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Local parliamentarians at odds with their parties

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North extension to high-speed service includes five new stations

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Growth engine or fast train for fat cats?

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Demand boosts Ryanair’s profits outlook

Airline’s average fares lift after strong pre-Christmas traffic

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Cosco shares drop after profit warning

Chinese shipping group faces ‘significant’ full-year loss

From MEDIA 12:01am

Demand for restraint to hit bonuses

Many groups also plan to freeze pay

RAIL 12:00am

Cameron to stress importance of HS2

Prime minister to avoid criticism by stressing how ‘vital’ link is to economy

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IAG’s Vueling plan risks union conflict

Move to replace many European flights with low-cost carrier

AIRLINES 9:08pm

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Unions give mixed messages over job cut proposals at Iberia

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European airlines: Rake’s on a plane

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AIRLINES Jan 27, 2013

Rake to step down as easyJet chairman

Airline is on the verge of FTSE 100 membership

From WORLD Jan 25, 2013

Heathrow left out of rail plans

Uncertainty over future role of UK’s biggest airport

From INDUSTRIALS Jan 25, 2013

Stobart fights to find fans in the City

Group famous for its lorries has tense relationship with investors

AIRLINES Jan 25, 2013

Boeing battery fire ‘unprecedented’

‘All hands on deck’ to determine what went wrong on 787

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Jan 24, 2013

Tyne plans big renewable energy investment

Once-renowned coal port to put £180m into wood-pellet trade

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A mechanic of All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner plane is seen through a steel fence at Haneda airport in Tokyo January 16, 2013. All Nippon Airways Co Ltd said it will ground all of its Boeing Co 787 planes on Thursday after one of its domestic flights was forced to make an emergency landing in western Japan earlier on Wednesday. An ANA spokesman said this would result in the cancellation of around 35 domestic flights on Thursday and added that the airline would decide on Thursday whether to fly the Dreamliner the following day. ©Reuters While coverage of the grounded Dreamliner has focused on Japan and the US, the problem is global

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