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GPs can now prescribe walking and cycling as treatment to improve wellbeing

Doctors will be able to prescribe projects like adult cycle training, walking groups and free bike loans

Liverpool Echo

Gateshead GPs will prescribe cycling and walking to patients

Gateshead has been awarded funding so doctors can encourage patients to exercise, including bike loans and cycle training for adults

Chronicle Live

Talking Point: What activities do you find help your mental wellbeing?

The Department for Transport is backing new schemes with health in mind

Evening Standard

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Leeds GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in new government trial

The pilots will kick off this year and run until 2025

Leeds Live

GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS

Suggestion of activities to help improve mental and physical health part of wider movement of ‘social prescribing’

The Guardian - UK

GPs to prescribe walking and cycling as mental health treatment

The DfT announced that 11 local authorities have received £12.7 million to fund pilot social prescriptions and projects like adult cycle training

The Independent UK

UK's worst rail firm Avanti pays £11m to shareholders after getting £17m taxpayers' cash

Rail operator Avanti has paid out out millions to investors despite forcing passengers to endure severe overcrowding, axed services, soaring prices and the worst train delays in the country

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DfT provides extra £130m for endangered bus routes in England

Services in the north-east and South Yorkshire were facing the axe as the expiration date for pandemic funding nears

The Guardian - UK

£17m paid to Avanti West Coast is ‘reward for failure’, says Labour

Under-fire firm given performance and management fees despite being worst-performing rail operator

The Guardian - UK

Cyclists, welcome, you have just become the latest target in the culture wars

Why would Grant Shapps have us think that number plates for bikes are a good idea? The only place that has them is North Korea, says Guardian political correspondent Peter Walker

The Guardian - UK

How much will train fares rise? What we know as major rail announcement comes on Wednesday

Although rail fares are set to increase, it reportedly won't be by the 13% margin expected

Chronicle Live

How much will train fares rise? What we know as major announcement due tomorrow

Rail fares will go up - but not by 13% - as the RPI inflation measure for July is unveiled at 7am tomorrow. It will be another blow in the cost-of-living crisis but only kick in in March 2023

Daily Mirror

'Enough is enough': North East politicians back rail strikes on Newcastle Central Station picket line amid cost-of-living crisis

Labour politicians joined train drivers on the picket line at Newcastle Central Station as industrial action saw rail services hit hard.

Chronicle Live

Train drivers to strike on Saturday in deadlocked dispute

Football fans, tourists and holidaymakers will be among tens of thousands of passengers affected by the strikes.

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Greater Manchester transport bosses’ fury at being kept in dark over Avanti trains ‘shambles’

“I find it flabbergasting that the Department for Transport have been engaged in this and signed this off, given the economic impact this will have on the city region."

Daily Mirror

Rail travellers face fresh travel misery today as drivers strike over pay dispute

Members of Aslef at nine train companies will walk out for 24 hours, crippling large parts of the network, with some parts of the country having no services

Chronicle Live

Why you need a 'UK' not 'GB' sticker or number plate to drive your car abroad in Europe

If you take your car on a ferry to France or Holland to drive abroad, your car needs a 'UK' identifier sticker or number plate

Evening Standard

TfL ‘likely to get funding deal within days to stop going bust’

TfL’s existing deal has already run out but a new agreement with the Department for Transport could come soon

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Manchester Evening News

The Northern Agenda: Right to buy is evil, says Labour council leader

Margaret Thatcher's polarising policy allowed council tenants a chance to buy their own home at a discounted rate

The Guardian - UK

Cycling growth in UK at risk of being left behind by Europe, experts warn

Bicycle sales down by a quarter on pre-pandemic levels and electric bike takeup also stalling after a boom

Daily Record

Nearly one in four people killed on UK roads weren't wearing a seatbelt, new data finds

The new data from the Department for Transport is a stark reminder on the importance of wearing a seatbelt.

Bristol Post

Huge step taken towards opening Portishead to Bristol railway line

The government has committed £15.5m to close a funding gap

The Independent UK

Leeds, Bradford and other key British cities could miss out on rail revolution

Transport Select Committee demands the Department for Transport (DfT) shows its working for changes to HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail

The Independent UK

Government’s rail cuts ‘letting down North and Midlands’ as MPs urge rethink

Transport Select Committee tells ministers to review their decision taking into account levelling-up

The Independent UK

Rail plans for North should be reconsidered to avoid missed opportunity, say MPs

The Government sparked anger in November 2021 when it published the Integrated Rail Plan.

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