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Security checks on new airport bag handlers fast-tracked to save summer getaways

It is to try and mitigate the staff shortages in the airline industry amid holiday chaos

Bristol Post

Staff security checks sped up to address 'disaster movie' scenes in airports

“People have made huge sacrifices during the pandemic and deserve their flights to run on time, without complications and without being cancelled at the last minute."

Manchester Evening News

Security checks on new airport bag handlers fast tracked to save summer getaways

More scrapped flights are set to be announced within days and Ryanair and easyJet crews are striking in Spain and Europe this weekend

Daily Mirror

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Airport staff security checks expedited amid 'disaster movie' scenes

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps attempts to alleviate flight disruption this summer to avert mayhem experienced over the Easter and Platinum Jubilee holiday periods

Wales Online

Airport staff security checks accelerated in bid to end ‘disaster movie’ scenes

Staffing shortages have caused chaos in airports as holidaymakers face huge queues

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps cuts bag handler security check waiting times to ease airport chaos

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says counter-terror clearance is now down from 20 days in March to 10 days now

Daily Mirror

Sadiq Khan requests ‘urgent’ meeting with Grant Shapps over TFL funding

Sadiq Khan has requested an “urgent” meeting with the Transport Secretary over the future of TfL’s funding.

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Government tells aviation bosses to end flight chaos ahead of summer holidays

Aviation chiefs have been told to end flight chaos by giving holidaymakers “certainty” ahead of the summer break.

Evening Standard

Grant Shapps slammed as 22 measures to fix airport chaos have ALL been announced before

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has been criticised as the 22 measures he announced to tackle summer travel chaos and support the industry had already been announced before

Daily Mirror

Union boss Mick Lynch criticises ‘exorbitant’ wages of TfL bosses

The Standard has revealed that almost 600 TfL executives earned more than £100,000 last year

Evening Standard

Revealed: Which Tube stations have faced the longest closures?

Staff absences, customer incidents and signalling failures have led to London’s Tube stations being closed for a total of 76 days over the past three years - new figures have found.

Evening Standard

Government unveils plan to ease flight disruption as Heathrow passengers endure day of chaos

Transport Secretary in bid to help families avert summer holiday misery

Chronicle Live

UK Government unveils plan to tackle flight disruption

Flight demand is set to surge again as schools in Scotland break up for summer this week

Insider UK

Grant Shapps slams rail unions as he unveils £1bn east coast digital investment

The Transport Secretary claimed the Government is investing in modernising the railways ‘despite the best efforts of unions’.

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The Independent UK

Labour accuses Gove of acting like ‘Grant Shapps tribute act’ by ignoring looming storm for councils

Local authorities warn of £3.6bn black hole due to soaring costs

Evening Standard

TfL funding: Sadiq Khan back on the buses, and he’s not a happy man

Sadiq Khan often talks to journalists, but rarely holds press conferences. So it was something of a surprise to be invited at short notice to West Ham bus garage last Thursday, where the Mayor was to give an update on TfL’s bid for a fifth government bailout.

The Independent UK

Train strikes - live: Lynch asks government to ‘tone down rhetoric’ and ‘settle dispute’

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Evening Standard

Union chief hints more strikes to come this year as he accuses Grant Shapps of ‘talking nonsense’

Union leaders have called for a pay rise in line with inflation which is set to rise to 11 per cent later this year

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Daily Mirror

Grant Shapps 'misled public' over claim he has no role in train strike

TUC Boss Frances O’Grady said he was pulling the strings of the 15 train operators because contracts mean they are unable to negotiate pay, conditions and pensions of 40,000 striking RMT workers without his approval

The Independent UK

RMT boss accuses Transport Secretary of ‘talking nonsense’ in Twitter thread

Grant Shapps’ thread described ‘outdated working practices’ in the railway industry as members of the RMT walked out for the third time this week

Liverpool Echo

Large rally takes place outside Lime Street station on final day of bitter rail strike

Ricky Tomlinson and local Labour MPs were among those taking part

The Guardian - UK

Striking RMT union’s Mick Lynch tells Grant Shapps to ‘get on with his job’

Union boss says transport secretary should ‘tone down the rhetoric’ and make effort to solve rail strikes

The National (Scotland)

Mick Lynch hits out at UK leaders raised on 'diet of Latin and Greek'

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has said there is a “disconnect” with UK leaders raised on a diet of Latin and Greek – and gave his frank…

Chronicle Live

Jeremy Corbyn joins rail staff at RMT train strike picket at Newcastle's Central Station

The former Labour leader called for an inflation pay rise and job security for train and rail staff, who he points out worked throughout Covid

The Guardian - UK

Train services cut as RMT rail strike enters third day

Rail firms ask people not to travel as 40,000 union members strike in dispute over pay and conditions

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