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Discussion of rationing with port officials prompts furious response from transport companies
Motorists and cyclists are increasingly outraged by state of the country’s roads
Contest is one of a series of local polls on May 2 that will be scrutinised ahead of general election expected this year
The Labour leader said on Thursday he cannot commit to reversing Rishi Sunak’s cut to the northern leg of HS2
Tradespeople with polluting vehicles will be able to claim back cost of driving in expanded low emissions zone
London mayor seeks funds to help pay for car scrappage scheme amid push to expand capital’s clean air zone
...Philip Georgiadis and Jim Pickard’s excellent write-up is here....
Pressure mounts on ministers to increase wages of health workers amid latest walkout by ambulance staff
Threat comes ahead of another week of industrial action by nurses, ambulance drivers and rail workers
PCS union dispute threatens to disrupt international travel over Christmas holiday season
Nurses, ambulance crews, immigration officers, postal staff and rail workers are due to walk out in the coming days
NHS leaders seek to protect some services from industrial action that also affects N Ireland
...Additional reporting by Bethan Staton, Philip Georgiadis and Sarah Neville in London...
...Additional reporting by Philip Georgiadis...
...Some water companies in the south have already imposed hosepipe bans, and environment secretary George Eustice called on others to implement urgent restrictions....
...By Daniel Thomas, Philip Georgiadis, Peter Campbell, Abby Wallace, Owen Walker, George Hammond, Sylvia Pfeifer and Jonathan Eley...
...It has also cancelled a number of road projects, as Jim Pickard, Philip Georgiadis and Jen Williams report....
...FT Reporting team: Peter Foster, Jim Pickard, Philip Georgiadis, Camilla Hodgson, Bethan Staton, Sarah Neville, Nathalie Thomas, Gill Plimmer and George Hammond...
...Host Sebastian Payne, the FT’s Whitehall editor, discusses these results — and the resignation of Tory party chair Oliver Dowden — with political editor George Parker and UK chief political commentator Robert...
...Belgium’s transport minister George Gilkinet has also demanded changes to the system, warning that running ghost flights risk undermining the EU’s ambitious emissions reduction goals....
...Reporting by Peter Foster, Chris Giles, Delphine Strauss, Sarah Neville, Bethan Staton, William Wallis, Philip Georgiadis, Jane Croft, John Paul Rathbone and Clive Cookson...
...But the age of most of Britain’s rail network makes the cost of weatherproofing all the track prohibitive and will mean some difficult decisions would be needed, according to George Davies, director of sustainable...
...Reporting by Daniel Thomas, Laura Hughes, Arash Massoudi, Sylvia Pfeifer, Kate Beioley, Stephen Morris and Philip Georgiadis...
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