The boss of scandal-hit train firm Avanti’s parent company has been awarded a £1m share bonus while passengers suffer chaos.
Travellers on the West Coast main line battled a stripped-back timetable this week - and some had to scale a spiked fence at Oxenholme after leaving a delayed train on Tuesday.
Yet FirstGroup chief executive Graham Sutherland was given 972,590 shares on Thursday under the firm’s long-term incentive plan.