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Rail strike will go ahead on Thursday as RMT accuses Grant Shapps of ‘wrecking’ negotiations

Third and final strike of week is planned for Saturday

The Independent UK

Johnson and Starmer clash over biggest rail strikes in a generation

Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer fought a blame game over the industrial unrest.

The Independent UK

Government denies petrol pump policy 'on the hoof'

The Transport Minister says officials had been working on how to provide Kiwis relief at the petrol pump for a relatively short amount of time, but denies it was just 24 hours.

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Rail chief earns 20 TIMES wage of train guard as more than half of Brits back strikes

Network Rail chief Andrew Haines earned an annual salary of nearly £600,000 last year with many train guards earning £30,000 as those on the picket line say strike action was a last resort

Daily Mirror

NSW public transport fares to rise

The cost of catching light rail, metros, trains, ferries and buses in NSW will increase by an average of three per cent next month.

AAP

Hopewell, govt trade threats

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob has downplayed a threat by Hopewell (Thailand) Co to bring a criminal lawsuit against the government for failing to pay several billion baht in compensation over a cancelled transport project about two decades ago.

Bangkok Post

The Mancunian Way: Sex work is 'last option' for women struggling with cost of living

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Strike? What strike? Top Tories attend ball with Abba tribute night before walkout

Conservative ministers were on Tuesday criticised for attending a lavish summer ball the night before Britain was hit by the rail strikes.

Evening Standard

Minister blasts cost of underground Piccadilly HS2 station as 'crazy' after shelving plans - but London will still get one

The Manchester Evening News is calling on the Government not botch one of the most important transport projects ever to be built in the north of England

Manchester Evening News

Why rail workers are on strike and what the RMT has been offered to settle dispute

The dispute is about pay, jobs and conditions, including a row over a below-inflation pay increase, safety and redundancies

Chronicle Live

Boris Johnson warns public to brace for more transport chaos in bitter rail dispute

The Prime Minister said a package of modernising reforms is vital for the railways as he signalled that the industrial unrest could continue

The Independent UK

Kay Burley snaps at Grant Shapps for not meeting RMT ahead of rail strikes

Thousands of RMT union workers have walked out today over a pay and working conditions dispute with the Network Rail, which is owned by the UK Government.

Daily Record

Grant Shapps says train strikes are 'a stunt by the unions who could settle this today'

The Transport Secretary has urged them to return to negotiations

Wales Online

Train strikes kick off summer of travel misery - with Grant Shapps 'doing nothing'

Flights cancelled, railways grind to a halt, petrol prices rise again... and STILL Transport Secretary Shapps refuses to do anything as a last-ditch bid to avert the three-day national action by train staff fails

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'By refusing to negotiate rail strike Government has all but admitted it wanted this'

'The Transport Secretary argued it was a matter for the union and employers, conveniently forgetting that as the person ultimately in charge of Network Rail he is the employer'

Evening Standard

Grant Shapps calls rail strike ‘callous’ as it impacts his daughter’s exam day

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has branded the rail strikes “callous” as he said his daughter’s exam day would be affected.

Daily Mirror

Tories to bring in law that lets agency staff do jobs of striking workers

Labour accused the government of adopting the P&O Ferries "playbook" and said replacing staff "cannot and must not be an option"

Chronicle Live

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps dismisses calls to act over rail strikes

The Transport Secretary was accused of 'washing his hands' of the dispute.

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Evening Standard

Tube strike is on as TfL warns Londoners to avoid travelling until Wednesday mid-morning

The industrial action, which starts at midnight, will be the largest transport strikes in more than 30 years with half of Britain’s train lines shut down

The Independent UK

Last-ditch talks fail to resolve rail row with strikes to go ahead

Thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at Network Rail and 13 train operators will walk out on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Manchester Evening News

The Northern Agenda: North's latest grooming bombshell

Oldham follows in the footsteps of Rotherham, Rochdale and Keighley

Evening Standard

Strike-ageddon — the Tube, the unions and the biggest rail walk-out in 30 years

As London braces itself for an onslaught of industrial action across the transport network, what’s at stake, what is the Mayor doing — and will it continue for months? Christian Wolmar reports

Evening Standard

UK at risk of further strikes as teachers and NHS staff issue warning

It comes as more than 40,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union are set to cripple the UK’s transport network by staging 24-hour walkouts on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

Evening Standard

Grant Shapps accuses union of ‘punishing millions of innocent people’ with strikes next week

The Transport Secretary alleged the RMT had ‘ignored’ requests to negotiate a deal ahead of widespread industrial action

Evening Standard

Ministers slammed after admitting not meeting RMT over strikes for a month

They have been accused of ‘twiddling their thumbs whilst innocent passengers suffer’

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