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Watchdog calls for ticket office closures to be delayed over machine upgrades.
Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith said passengers risk being ‘disadvantaged’ if that does not happen.
Government ‘may have broken the law over sewage’
The Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs, the Environment Agency and Ofwat may have misinterpreted the law.
James Cleverly holidayed with well-connected Tory lobbyist in Gibraltar
Ahzaz Chowdhury previously worked as a lobbyist for the government of Gibraltar.
Mick Lynch slams ‘sham’ ticket office consultation
“The whole thing is designed so that they can force this through in a way that they want.”
Climate protesters interrupt Tory MP Michelle Donelan’s AI speech
Climate protesters disrupted a speech by a Government minister at an artificial intelligence festival in London.
Tony Blair’s Labour warning: ‘Don’t resort to old ways of taxing and spending’
The former premier said criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s policy offering as too bland was ‘nonsense’.
More than 5,000 dead and 10,000 missing in flood-hit eastern Libya
"How much death and destruction will it take for world leaders to take climate change seriously?", Jeremy Corbyn has asked.
UK’s aid reputation in tatters after cuts and merger, watchdog warns
The Government added to external pressures on the development programme with political turbulence, budget reductions and Brexit, a report said.
UK recession fears grow as economy contracts
Gross domestic product contracted by 0.5% in July, according to the Office for National Statistics.