On the trail of the UN monitors…
Alex Thomson, chief correspondent at Channel 4 News, reports from Syria where UN monitors are stationed.
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Alex Thomson, chief correspondent at Channel 4 News, reports from Syria where UN monitors are stationed.
Campaigners – including three protesters who chained themselves to a tree – claim victory after Network Rail postpones planned tree clearance on a railway embankment near Whitstable in Kent.
Gary Gibbon on Murdoch, text and email trails and settling accounts.
Network Rail is given a £4m fine for health and safety failures which caused the Grayrigg train crash in 2007 in which one person died and a further 86 were injured.
Faisal Islam believes the flawed separation of train and track in the privatisation of BR is set to be rolled back.
Rail travellers could pay more to travel at the busiest times of the morning and evening rush-hours under new government proposals.
Take Network Rail, for example. Bosses there have announced they won’t accept their bonuses – but not before the mother of all ding dongs between the transport secretary and her Labour nemesis about whether or not the government had any power over their remuneration.Now, in respectful homage to Dickens and the man of fact and calculations himself, Thomas Gradgrind, FactCheck has unearthed an interesting document which casts light on this dispute.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum interviews Professor Gene Sharp who says anti-government protesters in Syria who pick up arms are suicidal.
Network Rail has admitted three health and safety breaches over the deaths of two girls at a level crossing in Essex, a court has heard.
In a letter rejecting the BMA’s “blanket opposition” to the new health and social care bill, senior doctors say the NHS will be in “peril” if government health reforms are derailed.
It is the Bank of England governor’s piercing assault on bankers that sticks in the mind from today’s important speech in Brighton. He doesnt quite join Occupy the City, but he does suggest that British capitalism’s very legitimacy is up for grabs if bankers go too far on pay.
“Sources in the rail industry have told FactCheck there was nothing to stop Labour from specifying a longer period of time in this document if they had really wanted the change to last longer than one year.”
Transport Secretary Justine Greening launches the HS2 project which promises to slash journey times between major UK cities – but campaigners tell Channel 4 News there could be legal challenges.
A government-commissioned report gives the clearest indication yet that the proposed £32 billion HS2 high-speed rail project will be given the go ahead.
A coalition of business figures, economists and union bosses press the government to move ahead with a controversial high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham.