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Qataris are billed £100m for Candys

18.11.09
The already high stakes in the battle between the former partners in the £3 billion redevelopment of the Chelsea Barracks site are set to get even higher ... more

End of the scandal of waste at Waterloo

12.11.09
The Government has known for at least five years that when Eurostar moved its operations to St Pancras the terminal at Waterloo would be available for domestic use... more

Taxpayers hit with £13million bill for empty Eurostar terminal

12.11.09
Taxpayers are to be hit with a bill of up to £13million to keep Waterloo's international terminal in mothballs, the Standard reveals... more

The Eurostar chief who is spoiling for a fight

30.09.09
Richard Brown is getting the Channel train service ready for what may prove to be an almighty battle between his company, the French and the Germans... more

Passengers flee as 25,000-volt cable snaps at St Pancras

24.09.09
Passengers disembarking a Eurostar train were forced to flee in terror as a live overhead cable fell inches from them... more

Delayed: platforms for Waterloo commuters will not arrive until 2014

10.09.09
Commuters will have to wait until 2014 before the former Eurostar platforms at Waterloo station are adapted for suburban trains... more

Recession-chic fashion... from hot air balloons

28.08.09
London designer has revived wartime 'austerity chic' by creating a clothing range from hot air balloons and Eurostar uniforms... more

All change at Eurostar as it prepares to face competition

14.08.09
Eurostar is set to appoint a Frenchman to replace the current British chief executive Richard Brown... more

Squeeze on City travel derails target at Eurostar

15.07.09
Eurostar is going to miss its much-vaunted target of carrying 10 million passengers a year by 2010 ... more

Eurostar in Olympic talks

22.05.09
Eurostar is in talks to become the official rail company of the London Olympics in a deal worth up to £20 million, the Evening Standard reveals ... more

Brussels: a Euro star

11.05.09
If you thought Brussels was just a dank den of bureaucracy heaving with suits on expenses, think again. Hettie Harvey has a vintage time in the Belgian capital...... more

Eurostar hit by 250,000 plunge in passengers

16.04.09
Despite its swanky new home at St Pancras and the promise of record times to Paris, Eurostar admitted that it carried 250,000 fewer passengers in the first three months of this year, a fall of 11.5% back to 1.92 million... more

Eurostar fleet gets a 'Ferrari' makeover

09.04.09
The interiors of Eurostar trains are to be revamped by an Italian car designer... more

I can see the stable from here... horse sculpture for Eurostar terminal

10.02.09
A 50-metre horse by the Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has won a competition for a new landmark sculpture for Kent... more

Signals at red for the brief Eurostar boom

13.01.09
Transport: The boom on Eurostar since the high-speed train’s move to St Pancras has come to a juddering halt... more

Strike threat to Eurostar in run-up to Christmas

13.11.08
Eurostar staff are threatening to strike just before Christmas - the service's busiest time of the year... more

Chunnel blaze repairs will take until February

15.10.08
The fire-damaged Channel Tunnel will not be fully operational again until at least February - with the repair already escalating towards the £500million mark... more

£17m blaze toll on Eurotunnel

08.10.08
Transport: The shutdown of the Channel Tunnel during September due to a fire on a vehicle shuttle train has cost Eurotunnel £17 million in lost revenues... more

Eurostar 'reduced' until after Christmas

29.09.08
Eurostar services through the Channel Tunnel will not return to normal until after Christmas, senior sources said... more

Tunnel ablaze for 17 hours as travel plans of 15,000 wrecked

11.09.08
Almost a half-mile stretch of the Channel Tunnel has been severely damaged by a fire which raged for 17 hours ... more

London to Paris by rail in two hours

10.09.08
London to Paris train times are to be slashed to under two hours as major airlines look to compete with Eurostar... more

Rail bosses reveal radical revamp plan for Waterloo

28.07.08
Waterloo station is set to be transformed, with the concourse sunk to the level of the Eurostar terminal... more

Eurostar gains pace after station switch

16.07.08
Midlanders, Northerners and Scots are continuing to fuel growth at Eurostar following the cross-Channel passenger train service's move to St Pancras from Waterloo... more

£50m to convert Waterloo's Eurostar platforms

11.06.08
The Government is facing a £50 million bill to convert the mothballed Waterloo Eurostar station into a commuter terminal... more

Steaming Eurostar hails age of the train

14.04.08
Train operator reported staggering 21% surge in passengers in first three months of 2008... more

Paris bistros for lunch

12.12.07
Thanks to Eurostar, it's easily possible to get to France for lunch. Fay Maschler discovers two local bistros not to be missed.... more

Drowning in text

21.11.07
The Breaking The Rules exhibition examines the immersion of the European avant-garde in print between 1900-1937.... more

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