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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dave Hill

London Underground's new boss

Dan Milmo:

Mike Brown, chief operating officer at Heathrow, will return to LU as managing director a year after he quit as chief operating officer of the organisation to join airports operator BAA, which owns Heathrow.

The moves comes as a dispute with Tube Lines, the contractor responsible for upgrading a quarter of the network, enters a critical phase with the two sides billions of pounds apart in a row over how much the work programme should cost.

For more about Brown and the forbidding in-tray that awaits him, read on.

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