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P&O Ferries boss admits firm broke law - and claims they warned Tories last YEAR

Chief Executive Peter Hebbelthwaite claimed the firm warned Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last year that P&O would be "needing to make changes to our business this year”

Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries claim they didn’t break key law - after change signed off by Chris Grayling

Former Transport Secretary Chris ‘failing’ Grayling signed off a legal change in 2018 that meant ships sacking staff had to notify the government of the country where they’re registered. P&O Ferries’ shops are registered in the Bahamas, Cyprus and Bermuda

Daily Mirror

Talking Point: Should P&O pay back £10m furlough money after firing 800 staff?

The news that P&O was planning to lay off 800 staff on Thursday came as a shock to many, although perhaps not to those in the Department for Transport after the PM’s spokesman admitted that the government had been informed of the move on Wednesday (despite initially denying they knew…

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Rules on parking on pavements as Government 'actively considering' full ban across England

The Department for Transport considering a ban of the practice altogether in England

Chronicle Live

Cuts to bus services avoided after Department for Transport unveils £150m new funding

The funding will keep services running despite a reduction of passengers due to the coronavirus pandemic

Wales Online

Storm Franklin travel chaos forces Department for Transport's Leeds staff to stay at home

The base was set up to make big government departments less London-centric

Leeds Live

Government urged to keep emergency bus funding to avoid service cuts

The Department for Transport’s pandemic-related support for the sector is due to expire when the financial year ends on April 5.

Wales Online

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Scotland Office agrees to raise issue of direct ferry links to Europe with UK Department for Transport

ALBA Party MPs Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill met today (January 25) with the Scotland Office Minister Iain Stewart MP in a renewed push to re-establish direct ferry links from Scotland to mainland Europe.

Glasgow Live

First trains, now buses: Why a new roll-back on funding for the north could be the death knell for 'levelling up'

The Department for Transport rerouted some of the money earmarked for long-term transport reform to an emergency bus fund during the pandemic

Manchester Evening News

Chris Boardman inspired to improve travel after daughter unable to ride safely

The Olympic cycling gold medallist has been appointed interim commissioner of the new Active Travel England (ATE) by the Department for Transport.

The Independent UK

‘The next announcement will arrive shortly’: just how annoying are train messages?

As the Department for Transport promises an end to banal train announcements, Simon Calder takes a one-hour trip to keep count

The Independent UK

‘Endless torrent’ of train announcements in England to be silenced - Grant Shapps

The Department for Transport (DfT) said messages which “add unnecessary noise and disruption to journeys” will be cut

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