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Transport Secretary Philip Hammond backs controversial plans to build a London to Birmingham high speed rail link through the Chilterns – but pledges more than half the route will be amended.
Train passengers face a rise in rail fares of an average of 6.2 per cent in January – an “outrageous” figure that masks the real rise from individual companies, campaigners tell Channel 4 News.
After a nine year wait, Network Rail and maintenance company Jarvis Rail are to be prosecuted over the 2002 Potters Bar train crash in which seven people died, writes Julian Rush.
As investigations continue into how a cement mixer crashed over a bridge onto a train in Oxshott, Surrey, one survivor tells Channel 4 News her first thought was that it was a bomb.
Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on how government sources are expecting some train fares to be over 30 per cent higher by 2015, and industry sources pointed towards a 40 per cent hike by 2015.
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond faces protests from campaigners against a new high speed rail line route. Cathy Newman learns that at least two ministers may resign if the route is not changed.
Jon Snow
I came to after my post-debate reverie on the 17th floor of the Radisson Hotel in Birmingham at 6:05am to the dulcet tones of Evan Davis and the Today Programme. Had a bath, caught the 6:30am to Euston. One scrambled egg and salmon and a black coffee later I arrived having been online throughout the…
With ash silencing our skies – what about the future plans from Labour, Conservatives & Lib Dems for high speed rail? Will we get it? And if so, when?
Jon Snow
Jon Snow blogs on his extensive rail journeys he is making to cover the 2010 general election.
The holy grail is high up in the Bolivian Andes, 3,700 metres above sea level, hidden beneath a crust of pure white salt. The Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, contains the world’s largest reserves of lithium, the essential ingredient in the batteries which power electric cars. President Obama has said he wants…
Liam Dutton
Storm Ashley is going to hit the UK on Sunday, with amber and yellow warnings issued. Where will be worst affected?
We spoke to Rebecca Wilcox – she’s the daughter of television presenter Dame Esther Rantzen, who has terminal lung cancer – and Dr Cajetan Skowronski, a geriatric and palliative care doctor.
Just outside the Cornish town of St Austell lie the vast open cast mines of a china clay industry, which is now long past its heyday. But these pits also contain some of the most important reserves of lithium in Europe, and a number of companies are now poised to exploit that.
“They speak to us like human beings,” says Lucy, when I ask about staff at the Bella Community Unit in Dundee. This isn’t like any prison she’s been in before.