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Taxi drivers face major changes under new licensing rules in a bid to improve safety

The proposed changes will introduce a national minimum standard for drivers

The Independent UK

Does Great British Railways really signal a new era for passengers?

Train Talk: ‘How can we feel confident that these plans will translate into more reliable train journeys and fares that are value for money?’

The Independent UK

The new plan which could see under-22s get free bus travel in England

The Transport Select Committee said it would improve young people’s access to ‘work and skills opportunities’

The Independent UK

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Tougher rules needed for utility firms digging up roads, MPs say

The Commons Transport Committee set out plans to stop roads being dug up multiple times.

Evening Standard

Free driving tests could help learners ditch L plates sooner, MP suggests

One free go at a driving test might encourage learners ‘to only go for it when they really thought that they were going to pass it’, MPs heard.

Evening Standard

How free driving tests could help motorists pass sooner

There is a growing backlog of learner drivers waiting to take their practical driving test

The Independent UK

Scottish Labour MPs set to rebel on UK welfare reform – see the full list

MORE than 100 Labour MPs have lined up to oppose the UK Government’s proposed changes to disability benefits ...

The National (Scotland)

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Sustainable aviation fuel not a ‘silver bullet’ to decarbonisation, warns MP

Labour MP Ruth Cadbury, who chairs the Transport Committee, urged the Government to ‘look beyond’ SAF in its mission to reduce carbon emissions.

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

Evening Standard

Disabled transport users treated like ‘second-class citizens’ in ‘national embarrassment’

A report by the Transport Select Committee found a ‘substantial gap’ between the rights of disabled transport users and their daily experience

The Independent UK

Heathrow expansion will not deprive regions of jobs and flights, say ministers

Mike Kane, whose portfolio includes aviation, said a third runway at the country’s biggest airport will boost productivity beyond London.

Evening Standard

Ed Miliband suggests Heathrow expansion may not go ahead if it breaches net zero targets

Ed Miliband looked visibly uncomfortable as he was grilled over how the expansion of Heathrow airport with a third runway was compatible with his carbon emission net zero targets

The Independent UK

Revealed: Just one in five prisons have enough riot officers in ‘scandalous’ shortage

Exclusive: Just 23 out of 109 prisons met their minimum ‘Tornado’ officer requirement, analysis shows

The Independent UK

Sunak failing on pledge to tackle prison overcrowding as less than half of promised pop-up cells built

Exclusive: Pop-up cells are not suitable for dangerous prisoners and can only be used in certain jails

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Trainee prison officers ‘encouraged to be more violent’ in sexist graduate scheme that sees a third drop out

Exclusive: Women hired as prison officers through a university graduate programme claim a boys’ club of male officers made their lives hell

The Guardian - UK

No toilets in 6,900 prison cells in England and Wales, minister reveals

Prisoners in 1,485 cells in 21 prisons have to request access to facilities by ringing a bell and some use buckets

The Independent UK

Hounslow fire: Three children among five dead in deadly west London house blaze

Police keeping ‘open mind’ as to cause of deadly fire

The Independent UK

Homes proposal a ‘bid to line Duke of Northumberland’s pockets’, inquiry told

Northumberland Estates says its plans would help provide an income stream for conservation works to Syon House.

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Concerns over price rises for period products despite removal of tampon tax

Campaigners say saving is not being passed on by retailers after double digit price rise

The Independent UK

UK-India trade agreement is ‘about the deal and not the dates’, minister says

Trade minister Nigel Huddleston told the Commons ‘we will not tie our hands in terms of setting an arbitrary deadline’.

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