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

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Tuesday June 21, 2022.

Manchester Evening News

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

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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

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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

Daily Mirror

'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'

Daily Mirror

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.

Evening Standard

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"

Daily Mirror

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps dismisses calls to act over rail strikes

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

Chronicle Live

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

Evening Standard

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.

The Independent UK

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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

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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’

Evening Standard

Tube and rail strikes: Passengers and commuter belt MPs slam ‘cruel’ and ‘selfish’ walkouts

Calls grows to cancel Tube and rail strikes set to cripple London

Wales Online

AA president: Waive road charges for drivers during rail strike action

Plea to lift tolls for parking and congestion, while unnecessary road works should all be suspended during train and Underground action

Daily Record

Dunblane locals pen letter in hopes to improve train service after 'temporary timetable' introduced

The letter aims to put pressure on ministers to resolve the current timetable issues.

Daily Mirror

Holidays in jeopardy as Eurostar cancels 41 trains next week due to UK rail strikes

Some train services connecting London with Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris have been scrapped next week due to rail strikes called for by the RMT and other unions

Daily Mirror

Grant Shapps warns striking rail workers they could lose their jobs in hardline speech

The Transport Secretary said rail workers could 'strike themselves out of a job' as he warned he could 'cut the cloth' of railways after the walkout. He also warned he could tear up laws on agency staff this summer and said passengers will get automatic compensation

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps: ‘Rail strikes designed to inflict damage at worst possible time’

Half of Britain’s rail lines will be closed during strikes on June 21, 23 and 25.

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