End of the line for rail fare rip-off? Transport Secretary Grant Shapps plans to trial a system of ‘flexible’ season tickets with discounts for part-time workers Transport Secretary Shapps will announce plans to trial ‘flexible’ season tickets Will offer discounts to part-time workers who travel three or four days per week …
Read More »
Part-time commuters will be able to buy flexible season tickets under a trial aimed at modernising rail fares to make them reflect 21st century working patterns. Passengers who do not travel on trains every day of the week will be able to buy season tickets covering only part of the …
Read More »
Humorous paintings of the Home Guard that were censored during the war have come to light and are going on sale. The light-hearted works were produced by artist Gilbert Spencer, who was too old to enlist during the Second World War and so joined the Home Guard in the Lake …
Read More »
Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott’s privately-educated son, 28, is charged with 11 offences including exposing himself and attacks on police and NHS staff James Abbott-Thompson appeared at Thames Magistrates Court on Tuesday Charged with 11 new offences including 9 assaults – most on police and medics He also faces count …
Read More »
Humanity risks irreparably damaging the Earth with climate change, Prince William warned last night. His dramatic intervention came as Britain recorded its hottest December day and unprecedented wildfires tore across drought-stricken Australia. William said the Earth was at a ‘tipping point’ and humans had just ten years to save the …
Read More »
And so ends another quiet year in politics… 🙃 I ended 2018 by describing it as a year that ‘delivered some of the strangest, most bizarre, comical and concerning political moments of recent history.’ I think that maybe, just maybe, 2019 might have topped that. Ok, fair, we didn’t see the UK …
Read More »
23 ambulances queue outside overstretched A&E department at same hospital where a patient died after waiting in one for an hour Enormous jam was second in a matter of days at Worcestershire Royal Hospital One former soldier compared the hospital to one in a war zone like Afghanistan Last Monday …
Read More »
Tens of thousands of workers have lost up to £10billion of savings in Government-sanctioned pension scams. Army veterans, police officers, firemen, paramedics, care workers and teachers were among those fleeced under an almost decade-long loophole. Most agreed to transfer their nest eggs to the rogue schemes because they were enrolled …
Read More »
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent their first Christmas with baby Archie in a $14.1 million waterfront mansion owned by a mystery multi-millionaire, DailyMail.com can reveal. The royal family and the Duchess of Sussex’s mother Doria Ragland enjoyed time in one of the most idyllic spots on Vancouver Island. Their …
Read More »
Royal Marines chiefs spark fury by offering £10,000 ‘golden hello’ payments to former Commandos to rejoin Former junior Marines who held rank of Marine or Lance Corporal will get bonus This taxable £10,000 will be paid in installments over four years if they return Serving officers said bonuses should be offered …
Read More »