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UK flights ordered to avoid Ukraine airspace

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he made the decision ‘following the horrific events overnight’.

The Independent UK

TfL’s £4.5bn bailout extended to Friday amid crisis talks with government

Grant Shapps and Sadiq Khan remain at loggerheads over deal to finance London transport network

The Guardian - UK

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps pushing to scrap passenger locator forms for Easter

The form is set to be scrapped in April, reports state

Evening Standard

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Passenger Locator Form for travel could be shelved by Easter, says Grant Shapps

Transport minister is lobbying for complex form to be axed

The Independent UK

The government’s Flickr photo-diary is a spoof unto itself

Michael Gove stands alone on a windswept pier. Grant Shapps laughs uproariously on a bench. The feed of Tory politicians doing things is a meme-maker’s dream

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of thousands of Brits are jetting off on holiday for half-term

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the scrapping of testing ahead of half term comes as 'good news' for families

Wales Online

Arrival testing ends for fully vaccinated travellers to the UK

‘A landmark moment for international travel,’ says transport secretary Grant Shapps

The Independent UK

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TfL rejects new Covid bailout over ‘unacceptable’ terms imposed for extra cash

TfL is seeking a long-term deal to keep Tube and bus services running following a huge drop in income

Evening Standard

Competition to find new ‘home of the railways’ launched

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the new central headquarters of Great British Railways must be "well connected" and outside of London

Wales Online

Grant Shapps tests positive for coronavirus

The Transport Secretary is the second Cabinet minister to do so in five days.

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps second Cabinet minister to test positive for Covid

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced she was isolating on Monday

Wales Online

Grant Shapps promises train passengers ‘big improvements’ in timetables

Hundreds of daily services were axed in December and January due to staff shortages caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant.

The Independent UK

Turkey reports daily record of 111,157 new cases – as it happened

Turkish daily death toll highest in four months as cases surge; UK health agency says number of cases each day could be rising

The Guardian - AU

Labour: Shapps ‘sold bus transformation, but is delivering managed decline’

Grant Shapps described the full amount of money being spent on buses as a ‘record never achieved before by any Government as far as I can see’.

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Ex-transport ministers call on Grant Shapps to act on vehicle safety

New vehicle safety standards become mandatory in the European Union and Northern Ireland from July but will not automatically be used in Britain.

Nottingham Post

More passengers to be eligible for flight delay compensation under new post-Brexit plans

Travellers on flights more than one hour late will receive payouts under the proposed changes

Evening Standard

Travel: Passengers to receive compensation for one-hour flight delays

Travellers will receive compensation for flights delayed by more than an hour under new plans unveiled by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

The Independent UK

Flight compensation overhaul for domestic airline passengers

‘We’re making the most of our Brexit dividend,’ transport secretary Grant Shapps says

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The Independent UK

Transport Secretary claims climate protest action ‘doesn’t make sense’

Grant Shapps says many environmental protesters are ‘anarchists’ who ‘just want to find a basis upon which to take extremist action’.

Manchester Evening News

'Playing with people's lives' - Northern transport body's 120 staff face uncertain future as Government 'winds down' funding

Transport for the North employs staff in Manchester and Leeds but the body's funding for the next three years is yet to be confirmed

The Independent UK

‘Scrap passenger locator form’: Gatwick demands end to Covid travel form

‘It is there for a critical reason’ – transport secretary Grant Shapps

The Guardian - UK

Solid or tepid? The Tory ministers still defending Boris Johnson

A core group of cabinet ministers are continuing to back PM – some more vehemently than others

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps promises to ‘set Britons free’ with easing of travel rules

‘Covid restrictions on travel should last not a minute longer than is necessary,’ says transport secretary

Daily Mirror

GMB's Susanna Reid grills Grant Shapps on following Covid rules when 'PM doesn't'

Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid to ask the Transport Secretary why the British public should follow the guidance after new allegations surfaced that officials gathered for Boris Johnson's birthday bash in June 2020

Wales Online

Met Police now investigating Downing Street parties

No 10 has conceded staff “gathered briefly” in the Cabinet Room on the afternoon of June 19 2020

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