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Commons votes for early election as Corbyn hits campaign trail
Jeremy Corbyn just turned up at his first campaign event in Croydon. He was greeted by supporters, one embraced him and said “she loved him.”
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Theresa May is in Leeds tonight to reiterate her message of stable leadership. Tonight she’s talking to Conservative supporters at an event in Harehills a traditionally Labour voting, working-class area. Her Labour challenger was, once again, focusing on policy issues – today it was the country’s housing shortage – though Mr Corbyn also faced a…
Jeremy Corbyn just turned up at his first campaign event in Croydon. He was greeted by supporters, one embraced him and said “she loved him.”
While nests are protected, that’s not always easy when trees have to be cut down – something Network Rail says is vital to running a safe and efficient railway. But what more could more be done to save them?
Union members have rejected a deal to end the long-running dispute at Southern Rail. Passengers on Southern services have suffered months of delays and cancellations in the dispute over driver-only trains.
For rail travellers, those dreaded three words: bus replacement service. That’s been the story for thousands of rail travellers today as staff at Merseyrail, Northern Rail and Southern Rail walked out in a dispute over driver-operated trains.
The era of empty talk is over, Donald Trump declared, promising to begin work on his campaign pledges and repeating his attacks on the media – this time, claiming anonymous sources should be banned.
It’s been another day of industrial action affecting transport services.
It’s the first Monday in January and that can only mean one thing – rail fares rise again.
There’s a glimpse of relief for hundreds of thousands of commuters who’ve been facing the worst rail disruption for almost 20 years: talks will be held tomorrow aimed at resolving the strike by drivers on Southern Rail which has brought the network’s entire service to a halt.
Another revolution in the running of Britain’s railways is on the way. The Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, has announced that publicly-owned Network Rail is to share its responsibilities with private train operating companies.
While Chris Grayling says he’s not in favour of “throwing everything up in the air and doing a massive reorganisation”, alarm bells start ringing when in the next breath he’s hailing a “new golden era for rail”.
It’s that time of year: when the decorations go up in the high street – and the fares go up on the railway lines. This year’s rise of 2.3 per cent, taking effect on January the 2nd, will be the highest for three years.
More than 100 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a passenger train derailed in Northern India. Rescuers are struggling to find and free survivors in the wreckage of the crowded passenger train. Assed Baig reports.
At least seven people were killed when a rush-hour tram derailed at speed in south London this morning. More than 50 others were injured and the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has warned that the number of deaths could rise. Diana Magnay reports.
Report by TUC union show rail fares rising faster than wages over the last five years as announcement is expected that fares for next year will rise just one per cent – the lowest rise since 2002