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Grant Shapps’ bike licence plates proposal ‘a strange and pointless idea’

Transport secretary’s apparent hint at number plates for cycling met with confusion and criticism

The Guardian - UK

New law could be passed setting speed limit for cyclists

Grant Shapps also wants to introduce a "death by dangerous cycling” law

Manchester Evening News

Cyclists could need licence plates and to observe speed limits in new law shake-up

Cyclists could be hit by 20mph speed limits and wear identifiable markers under a new proposed laws.

Daily Record

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Cyclists could be hit with penalty points under new scheme

Bicycle users may also need licence plates

Liverpool Echo

Cyclists may need number plates under new laws

A review is also looking at fines for cycles who don't keep to the speed limit or run a red light

Wales Online

Cyclists could need number plates under tough new road rules

Bike riders would have to observe 20mph speed limits and face harsher punishments if they kill pedestrians

Wales Online

Cyclists may need number plates and insurance under plans for new road laws

Cyclists may be subjected to new road laws, that government officials are keen to bring in, that would require them to have insurance and number plates, it is reported

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Grant Shapps considering creating 20mph speed limits for cyclists

The Highway Code and Road Traffic Act speeding limits only apply to motor vehicles and their drivers.

The Independent UK

Cyclists could be fined for breaking speed limits as minister demands road law review

Grant Shapps says some two-wheelers ‘seem to think the laws of the road don’t apply to them’

The Independent UK

Cyclists could be made to have registration plates and insurance – report

Whitehall review is also said to suggest cycling speed limits, along with licence penalty points and fines

The Guardian - UK

Bus price cap at £2 would 'make cost of living more affordable' say passengers

'This would inject some certainty into an unpredictable economic landscape'

Nottingham Post

All the rail strikes in Scotland this week - dates and services affected

Members of the RMT union who work for Network Rail are walking out over a pay-related dispute

Daily Record

Bristol's cynical reaction to Government's plan for £2 bus fare cap

"That's if they turn up..."

Bristol Post

Labour demands action over Avanti West Coast reduced train service

Transport secretary urged to press for restoration of full timetable or strip operator of contract after 12 cancellations on Monday

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Daily Mirror

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

Wales Online

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

The Independent UK

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.

Manchester Evening News

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

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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 Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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

Liverpool Echo

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

Evening Standard

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…

Chronicle Live

The Northern Agenda: The last house on Holcombe Close

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

Evening Standard

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”.

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