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Reports suggest cuts in Great Britain would include removing ‘duplication’ of teams, as well job losses at HS2Thousands of jobs could go as part of the government’s planned shake-up of Britain’s railway industry, according to a report.Under Labour’s pl…
Heidi Alexander declines to say she has confidence in Thomas Woldbye after airport chaos at the weekendBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK’s transport secretary has said she would “struggle to sleep” if she had been running Heathrow airport, amid repo…
Understanding the rightwing backlash over the government scheme helping people with serious disabilities get carsThis article is an extract from our First Edition newsletter. Sign up hereMotability really ought to be a boring subject: a government sche…
Talks to take place with operators about the scheme, announced in 2020, which has failed to make any grantsMinisters are considering diverting money from a £950m scheme to install rapid chargers for electric cars on the UK’s motorways, announced five y…
More than a thousand flights were cancelled on Friday after a fire at an electrical substation caused a power cutHeathrow airport has returned to normal business two days after it was forced to close when a fire at an electrical substation caused a pow…
Government says lessons need to be learned after the substation fire that caused chaos for 300,000 passengersThe government has launched an urgent investigation into the power shutdown that crippled Heathrow airport, with experts warning it was a “wake…
Thomas Woldbye says most other airports operate similar back-up power systems to Heathrow, as Ed Miliband announces investigationThe chief executive of Heathrow has defended the running of the airport after a fire at an electrical substation stopped ab…
Miliband said he wanted ‘to understand any wider lessons to be learned on energy resilience for critical national infrastructure’Willie Walsh, the International Air Transport Association’s director general, criticised Heathrow airport in as a result of…
Andy Burnham hails ‘truly integrated, London-style’ system with fares calculated and capped automaticallyManchester will enjoy a transport network on “a footing with London, New York and Madrid” when contactless tap-in fares launch across its buses fro…
Airport expects to be fully operational on Saturday, but airlines say closure will have ‘huge impact’ in coming daysFlights began landing at Heathrow on Saturday morning as it aimed to return to normal operation after shutting down over a loss of power…