Sunshine and warmth return to UK this week
Following last week’s Arctic chill, summer-like warmth is returning – but how long will it last?
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Following last week’s Arctic chill, summer-like warmth is returning – but how long will it last?
There’s just one more month of summer left to go. Will August deliver the sunshine and warmth that’s been lacking this year?
It’s been yet another day of disruption for train passengers.
The RMT union has rejected the latest pay offer from rail companies and Network Rail as “dreadful”.
With more stoppages planned across the public sector later this month, 2023 is starting as it means to go on.
Almost all Christmas Eve train services have ground to a halt, with the latest round of RMT rail strikes due to start tonight.
We speak to the Rail Minister Huw Merriman and ask if the government should be doing more to end the industrial disputes.
We speak to the RMT union boss Mick Lynch and asked why his members had voted to reject the latest pay offer, given that members in Scotland voted to accept another deal.
Rail union leaders have announced more strikes over the Christmas period after rejecting revised pay offers in last-ditch talks. Two rounds of strikes were already scheduled, but now RMT boss Mick Lynch says workers will walk out on Christmas Eve.
We spoke to the general secretary of the RMT, Mick Lynch, and asked him what he has to say to the millions of families that will be affected by the strikes.
There is to be another series of strikes on the railways as the RMT announces eight days of industrial action over mid-December and the start of the new year.
The head of the RMT union Mick Lynch has warned the railway industry is ‘in crisis’ and that strike action across the rail network will go ahead as planned in the next two weeks if a deal cannot be reached, though he said a meeting with the transport secretary was very “pleasant”. We spoke to…
Don’t travel by train – that was the advice to passengers today as another strike by thousands of rail workers caused widespread disruption to services across the country.
We were joined by the assistant general secretary of the RMT union, John Leach.
The head of the RMT, Mick Lynch, joined us.