Major upgrades of the Piccadilly, Northern and Jubilee lines are under threat after a key official told London Underground to cut back on work or stump up the extra cash... more
Mayor Boris Johnson is set to take legal action as a £1.3 billion funding gap threatens the upgrade of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines... more
Tube passengers face second threat of strike action as union leaders give Tube Lines until Thursday to guarantee there will be no job cuts or changes to working conditions... more
Upgrades to Jubilee and Northern lines under threat as private firm carrying out work loses claim to be paid an extra £327million of public funds... more
A day when London has to cope with the chaos caused by a Tube strike is a good day to take a hard look at a report slipped out by the Government late last Friday. When most people in Whitehall were preoccupied with other things, the National Audit Office report into the collapse of Metronet, one of two companies given 30-year contracts to modernise the Tube under the public finance initiative escaped the scrutiny it deserved ... more
Billions of pounds were cut from spending on the railways just 24 hours after the Government said it planned to make "best use" of the national transport networks... more
The independent arbiter has ruled that Tube Lines wanted £2.1bn more for its new upgrades than the work was worth. Is it time to face facts and ditch the PPP? ... more
Up to five of those involved with the al Qaeda airline bomb plotters remain at large after the jury failed to convict them on all the charges brought in a £10 million trial, raising questions about how these proceedings should be conducted in future... more
Multi-billion plans to improve train services for London commuters were put "at risk" when Network Rail's budget was slashed by more than £3 billion... more
Hundreds of thousands of rail passengers face major disruption over the May Day bank holiday weekend with the closure of large sections of the mainline network... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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