chain with their forecourt business EG Group. The merger could create a new company [...]
Is it Avanti? The award for Britain’s worst rail network goes to…. January 23, 2023 Avanti West Coast is the country’s worst train operator when it comes to cancellations, according to a new ranking. A Press Association analysis of recent data published by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) shows that Avanti West Coast’s cancellation score for the four weeks ended 7 January was 18.9 per cent. Cancellation score [...]
Flying the green flag: Ryanair’s £140m Boeing deal will save airline ’65m litres of fuel’ a year January 23, 2023 Ryanair claimed its $175m (£140m) deal with Boeing’s subsidiary and technology company Aviation Partners Boeing will help it make huge cuts to fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Under the agreement, 400 of the low-cost airline’s aircraft will be retrofitted with APB’s winglets. Also known as wingtip devices, winglets are vertical extensions attached to a plane’s [...]
British Airways cancels 80 flights TODAY as freezing fog grounds Heathrow airlines January 23, 2023 Airlines have been forced to cancel dozens of flights as freezing fog engulfed Heathrow Airport this morning. Last night the west London hub told airlines such including British Airways (BA) that they would need to cut 15 per cent of their scheduled flights as a result of poor visibility. British Airways said it was working [...]
Balfour Beatty wins £1.2bn construction project aimed at easing Thames congestion January 23, 2023 Infrastructure giant Balfour Beatty has been handed a £1.2bn contract to ease congestion over the Thames. The firm secured a deal from National Highways to deliver the project which is called ‘Roads North of the Thames’. More than 10 miles of new highways will be built, connecting the M25 at Junction 29 and the A13 [...]
National Express wins £880m contract to run German rail lines January 23, 2023 National Express has been awarded a €1bn (£878m) to operate two regional train lines in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The transport group’s German rail business has won €1bn contract to run the RE1 and RE11 Rhein-Ruhr-Express (RRX) lines until 2033. The Rhein-Ruhr-Express is a regional rail network in north west Germany, in the [...]
Electric car demand jitters fail to derail government from hitting 300,000 charger target January 23, 2023 The UK government is on track to hit its target of delivering 300,000 public electric vehicle chargers by 2030, a new report out today reveals. A study by the transport organisation New Automotive shows the goal will be met despite the car industry’s scepticism over the strength of demand for electric vehicles. According to recent [...]
Govt to funnel £300m towards British Steel in bid to save struggling metal maker from collapse – reports January 20, 2023 The Government is poised to funnel nearly a third of a billion pounds towards British Steel to save the struggling metal maker from collapse, according to reports. Sky News said that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is prepared to hand the company £300 million in instalments over the next few years if it meets certain conditions. The [...]
Westminster gets hundreds more Green MPs as government on track to have quarter of cars low-emission January 20, 2023 The UK Government is on track with its green targets following an announcement that over 25 per cent of all its cars now ultra-low emission vehicles. Ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEV) are cars that use low-carbon technology, emitting less than 75g of CO2/km. These are usually either electric cars or plug-in hybrids. “As the UK moves [...]
Aston Martin to recruit over 100 people in UK to support new sports car plans January 19, 2023 Aston Martin has gone on a hiring spree, announcing today it’s seeking to recruit over 100 new positions at its Warwickshire headquarters. The luxury carmaker said the new technicians will be recruited to support the rollout of a new generation of ultra-luxury sports cars. These include a limited edition of the two-seater V12 Speedster as [...]