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Minister gives go-ahead to Luton airport expansion despite advice to reject plan

Luton was the UK’s fifth busiest airport last year, with 16.9 million passengers travelling on 132,000 flights.

The Independent UK

Luton airport allowed to double capacity after UK government overrules planners

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander grants consent to London’s fourth-biggest airport to allow potential 32m passengers a year

The Guardian - UK

Luton airport expansion given green light by Government despite advice to reject plan

Luton was the UK’s fifth busiest airport last year, with 16.9 million passengers travelling on 132,000 flights

Evening Standard

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Millionaire businesswoman left abandoned on Tube platform by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

Sally Wynter has called for urgent safety review after no one came to her aid when she hit emergency button at busy central London station

Evening Standard

Rail renationalisation: Train firms 'will be told to cut cancellations to 2%' to tackle dire performance

Great British Railways to crack down on worst cancellation rate in a decade

Evening Standard

Lumo aims to treble London train services with routes to Manchester, Scotland and West Country

King’s Cross operator wants new services from Euston and Paddington

Evening Standard

Minister pledges to uncover causes of Heathrow and North Sea incidents

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said ‘no stone should be left unturned identifying the causes of the incidents’.

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Strike action over railway safety ‘necessary’, says Transport Secretary

Heidi Alexander also vowed the Government will take railways into public ownership ‘without any cost to the taxpayer’.

Evening Standard

GMB Showdown: Susanna Reid Grills Stammering Labour Minister Into Public Apology

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander found herself in the hot seat on Good Morning Britain, as presenters Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid gave her a tough time.

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Counter terrorism police find 'no evidence' fire near Heathrow Airport was suspicious

Almost 300,000 passengers across more than 1,300 flights had their trips cancelled at Europe’s busiest airport

Evening Standard

Lower Thames Crossing plan for Essex and Kent approved by government

Heidi Alexander gives green light to controversial £9bn tunnel, Britain’s biggest single planned road-building project

The Guardian - UK

Plans for £9bn Lower Thames Crossing backed by minister

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has approved a development consent order application by National Highways for the new 14.5-mile crossing.

Evening Standard

‘If I want to go to a concert I’ll pay for it’: Minister heaps pressure on Reeves over Sabrina Carpenter tickets

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner defended the chancellor, saying it was ‘totally okay for Rachel to make that decision’

The Independent UK

Lower Thames Crossing between gets go-ahead from Heidi Alexander to ease hellish jams and 'unlock growth'

Construction could start next year, with the new road expected to open in the early 2030s

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'Not appropriate' to get free O2 tickets, says Labour minister as Rachel Reeves Sabrina Carpenter concert row grows

Greenwich and Woolwich MP Matthew Pennycook said he had never accepted a free ticket for the flagship music venue in east London

Evening Standard

Pressure mounts on Heathrow boss as airlines threaten legal action over fire shutdown chaos

Warning of potential legal action comes as No10 and Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander decline to say they have confidence in Thomas Woldbye

The Guardian - UK

Labour delight in welcome distraction of Heathrow crisis-not-really-a-crisis

Disruptive but not deadly closure that is not government’s fault is just the thing to ease the spring statement stress

Evening Standard

Ministers ‘monitoring’ how passengers looked after following Heathrow shutdown

A fire at the North Hyde electricity substation last week disrupted power supplies at the West London hub.

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The Independent UK

Watch live: Transport minister gives statement after Heathrow Airport shutdown chaos

Watch live as transport minister Heidi Alexander gives a statement on Monday (24 March) after a fire at a electricity substation in west London forced Heathrow Airport to close for several hours.

Evening Standard

PM demands accountability as he urges councils to ‘get on’ with fixing potholes

Councils will be required to publish annual progress reports or face having funding withheld.

Evening Standard

Starmer appears to back Reeves over Sabrina Carpenter freebie

Downing Street said the Prime Minister ‘supports all of his ministers making their own judgments’ over hospitality.

The Independent UK

Minister ‘too busy’ for concerts amid Reeves row over Sabrina Carpenter tickets

The chancellor has defended her decision to accept the freebie tickets as ‘the right thing to do’ because of her security arrangements

Evening Standard

PM ‘deeply concerned’ about Heathrow closure

Some 200,000 passengers were affected as the west London airport was closed for much of Friday after a fire at a nearby electricity substation.

The Guardian - UK

Heathrow fire: transport secretary says she’d ‘struggle to sleep’ after report airport boss went to bed amid crisis

Heidi Alexander declines to say she has confidence in Thomas Woldbye after airport chaos at the weekend

Evening Standard

Minister says she would have struggled to sleep if running Heathrow

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander made the comment following a report the airport’s chief executive went back to bed after the power outage began.

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