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Bus fares could be limited to £2 a journey - if services aren't slashed first

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps today said he was putting forward plans to bring in an upper limit for fares outside of London for 12 months - but there are widespread fears that hundreds of routes could be scrapped in the near future

Daily Mirror

Bus fares could be capped at £2 a journey for a year in England to help with cost of living crisis

Proposals outlined by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps

Wales Online

Plan to cap bus fares at £2 per journey

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the measure would provide ‘concrete help’ to the most vulnerable people.

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The Northern Agenda: The £4.8bn fund that could make dreams come true in Bolton, Bradford, Blackburn and North Shields

This is what Northern leaders want from round two of the Levelling Up Fund

Manchester Evening News

Grant Shapps in 'secret communication' over Inverness to Moscow private flight

The Tory minister discussed sensitive information linked to a controversial flight which left Inverness headed to Moscow just days after the Ukraine…

The National (Scotland)

The Guardian view on cheap train travel: a lesson from Germany

Editorial: While the British rail industry is subjected to managed decline post-Covid, other countries are taking a more imaginative approach

The Guardian - UK

Train strikes will be £120million hammer blow to London

Warning that stoppages will hit economy as London bears brunt in four days of travel woe

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Avanti rail cuts slammed as 'completely unacceptable' and 'an outrage'

Leading city region politicians call for urgent government action after rail operator slashed timetables and suspended ticket sales

Liverpool Echo

Sadiq Khan And Andy Burnham Join Forces To Criticise Avanti West Coast Service Cuts

London mayor Sadiq Khan and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham have criticised Avanti West Coast for drastically reducing its timetables, branding the decision “completely unacceptable”.In a letter to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, the regional leaders said the train operator’s recent timetable cuts were a “national outrage”.Avanti West Coast slashed its…

Evening Standard

The Northern Agenda: The last house on Holcombe Close

The Wilson family are all that stand in the way of a £250m regeneration project

Chronicle Live

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham join forces to criticise Avanti West Coast service cuts

London mayor Sadiq Khan and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham have criticised Avanti West Coast for drastically reducing its timetables, branding the decision “completely unacceptable”.

Evening Standard

'Frankly a national outrage': Greater Manchester leaders and London Mayor hit out at decision to cut trains to and from capital

People are unable to currently buy tickets for Manchester to London while the timetable is being slashed.

Manchester Evening News

Row breaks out over rail company slashing number of London trains

A furious row has broken out between unions and a rail operator that has slashed its train timetable and suspended ticket sales blaming "severe staff shortages".

Evening Standard

Motorists could drive lorries without extra test to battle HGV shortage

Under the current rules, drivers must pass five tests to become a lorry or bus driver.

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Liverpool Echo

Car drivers 'to be allowed to drive HGVs' without taking a test

It's hoped a change in the law will help ease the UK's HGV driver shortage

Daily Mirror

Youngsters could drive trucks without a test in major government shake-up

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has launched a call for evidence in a bid to make it easier for youngsters to kickstart a career in logistics, whilst making the most of 'post-Brexit freedoms'.

Wales Online

Car drivers won't need test to drive lorries to help HGV driver shortage

Motorists could be allowed to drive larger vehicles without needing to sit a formal test

Nottingham Post

Car drivers could be allowed to drive lorries without a test to help HGV driver shortage

The Government is considering the change

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The Guardian - UK

Cyclists in UK who kill pedestrians could be prosecuted same as motorists

Grant Shapps says the proposed law will be the ‘cycling equivalent of death by dangerous driving’ and aims to tackle a ‘selfish minority’

The Independent UK

Cyclists who kill face longer jail terms with new law to crack down on ‘legal loophole’

Cyclists who kill pedestrians can only be jailed for two years under current law

Evening Standard

Cyclists to be prosecuted like drivers for pedestrian deaths under new law

The move will close a legal loophole that means cyclists who kill pedestrians can only be jailed for two years, Grant Shapps said

Daily Mirror

Cyclists who kill face tougher jail terms after crackdown on 'legal loophole'

A "death by dangerous cycling" law is being planned by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who has reportedly said that current legislation is "archaic" and a legal loophole needs to be closed

The Independent UK

Shapps vows to create ‘death by dangerous cycling law’

The move will close a legal loophole that means cyclists who kill pedestrians can only be jailed for two years, Grant Shapps said.

Evening Standard

What has the government said about driverless trains on the London Tube?

The transport secretary compared the tube to Europe’s metro systems.

Glasgow Live

Car drivers to be allowed to drive lorry without test to help HGV driver shortage

Motorists could be allowed to drive HGV without needing to sit a formal test in a bid to tackle the UK's continuing lorry driver shortage with Grant Shapps set to open a consultation

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