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Labour manifesto includes ‘major changes’, says Shadow Transport Secretary
We spoke to Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh who was in Grimsby where the Sky leaders’ event took place.
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SEND transport services for kids cut due to squeezed local council budgets
As the parties prepare to deliver their manifestos, parents of children with special educational needs will be casting a close eye over them.
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Cabinet reshuffle: ‘The country trusts Cameron’, says transport minister
We spoke to the transport minister Huw Merriman about today’s cabinet reshuffle.
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Can Manchester’s ‘transformational’ public transport be a template for the UK?
50 yellow branded buses are taking to the streets of Manchester this weekend, the first area in England and Wales, outside London, to have its own regulated bus system since privatisation almost four decades ago.
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France riots: public transport shut down as more unrest expected
Public transport will shut down early across France tonight in an effort to prevent a fourth night of violence following the fatal police shooting of a seventeen year old boy.
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‘Due reason’ for Boris’ honours list choices, says former Director of Transport
We were joined by Kulveer Ranger, who was Director of Transport Policy for Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London.
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Political leaders from North of England call for increased investment in the region’s transport network
Political leaders from the North of England have called for increased investment in the region’s transport network, saying that it will help it to reach its economical potential. Tracy Brabin, the Labour mayor of West Yorkshire, was one of the speakers at the annual Transport for the North conference in Newcastle. She began by giving…
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“We can’t have new roads and new public transport, we can’t afford it,” says a transport expert
We’re joined by Professor Jillian Anable, who is Transport and Energy Chair for the University of Leeds.
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London brought to halt by transport strikes
Today it was Londoners who were stopped in their tracks by industrial action, with strikes by both Tube workers and bus drivers.
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Transport chaos: week-long train and tube strikes set to go ahead
A week of transport chaos in England, Scotland and Wales is set to go ahead
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Rail workers risk ‘striking themselves out of a job’ says Transport Secretary
The Transport Secretary has warned rail workers that they risk “striking themselves out of a job”.
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Ukranians fleeing country will remember experience forever, former Kindertransport child Lord Dubs says
More than 100,000 Britons have offered sanctuary to Ukrainian refugees under the government scheme launched yesterday.
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UK ports asked to deny access to Russian vessels by Transport Secretary
The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has written to all UK ports asking them to deny access to vessels linked to Russia – saying they were not welcome here.
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£6.9bn to be unveiled for public transport in next week’s Budget
English regions will be given a total of almost seven billion pounds to improve urban transport, to be unveiled in next week’s Budget.
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Government’s 5,000 HGV visas won’t ‘scratch the surface’ of shortage, chairman of Transport Association says
The fuel crisis began with a shortage of hauliers, caused in part by pandemic disruption, but Brexit also played a part.
