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Russian oil tanker diverted from Wales while another remains docked here

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has asked ports to block access to Russian “flagged, registered, owned, controlled, chartered or operated vessels”

Wales Online

Russian ships banned from UK as Government first to pass new law

Grant Shapps wrote to all UK ports urging them to refuse access to Russian boat

Wales Online

Russian-owned ship will not dock in Orkney

MSPs also urge divestment of all Russian holdings from Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme

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Russian-owned ship will not dock in Orkney – council chief

The vessel had been due to dock on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

UK ports should refuse access to Russian boats, says Transport Secretary

Grant Shapps has told all UK ports to refuse access to any vessel linked to Russia.

The Independent UK

Russian oil tanker 'not welcome' in Orkney, says UK Transport Minister

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he had written to all UK ports calling on them not to offer facilities to Russian-owned or controlled vessels and the local council confirmed a Russian tanker has cancelled a docking.

Daily Record

Russian vessels to be banned from British ports, says Grant Shapps

Transport secretary’s pledge comes with multiple oil tankers either docked or on their way to UK ports

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Truss warns of ‘some economic hardship’ as she gives more detail of Russian sanctions – as it happened

Truss says officials ‘working through the night’ to draw up sanctions against oligarchs; Kwasi Kwarteng in Commons on economic crime bill

The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps blows almost £100k of public money on vanity photographer and video firm

Grant Shapps is hiring his own photographer - despite ministers defending Boris Johnson spending thousands on vanity snappers because they work 'across government'

Daily Mirror

UK bans Russian private jets from its airspace

British transport minister Grant Shapps said in a tweet on Friday that no Russian private jet can fly in UK airspace or touch down, effective immediately.

Reuters

Revealed: Full details of what TfL must do for its £200million bailout including looking at driverless trains

Transport for London must work towards introducing driverless trains on the Tube under the terms of its new £200m bail-out deal, it can be revealed.

Evening Standard

UK flights ordered to avoid Ukraine airspace

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he made the decision ‘following the horrific events overnight’.

The Independent UK

TfL’s £4.5bn bailout extended to Friday amid crisis talks with government

Grant Shapps and Sadiq Khan remain at loggerheads over deal to finance London transport network

The Guardian - UK

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps pushing to scrap passenger locator forms for Easter

The form is set to be scrapped in April, reports state

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Passenger Locator Form for travel could be shelved by Easter, says Grant Shapps

Transport minister is lobbying for complex form to be axed

The Guardian - UK

The government’s Flickr photo-diary is a spoof unto itself

Michael Gove stands alone on a windswept pier. Grant Shapps laughs uproariously on a bench. The feed of Tory politicians doing things is a meme-maker’s dream

Wales Online

Hundreds of thousands of Brits are jetting off on holiday for half-term

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the scrapping of testing ahead of half term comes as 'good news' for families

The Independent UK

Arrival testing ends for fully vaccinated travellers to the UK

‘A landmark moment for international travel,’ says transport secretary Grant Shapps

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TfL rejects new Covid bailout over ‘unacceptable’ terms imposed for extra cash

TfL is seeking a long-term deal to keep Tube and bus services running following a huge drop in income

Wales Online

Competition to find new ‘home of the railways’ launched

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the new central headquarters of Great British Railways must be "well connected" and outside of London

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps tests positive for coronavirus

The Transport Secretary is the second Cabinet minister to do so in five days.

Wales Online

Grant Shapps second Cabinet minister to test positive for Covid

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced she was isolating on Monday

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps promises train passengers ‘big improvements’ in timetables

Hundreds of daily services were axed in December and January due to staff shortages caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant.

The Guardian - AU

Turkey reports daily record of 111,157 new cases – as it happened

Turkish daily death toll highest in four months as cases surge; UK health agency says number of cases each day could be rising

The Independent UK

Labour: Shapps ‘sold bus transformation, but is delivering managed decline’

Grant Shapps described the full amount of money being spent on buses as a ‘record never achieved before by any Government as far as I can see’.

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