No more impunity for dangerous driving abroad.

Three quarters of road deaths in Europe are caused by speeding, drink driving, jumping red lights and not wearing a seatbelt. As things stand, if you do any of these things outside the country your car is registered in, you'll go unpunished even though if you could kill someone. This is about to change. The latest EU road safety initiative aims to make the person behind the wheel accountable for their driving behaviour through a new legal framework backed up by a data exchange network to identify offending drivers throughout the EU. The new proposals are expected to radically reduce the number of deaths on the road

Chaos at Terminal 5

British Airways says 12 more short-haul flights to and from Heathrow's troubled Terminal 5 have been cancelled, taking the total to 66. The further cancellations were caused by problems with the baggage system, BA said. The disruption was due to continue with 37 flights cancelled on 30th March. The previous evening, leaflets were handed out to passengers whose flights had been delayed or cancelled, saying they were entitled to £100 compensation for two people sharing a hotel room. Staff at the £4.3bn terminal's hotels reservation centre said the minimum rate on Thursday night for a double room was £250. 'However, on Friday night, BA announced the policy had been abandoned and it would cover "reasonable costs".

Cost clobbers Munich high-speed train link

Germany has scrapped plans to build an ultra high-speed rail link between the city of Munich and its airport. Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said the Transrapid line would be too expensive at well over three billion euros compared to 1.85 billion euros original estimate. Tiefensee said: "From the start there was a basic condition that this high-tech project would only go ahead if there was an appropriate cost-benefit ratio. The Transrapid - which runs at speeds of over 400 kilometres an hour using a magneticlevitation system - was developed by German engineers at Siemens and ThyssenKrupp. There is only one such commercial line operating and is in Shanghai, China.

Tata buys Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford

India's Tata Motors is buying the Britishbased luxury car marques Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford for 1.46 billion euros in cash. Tata Motors, is India's top bus and lorry manufacturer and its thirdlargest car maker. Group Chairman Ratan Tata said: "We have enormous respect for the two brands and will endeavour to preserve and build on their heritage and competitiveness, keeping their identities intact." Union leader Des Quinn said the workers are happy: "We believe it means stability and hopefully good news looking forward. We've had written assurances there will be no plant closures, no job losses, that their pay, their conditions, their pensions will be guaranteed. The two companies employ a total of 19,000 people at five plants in central and north west England. Last year Tata bought the Anglo- Dutch steelmaker Corus for €8.25 billion. How will Jaguar and Land Rover fit into its stable of vehicles, including the Nano, the world's cheapest car?

Alitalia unions cold shoulder new takeover offer

Alitalia's unions have sharply criticised Air France-KLM's modified plan on job cuts, but said they will still attend a meeting on 31 March with the management of the two airlines. The Franco-Dutch carrier has said it will not go ahead with takeover plans without the support of the unions. Trying to get that, Air France boss Jean-Cyril Spinetta's latest concession is an offer to cut fewer workers from Alitalia's ground services unit, but he said going further would "call into question the very foundation" of the airline's plan for Alitalia. Although it earns 1.2 million euros each day, Alitalia loses one million euros per day and is running out of money. At the end of January its cash reserves were just 282 million euros. It is also running out of time:

Air France- KLM has said a deal must be reached by the end of the month or it will give up. The revised takeover plan includes 2,100 job cuts and ending the Italian carrier's cargo flights within two years. Alitalia shares suffered further heavy falls in response to the union's rejection of the concessions as "inadequate."

Open Skies arrangements

The long-awaited "open skies" agreement between the US and European Union (EU) is coming into effect, aiming to open up trans-Atlantic air travel. The deal ends limits on which airlines can fly between the US and EU, and it is expected to lead to a large rise in the number of carriers on the routes. However, changes at big airports such as Heathrow will be minimised by the limited availability of take-off slots. New trans-Atlantic services are likely to use smaller airports instead. A key component of the agreement between the EU and the US is that any European airline will be able to fly to the US from anywhere in the EU - not just from its home nation.