Karen Hoggan Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Mobile phone blackspots will be eliminated on several major railway lines and train tunnels by 2028, the body which runs Britain’s railway infrastructure has pledged. Network Rail, which is owned by the government, has signed a deal with two private telecoms firms in a move it claims...
Big old meeting planned at The Hague for all the NATO mucky mucks got off to a late start for them and an embarrassing one for their European counterparts. Everyone was landing at Schiphol, the airport in Amsterdam. The airport is feeling its oats about the incoming bigwigs. They sure seemed stoked to have this...
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca says it is “impossible” to organise normal training sessions amid a “code red” severe heat warning in Philadelphia at the Club World Cup. The Blues players trained at Subaru Park, the home of local Major League Soccer (MLS) side Philadelphia Union, in 37C. The 45% humidity means it feels more like...
British Steel has secured a five-year contract worth £500m to supply train tracks for Network Rail, in a move which could help safeguard the short-term future of the Scunthorpe steelworks. The company will forge more than 337,000 tonnes of track, securing thousands of jobs, two months after the government used emergency powers to prevent the...
PA How to Train Your Dragon star Gerard Butler said he can’t imagine a sequel being filmed anywhere else but Northern Ireland Hollywood actor Gerard Butler has said he felt like Belfast’s “adopted son” while filming How to Train Your Dragon in Northern Ireland. The first live-action remake of the hit animated trilogy was produced...
Simon Browning, Nick Marsh, and Faarea Masud BBC News Sam Williamson Train passengers are suffering unfair penalties for minor and often genuine mistakes in buying tickets, an inquiry has found. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said Britain’s fare system was “complex” and that rail firms must stop taking “disproportionate action” against travellers. Sam...
Trains between Glasgow and London have been disrupted by damage to overhead electric lines caused by a fallen tree in southern Scotland. Avanti West Coast said all lines were blocked between Lockerbie and Carstairs and services would be affected until 14:00. Some services scheduled to start in Glasgow now starting in Preston, Lancashire, and experiencing...
England are using heated tents as part of training to replicate the conditions they could experience at the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico next year. Thomas Tuchel and his squad are in Girona in Spain for a training camp. England play Andorra in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday before playing Senegal...
Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor’s Office Moscow officials shared an image appearing to show the collapse, which has not been verified by the BBC At least three people have died after a highway bridge collapsed in a region close to the Ukraine border, according to Russian emergency services. The bridge in Bryansk brought down several heavy...
John Danks BBC News, Devon BBC Lydia was originally built in 1925 A luxury railway carriage used on the train that carried Winston Churchill during World War Two has undergone restoration work in Devon. The Pullman coach, named Lydia and originally built in 1925, has been in the workshop at the South Devon Railway in...
Eighteen-year-olds will be allowed to drive trains after the minimum age was lowered from 20 in a bid to tackle driver shortages. UK rail services are frequently disrupted due to a lack of drivers being available, and the problem is set to get worse with companies struggling to replace a growing number of people retiring...
Volunteers are needed to become puppy raisers to meet the demand for trained guide dogs in the south west. The Guide Dogs charity said it was seeking people in Devon and Cornwall prepared to train and home more than 200 dogs while they go through months of training. Leah Rogers, the charity’s puppy raising manager,...
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    One of the most important insights of public policy is the understanding that most laws are predicated upon a (stated or unstated) quid pro quo.     Take, for example, the roiling monthslong debate about President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. Prior to the media uproar over the much-ballyhooed...
Robin Jenkins Trevor Greenfield and his wife, Eileen, were among the group of passengers stranded at Swindon Train passengers were left “distressed” and “confused” when the driver of a packed train encouraged them to get off at a station for some fresh air – only to leave without them. Trevor Greenfield, 74, and his wife,...