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Transport Secretary says there is no ‘war on motorists’

Heidi Alexander insisted ‘no serious person’ is suggesting tradespeople should ‘swap their van for a bus’.

The Independent UK

Starmer promises ‘bold changes’ to rules over electric cars in response to Trump tariffs

Department for Transport officials said ‘flexibilities’ in electric vehicle targets will help carmakers transition away from petrol engines

The Independent UK

Minister gives go-ahead to Luton airport expansion despite advice to reject plan

Luton was the UK’s fifth busiest airport last year, with 16.9 million passengers travelling on 132,000 flights.

The Independent UK

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Luton airport allowed to double capacity after UK government overrules planners

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander grants consent to London’s fourth-biggest airport to allow potential 32m passengers a year

The Guardian - UK

Luton airport expansion given green light by Government despite advice to reject plan

Luton was the UK’s fifth busiest airport last year, with 16.9 million passengers travelling on 132,000 flights

Evening Standard

Search For Long-missing Flight MH370 Suspended: Malaysia Minister

The latest search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended, Kuala Lumpur's transport minister said, more than a decade after the plane went missing.

International Business Times

Millionaire businesswoman left abandoned on Tube platform by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

Sally Wynter has called for urgent safety review after no one came to her aid when she hit emergency button at busy central London station

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Rail renationalisation: Train firms 'will be told to cut cancellations to 2%' to tackle dire performance

Great British Railways to crack down on worst cancellation rate in a decade

Evening Standard

Lumo aims to treble London train services with routes to Manchester, Scotland and West Country

King’s Cross operator wants new services from Euston and Paddington

Evening Standard

Tesla Canceled From Canada's EV Rebates After Gaming The System

Tesla is America's electric car juggernaut; a domestic force that helped to push EV adoption all across the globe—something it managed to do by pushing boundaries (and sometimes buttons). Naturally, that means Tesla can find itself in hot water every now and then with regulatory bodies. Its latest upset? The…

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Families call for help to find loved ones after deadly 2021 Channel crossing

Zana Mamand Mohammed hopes the Cranston Inquiry will provide more information over his brother and others missing from the incident.

Evening Standard

Minister pledges to uncover causes of Heathrow and North Sea incidents

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said ‘no stone should be left unturned identifying the causes of the incidents’.

Evening Standard

Strike action over railway safety ‘necessary’, says Transport Secretary

Heidi Alexander also vowed the Government will take railways into public ownership ‘without any cost to the taxpayer’.

Evening Standard

Plans for £9bn Lower Thames Crossing backed by minister

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has approved a development consent order application by National Highways for the new 14.5-mile crossing.

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Lower Thames Crossing between gets go-ahead from Heidi Alexander to ease hellish jams and 'unlock growth'

Construction could start next year, with the new road expected to open in the early 2030s

Evening Standard

Pressure mounts on Heathrow boss as airlines threaten legal action over fire shutdown chaos

Warning of potential legal action comes as No10 and Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander decline to say they have confidence in Thomas Woldbye

Evening Standard

Ministers ‘monitoring’ how passengers looked after following Heathrow shutdown

A fire at the North Hyde electricity substation last week disrupted power supplies at the West London hub.

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PM demands accountability as he urges councils to ‘get on’ with fixing potholes

Councils will be required to publish annual progress reports or face having funding withheld.

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Is Heathrow back to normal now after flight cancellation chaos?

More than 1,000 flights were cancelled on Friday after a fire at an electrical substation caused a power cut

Evening Standard

Minister says she would have struggled to sleep if running Heathrow

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander made the comment following a report the airport’s chief executive went back to bed after the power outage began.

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‘We want answers’: Petition to save Ardrossan Harbour hits major milestone

Ministers have been urged to speed up talks over the future of Ardrossan Harbour with residents in the town and in Arran fearing for the future of…

The Independent UK

UK ‘can and must’ grow aviation while protecting the environment, minister says

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said she will ‘never accept’ that the issues compete against each other.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The London Question: Are London's buses getting more dangerous?

London’s transport commissioner, Andy Lord, was not having a good day. Appearing at City Hall for a question-and-answer session recently, he began in chipper mood, saying he was looking forward to a “momentous year” for Transport for London as it celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Evening Standard

Watch live as cargo ship 'expected to sink' as scale of damage in North Sea collision with tanker revealed

A burning cargo ship which crashed in the North Sea is expected to sink, Transport Minister minister Mike Kane has told MPs.

International Business Times

Thousands Stranded As WWII Bomb Paralyses Paris Train Station

The unearthing of a 500-kilogram World War II bomb near tracks outside Paris on Friday halted traffic and stranded thousands of passengers in one of the biggest rail disruptions in the French capital in years.

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