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Grayling hopes Brexit brings new apprenticeships in train
Still haunted by the Bombardier debacle in Derby, the Department for Transport seems eager to build rail skills at homeThe Bombardier train factory teetered on the brink of closure in 2011, when it lost a key contract for British carriages to Germany. The Derby site survived, but the debate over protecting high-value domestic jobs from foreign competition rumbles on, especially with Brexit on the way.Memories of the Bombardier furore are still fresh at the Department for Transport, it seems, because the latest ministerial incumbent appears determined to ensure that manufacturing work stays wit...
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Restricting the flow of skilled workers will damage Government hopes of the UK becoming a world leader in a key industry of the future, according to a report by Oxford University.
Thousands of rail passengers complain about tardy trains ... now they have to wait SIX MONTHS for compensation payments
Arriva Trains Wales take on extra staff to deal with around 9,000 complaints from fed-up customers
Sunday, 19 March 2017
The Guardian
- Grayling hopes Brexit brings new apprenticeships in trainStill haunted by the Bombardier debacle in Derby, the Department for Transport seems eager to build rail skills at homeThe Bombardier train factory teetered on the brink of closure in 2011, when it lost a key contract for British carriages to Germany. The Derby site survived, but the debate over protecting high-value domestic jobs from foreign competition rumbles on, especially with Brexit on the way.Memories of the Bombardier furore are still fresh at the Department for Transport, it seems, because the latest ministerial incumbent appears determined to ensure that manufacturing work stays wit...
The Huffington Post
- Warwick Avenue Tube Station Attack: Police Appeal For WitnessesAn Austrian tourist was repeatedly punched in the face after she rejected the advances of a man who followed her from a London Tube station, leaving her with injuries so severe she needed surgery. The 60-year-old was attacked by a man in his late 20s after he approached her outside Warwick Avenue station in west London. The Metropolitan Police said the victim “politely” rejected his attempts to “chat her up” but the man followed her as she walked along Warwick Avenue towards Formosa Street, near Paddington, at around 8pm on Friday March 10. He grabbed her from behind a...
Mail Online
- Man who attacked woman on London tube SPARED extradition Marek Dabrowski, 32, was convicted of viciously assaulting two women on a Bakerloo Line train in March 2015. He punched and kicked one and dragged another around the train 'by her hair'.
Daily Post (North Wales)
- Thousands of rail passengers complain about tardy trains ... now they have to wait SIX MONTHS for compensation paymentsArriva Trains Wales take on extra staff to deal with around 9,000 complaints from fed-up customers
London Evening Standard
- London-bound train evacuated after 'passenger pulls knife and threatens conductor'A train to London was evacuated after a passenger reportedly pulled a knife and threatened a conductor.
Northern Echo
- Labour unveils plans for North-East transport and industry renaissance SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell has outlined Labour party investment plans to pump �1.4bn into transport links in the North-East, and to revitalise the steel industry through new technologies.
East Anglian Daily Times
- Greater Anglia offers the ultimate rail enthusiast’s dream for Comic ReliefEver fancied riding shotgun beside the driver on an express train in East Anglia? Ever dreamed of getting behind the controls of a modern electric train? Well now’s your chance (sort of) while raising money for Comic Relief.
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- Time-lapse video reveals how 23-tonne flood channels were squeezed beneath the railway AN INCREDIBLE time-lapse video reveals how two massive underground tunnels weighing 23 tonnes were squeezed under the railway in Oxford in just four days.
- Steam locomotive The Whitby Flyer makes its way through Teesside The flyer, carrying ten coaches of passengers, passed through Middlesbrough on its way to Whitby
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