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BP To Inject £1B In UK Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

BP plc (NYSE:BP) has announced a £1 billion investment for the U.K. electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure over ten (10) years. The investment, which will see a tripling of charging points by 2030, was unveiled during an official visit by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to BP pulse's UK headquarters in Milton Keynes. It…

Benzinga

Grant Shapps takes in family of Ukrainian refugees

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday he had arranged to take in a family of Ukrainian refugees who contacted him on Facebook - a six-year-old boy, his mother, grandmother and the family dog, Max.

Evening Standard

P&O Ferries: Transport Secretary calls for Chief Executive to resign after "knowingly breaking the law"

Chief Executive of P&O said new crews are being paid below the UK's minimum wage apart from on domestic routes

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Boris Johnson tells petrol retailers to ‘pass on’ fuel duty cut

Motorists have complained that some retailers are dragging their feet in making the price change

Evening Standard

P&O Ferries boss called on to quit by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps after 'knowingly breaking the law'

The chief executive admitted that the new crews are being paid below the UK's minimum wage apart from on domestic routes

Birmingham Post

Boris Johnson calls on P&O Ferries boss to resign over 'brazen' comments about breaking law

Boris Johnson has backed Transport Secretary Grant Shapps' call for chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite to quit over “breathtaking” comments about the company “knowingly breaking the law”

Daily Mirror

P&O DID deliberately break law over shameful mass sackings as CEO in shameful admission

P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite admits the firm deliberately broke the law to sack 800 staff as ferry fatcat says he’d do it again and also admits replacements’ low pay

Daily Mirror

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P&O Ferries boss reveals new crew paid just £5.50 an hour as he admits law was broken

The firm replaced 800 seafarers with cheaper agency staff last week

Manchester Evening News

P&O Ferries boss admits firm broke law as he apologies - but says he would make same decision to sack 800 staff again

Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite claimed the sacking of 800 people was necessary or P&O would have been unable to continue operating

Chronicle Live

P&O admits breaking the law over sackings

Chief executive is due to be grilled by MSPs next week, after a first round today in Westminster

Insider UK

P&O admits breaking law over sackings

The company replaced its crews with cheaper agency workers last week.

The Independent UK

Transport for London offers free travel to Ukrainian refugees

Transport for London (TfL) is offering Ukrainian refugees free travel on all of its services.

Evening Standard

P&O admits paying new ferry workers below UK minimum wage

Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite said the average pay of the new crew is only £5.15 per hour.

The Independent UK

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

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Daily Record

Using your mobile phone in the car will be illegal tomorrow and could risk £200

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that the changes will make it 'easier' for authorities to prosecute drivers for using their mobile phone when behind the wheel of a vehicle.

Bangkok Post

Toll-gate system expands

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said he expects the toll-gate payment system called M-Flow to soon attract six million user vehicles as it expands.

Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries: Company bosses summoned to appear before MPs after 'shameful' mass sacking of UK crew

P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite has been called to appear at a joint hearing of the Business, Energy and Industry Strategy Committee and Transport Committee

Daily Mirror

P&O agency crew that replaced sacked staff 'may do 144 round trips without time off'

The Rail, Maritime and Transport workers’ union has highlighted alleged 'profound safety issues' while a briefing for MPs, seen by the Mirror, says 'an eight-week contract would be up to 144 round trips before they leave the ship to take a period of rest'

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The Hindu

Women cannot travel for free in all buses, says Transport Minister

‘Loss-making transport corporation will not allow such a measure’

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps heralds seizure of Russian billionaire’s superyacht by Gibraltar

The Transport Secretary said he is doing “all I can to cripple Russia’s aviation and shipping industries” following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Daily Record

Sacked P&O ferry crews replaced by 'Indian seafarers paid £1.80 an hour', union claims

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transportunion, said it amounted to “shocking exploitation”.

Liverpool Echo

Tory ministers accused of 'endorsing thuggish fire and rehire tactics of P&O'

It came as Tory MPs abstained in a vote that would pave the way to end P&O-style fire and rehire practices

The Independent UK

Safety checks for P&O vessels amid claims new crews earning below £2 an hour

Sacked P&O workers watched in the House of Commons public gallery.

The Hindu

Pavagada bus accident: Transport officials to be suspended

Transport Minister B. Sriramulu on Monday told the Legislative Assembly that the Transport Department officials would be suspended from services for dereliction of duty for their failure to check overcrowding of the private bus involved in an accident that claimed the lives of six persons in Pavagada.

Bangkok Post

Six locations eyed for 'Land Bridge'

Six potential locations for a Southern Land Bridge connecting the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman coasts will be proposed to the Transport Ministry this week, according to the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning (OTP).

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