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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has the raised possibility of bi-annual tests, but will repair bills go up instead?

Boris Johnson warned not to undermine health and safety amid proposals to relax regulations for childcare and MOT tests

Policies include reviewing nursery ratios of staff to children and extending MOT validity to two years

The idea would save drivers just £27.43 a year for a standard car - at a time when millions of Brits face a £693 annual hike to their energy bills

Scheduled departures are up 521 per cent compared to the 2021 early May bank holiday and just 22 per cent lower than pre-pandemic levels

P&O Ferries sacked almost 800 employees last month and brought in cheaper agency workers, arguing the move was to help keep the multi-billion business afloat

One agency worker emailed a union complaining about a ferry in Dover.

Overall, the UK has received 107,200 applications from Ukrainian refugees

Perhaps the best thing that can be said about the “Great British Rail Sale” is that, finally, something has arrived that has been subject to very long delays: an admission from the Government that rail fares in this country are way too high. Beyond that, though, I’m struggling.

“If it was going to have any meaningful impact on fares then the Treasury wouldn’t have okay’d it."

In a newly released video Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced a new government policy slashing train fares, but not everyone was impressed by the promotional clip