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Tougher driving test could help ease traffic congestion

15.09.11
A tougher driving test and more use of real-time traffic information could help curb road congestion, according to MPs... more

MPs call for overhaul of 'out of date' taxi laws

19.07.11
Rules on where taxis and minicabs can operate need 'urgent and wholesale reform', a report by MPs says... more

MPs support moves to introduce zero drink drive limit

02.12.10
Legal drink-drive limit should be lowered to an 'effectively zero' level but such a reduction is 'too great a step at this stage', a report by MPs said... more

Minister faces grilling after rail ticket price bombshell

24.11.10
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond is facing questions from MPs a day after train companies announced soaring rail fares... more

MP distances herself from son who sells meow meow

26.03.10
An MP whose businessman son allegedly sells the legal high mephedrone says “it has nothing to do with her", a source says... more

Tube Lines delays 'unacceptable' to commuters, says damning report

26.03.10
Tube passengers are enduring “unacceptable” disruption to services following the Government’s “flawed” part-privatisation of the Underground, a report by MPs says... more

British Airways fight to halt 'illegal' cabin crew strike

15.12.09
Airline bosses launch legal challenge to halt 12-day walkout amid claims that the ballot by the Unite union was invalid... more

Only three MPs voted in favour of Heathrow third runway

07.12.09
Government accused of a 'stitch-up' over Heathrow as a row erupted about a report from MPs which backs a third runway... more

MPs attack train firms for ‘backdoor’ fare rises

27.07.09
Rail companies attacked for taking passengers for granted and fleecing commuters with fare increases... more

Must try harder, George. The City's not so easily taken in

27.07.09
A very senior banker asked me twice: "What do you think of George Osborne?" It was the way the question was asked and the repetition that gave me pause... more

Network Rail's '£6million man' under fire over huge bonuses for directors

22.07.09
Rail boss Iain Coucher labelled 'The Six Million Pound Man' as protesters angry at the huge bonuses received by Network Rail directors gathered outside the company's annual meeting... more

Third runway ‘must reduce circling planes at Heathrow’

10.07.09
A major cut in the “excessive” stacking of aircraft in the skies around Heathrow was demanded in return for a third runway... more

Never mind the bollocks… Mayor cleared after swearing at MPs

21.05.09
Boris Johnson will be cleared of “buffoonery” by the City Hall standards committee after saying “bollocks” to a panel of MPs... more

MPs tell Boris to sit down as he tries to leave snow inquiry

02.04.09
Boris Johnson was told to sit down by an MP and answer "one more question" as he tried to escape from a transport committee meeting hearing... more

Travel chiefs 'were caught out by snow'

02.03.09
Transport chiefs received a severe rebuke in a report over their lack of preparedness for last month's snow storms which left millions of commuters stranded... more

MPs grill rail bosses over fare rises

05.02.09
Rail chiefs faced a barrage of criticism after appearing before MPs to be questioned about inflation-busting fare rises... more

Rail bosses face grilling over Euston failures

08.01.09
Network Rail bosses are in the dock over a string of failures which have brought Britain's busiest railway to its knees... more

Fares up and rail delays for return to work

05.01.09
Commuters were faced with inflation-busting fare increases as they returned to work - and to a rail network hit by problems... more

MPs may launch an inquiry into ticket rises

05.01.09
Rail firms faced a fresh parliamentary inquiry into "enormous" increases in rail fares... more

Gordon Brown urged to ban third runway at Heathrow after drop in flights

03.11.08
Gordon Brown has been urged to reconsider plans for a third runway at Heathrow after new figures showed a fall in flights this winter... more

Commuters face 10 per cent rise in fares

20.10.08
Commuters' hopes that they might be spared a rise in train fares of up to 10 per cent on London services next year have been dashed... more


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