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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Train firm chief is awarded £1million share bonus in week of railway chaos

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.

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