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The Sun: Hilary Benn Has Sex Change! (Iain Dale's Diary)

noreply@blogger.com (Iain Dale) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:39:00 GMT

The Sun's online article on a possible reshuffle tips Environment Secretary Hilary Benn to be on HER way out. Ruth Kelly, will naturally keep his post...

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Plans For Mainline Station At Heathrow (workinproperty)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Plans for a mainline railway station linking Heathrow airport to the rest of the national rail network, including a high-speed rail link to the Channel tunnel line, are to be outlined to Ruth Kelly, transport secretary, today. The scheme is being promoted by Arup , the civil engineering consultant, which estimates the project would cost £4.5bn and could be completed by 2019. The new Heathrow Hub station,...

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More Hard Shoulder Running on the Way for Birmingham (Net News Publisher)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:27:59 GMT

A £96m contract to install the technology that will allow the hard shoulder on parts of the motorway network around Birmingham to be opened to traffic during busy periods has been awarded to Carillion. This comes less than a week after Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly announced a £6 billion investment program to improve and make [...]

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Pay As You Go Motorway Lanes (Karen's Blog)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:38:21 GMT

The transport secretary Ruth Kelly has set out plans for pay as you go lanes on motorways . Under the scheme motorists would pay around £5 a time to use the lanes which would allow them to bypass motorway jams. On some motorways widening schemes would be put in place to create an extra lane but others would make use of the existing hard shoulder. Whilst the idea is interesting I'm not entirely sure...

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More costs for the motorist? (Andrew Allison)

noreply@blogger.com (Andrew Allison) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:58:00 GMT

Stuck in a traffic jam? Tempted to use the hard shoulder? Thanks to the awfully nice Ruth Kelly, soon you will, although there will be a £5 administration and processing fee. This government just doesn't get it, does it? Read the full story HERE .

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Hard shoulder running - it’s in! (the Courier Shop blog)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:47:52 GMT

That’s right, Ruth Kelly has announced today after successful trials in the Midlands, hard shoulder running will be allowed at a price. Hard shoulder running is to be introduced on 500 miles of British motorways. These are thought to include the M3 and M4 coming into London, the M4 and M5 around Bristol, and the [...]

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Archbishop: Christian doctrine is ‘offensive to Muslims’ (Cranmer)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:08:00 GMT

Should any of Cranmer’s readers or communicants be interested, the voting preferences for votes cast electronically at the recent sessions of the General Synod are on-line . Some bishops abstained and some, in true Ruth Kelly style, absented themselves. All of this is proving highly entertaining for those who profess allegiance to the Bishop of Rome, highly embarrassing for those who profess allegiance...

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$12 Billion Investment to Improve England’s Congested Roads (Net News Publisher)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:00:42 GMT

Ruth Kelly, Transport Secretary, today announced a £6 billion investment package to improve and make better use of England’s motorways and other key roads and also published the Command Paper ‘Roads - Delivering Choice and Reliability’ setting out more detail on her innovative plans to tackle congestion, both on strategic routes and in our towns [...]

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Road spending is carbon catastrophe - Baker (Liberal Democrats)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Commenting on Ruth Kelly’s announcement that £6bn will be spent on road improvements by 2014, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Norman Baker said: "This is a carbon catastrophe. Yet more funding is being channelled into increasing road capacity rather than expanding the railways and supporting public transport. "This Department has lazily fallen back on predict and provide and has chosen...

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Kelly calls on business to beat M-way jams (Financial Time)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:34:00 GMT

Ruth Kelly, transport secretary, will invite the private sector to come up with innovative schemes to tackle gridlock on Britain's motorways, including the possibility of turning hard shoulders into toll lanes to beat the jams

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Campaign for A11 dualling builds (EADT24 - News)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:21:30 GMT

PRESSURE is mounting on Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly to make an immediate commitment to provide the £135million needed to complete the dualling of the A11.

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Kelly looks to bring in compulsory CO2 targets for new cars. (TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:38:24 GMT

Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has launched today, a consultation on European Commission (EC) proposals to introduce compulsory CO2 targets for new cars. The proposed target of 130gCO2/km by 2012 as the fleet average for each car manufacturer across the EU for all new cars is being promoted as an important step forward in tackling climate change, [...]

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HFE Bill postponed 'to avoid offending Catholics’? (Cranmer)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:04:00 GMT

It appears that Ruth Kelly arranged her Brussels escape route in vain, for Labour has announced an amendment to next week's parliamentary business. There was due to be a debate and vote on the remaining stages of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, and Mrs Kelly had been given permission by the Prime Minister to attend to very urgent business in Brussels. But Harriet Harman has now rescheduled...

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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:55:00 GMT

Ruth Kelly has launched a consultation into plans to limit new vehicle CO2 emissions to 130g/km.

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'Food versus fuel debate is far too simplistic' – McLaren (Scotsman.com)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:40:06 GMT

THE indication this week from Ruth Kelly, the Transport Secretary, that there will be a major rethink on the initial target of a 5 per cent biofuel content in diesel by 2010

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Ruth Kelly delays Heathrow decision (Another Green World)

noreply@blogger.com (Derek Wall) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:48:00 GMT

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'Runway wobble' blast for Ruth Kelly (Bolton Evening News)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:57:59 GMT

Ruth Kelly's delay over the decision on Heathrow Airport expansion has been branded a "runway wobble".

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Heathrow delay could be chink of light - Baker (Liberal Democrats)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Commenting on Ruth Kelly’s announcement that a decision on Heathrow’s expansion has been delayed, Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Norman Baker said: "Today’s delay could be a chink of light for those fighting against Heathrow’s expansion. "It looks like the Government has realised quite how unpopular its policy is and is now looking for a way out. "Alternatively it could be that BAA is...

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UK to slow expansion of biofuels (Democratic Underground)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:48:38 GMT

Source: [b]BBC News[/b] The UK is to slow its adoption of biofuels, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has told the House of Commons. She said that while biofuels had the potential to cut carbon emissions there were "increasing questions" about them. The uncontrolled expansion of biofuels might...

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Ruth Kelly should be ashamed to call herself a Catholic (Anglican Mainstream)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:49:35 GMT

By Andrew Pierce, Daily Telegraph It would appear that Ruth Kelly’s Roman Catholic conscience is clear after securing permission to miss the Commons vote on the Human Embryology Bill on Monday. Her friends in the Commons have applauded her courage in resisting Gordon Brown’s diktat that all Labour MPs, irrespective of their religious beliefs, support the [...]

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