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Union says its members at LNER will stay off work every weekend from 1 September to 10 November

Aslef train drivers announce 22 days of strike action on east coast mainline

Louise Haigh says she hopes three-year pay deal offered to train drivers will resolve strikes

Labour ‘putting rail passengers first’, says minister as she blames Tories for prolonging strikes – as it happened

The Scottish government says it has been left with "no choice" following cuts by the UK Chancellor.

Scotland scraps universal winter fuel payments for pensioners

The Independent

Scotland’s Deputy First Minister has claimed the “disrespectful and damaging” actions of the UK Government mean a new benefit to help with the cost of fuel bills cannot be paid to all pensioners.Ministers at Holyrood had initially hoped the pension age winter heating payment – which is being introduced in Scotland to replace the UK’s winter fuel payment – would be a universal benefit.But after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the UK payment will no longer be made to everyone above state pension age, the Scottish Government said it has “no choice” but to do the same.Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville...

Forbes hits out at UK Government as winter fuel payments limited in Scotland

Train drivers at London North Eastern Railway (LNER) are set to strike every weekend in September, October and two in November, union bosses have announced. Aslef, which represents train drivers, said the walkouts at LNER were due to a breakdown in industrial relations and agreements. The fresh strike action is...

LNER train drivers to stage fresh weekend strikes

A court hears Paul and Dean Mathews made £136,000 through their illegal refunds scheme.

Father and son jailed for steam iron returns scam

The wife of a Tory councillor could face 18 months in prison on charges of stirring up racial hatred when far-right violence swept the country.Lucy Connolly was refused bail and will appear at Northampton Crown Court accused of writing tweets calling for attacks on asylum seekers.Wearing a pink jumper while sat in police custody, Ms Connolly said “yes” when asked by the Nottingham Magistrates’ Court if she understood.Posted on X, fomerly Twitter, she wrote: “set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b*******” on the day of a stabbing in Southport that left three young children dead.District Judge...

Tory councillor’s wife Lucy Connolly could face 18 months on racial hatred charges

A police officer has appeared in court accused of murdering a pregnant woman in Ohio. Ta'Kiya Young, 21, was around 25 weeks pregnant when she was shot last August. Her unborn daughter also died. On Wednesday, a judge set bond at $250,000 (£194,866) for Connor Grubb, the accused Blendon Township...

US police officer charged with murdering pregnant woman

Christopher Taggart and Rhys McDonald were tracked down by police after the posts were spotted.

Pair who posted race hate messages on Facebook jailed

A former Colorado county election official was found guilty on Monday of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 presidential election. A jury found former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a Republican, guilty on seven out of 10 counts in the election interference case. Peters has become well known among...

Ex-county clerk found guilty of election interference

Two men are arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug following the discovery.

Drugs arrests after woman found dead

The families of two pilots who died in a motorway crash have described how both men loved life – and revealed that one of them had been married for just three months.Relatives of Matt Greenhalgh, 28, and Jamie Fernandes, 24, paid heartfelt tributes to them after the pair died when their taxi was in an accident on the M62 in Cheshire just over two weeks ago.The Ryanair pilot and senior first officer had been on their way to Liverpool John Lennon airport when the car was caught in a crash with two lorries near St Helens.Both died at the scene, and the taxi...

Ryanair pilots killed in motorway crash loved life and adventures, say devastated families in tributes

The approval comes after local cabbies warned they could struggle with the influx of new drivers.

Council approves Uber licence to operate in town

A police officer has been filmed kicking and stamping on the head of a man lying on the ground at Manchester Airport. The uniformed male officer is seen holding a Taser over the man, who is lying face down, before striking him twice while other officers shout at onlookers to stay back in a video shared widely online.

Police filmed stamping on man's head at airport

The Standard

A 75-year-old pensioner was punched twice in the face after asking a fellow passenger to stop smoking on board an Elizabeth Line service.Detectives at the British Transport Police said the victim challenged a man who was smoking on an Elizabeth Line service from London to Twyford shortly before 11.45pm on July 8.Smoking and vaping is banned on TfL services and in TfL stations.The man then threatened the victim and then punched him twice in the face as he left the service at Maidenhead.The victim sustained a black eye and a cut to his eyebrow in the attack.Police believe the man...

Man punched pensioner twice in the face after he was asked to stop smoking on Elizabeth Line train

Police say the incident took place in the New Walk area of York in the early hours of this morning.

Man arrested on suspicion of rape

Train delays caused by signal failures have cost passengers almost one million minutes since the 2018-19 financial year.Passengers have lost 988,419 minutes, according to Freedom of Information data provided by Network Rail.The Lib Dems, who revealed the stats, are now calling for a freeze on rail fares in response to poor service.So far this financial year, there have been more than a thousand signal failures on journeys and commuters have wasted nearly 40,000 minutes waiting, the data shows.Passengers were delayed by almost 190,000 minutes because of faulty signals in the last financial year.Lib Dem transport spokesperson, Wera Hobhouse MP said:...

Calls to freeze rail fares as passengers lose almost one million minutes to signal failure

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L.A. TACO has identified the police officer seen in a viral video sucker-punching a detained man named Alexander Mitchell in Watts over the weekend as Los Angeles Police Department Officer (LAPD) Joshua Sportiello.

LAPD Officer Identified After Punching Detained Man In Face In Watts On Video

A man who died following an altercation has now been named by police. Suffolk Police was called to reports of an assault on the Felixstowe seafront promenade by Undercliff Road West on Saturday at 21:20 BST. The next day they were called to a property in Carr Road where where...

Man, 25, found dead in property named by police

It says it had been waiting on a delivery.

Water park finally opens after new pump arrives

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We want same pay deal as drivers, says RMT boss

The rail workers' union wants the same terms as a three-year pay deal offered to striking...

We want same pay deal as drivers, says RMT boss

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