Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Grant Shapps

Scots warned of travel chaos during Queen's Jubilee bank holiday weekend

There have been queues and queues building at airports while motoring firms predict that around 19 million drivers could take to the roads throughout the long weekend.

Daily Record

Families in tears and dream holidays cancelled as cabin crew hand in notices in week of airport chaos

According to travel expert Simon Calder we won't see the end of these delays anytime soon

Wales Online

Bank holiday road delays threaten to compound UK’s travel woes

Jubilee getaway congestion expected as Grant Shapps holds ‘productive’ meeting with airline companies

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Travel chaos hits UK airports again with 'disgusting' queues stretching 2,000 feet

Nearly 11,000 flights are scheduled to depart from UK airports over the next four days as Brits try to get away for the bumper bank holiday, with photos showing massive queues of passengers

Daily Mirror

Reasons behind Manchester Airport's delays, cancellations and huge queues

The airport has faced many problems over the month

Liverpool Echo

Traffic jams warning as 19 MILLION drivers set to pack roads over jubilee bank holiday weekend

City of London Police warned of road closures in the capital from Thursday evening until Friday afternoon due to the royals attending a service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral

Evening Standard

Mammoth queues and three-hour waits for baggage... so as 330,000 passengers prepare to fly through Manchester Airport this weekend, why's it still such a shambles?

"Despite government warnings, operators seriously oversold flights and holidays relative to their capacity to deliver."

Manchester Evening News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Do not repeat of travel chaos in summer, Grant Shapps warns airlines

More than 150 UK flights were cancelled on Wednesday– the eve of the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend

Evening Standard

UK agrees to launch full inquiry into drowning of 27 people in Channel

Lawyers for bereaved relatives say ‘serious failings’ in rescue operation may have contributed to deaths

The Guardian - UK

BA and easyJet cancel more than 150 flights as travel chaos continues

Passengers face more delays going into extended platinum jubilee bank holiday

The Guardian - UK

Flight chaos continues on eve of Platinum Jubilee bank holiday

More than 150 UK flights were cancelled on Wednesday and passengers who could travel were forced to wait in long queues at airports.

The Independent UK

UK airport hell as BA and easyJet cancel 155 flights and police called amid carnage

Scenes of "carnage" at Manchester, Heathrow, Stansted, Birmingham, Leeds Bradford and Bristol airports as BA and easyJet cancel 155 flights and passengers describe "crying their eyes out"

Daily Mirror

Shapps demands talks with airline and airport bosses as travel chaos continues

The transport secretary accused airlines and tour operators of "overselling flights and holidays" they could not deliver

Wales Online

Flight cancellations – live: easyJet and BA cancel more flights as airports brace for jubilee rush

As the platinum jubilee gets underway, the flight cancellations continue

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Travel chaos ‘could get worse’ this summer, union warns

Labour accuses government of being ‘missing in action’

Evening Standard

Grant Shapps demands meeting with airline bosses amid travel chaos

Airlines continued to axe flights on Tuesday with passengers forced to wait in long queues at airports including Manchester, Heathrow and Bristol

Evening Standard

Government terminates contract with P&O Ferries over mass sackings

The Home Office announced on Monday evening that the arrangement with the Border Force agency would come to an end immediately

The Guardian - UK

Home Office cancels Border Force contract with P&O Ferries after mass sackings

Agreement to provide contingency travel services terminated over layoffs of nearly 800 seafarers

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Rail: When are the train strikes planned?

In the forthcoming strikes by Network Rail signallers, barely one-fifth of trains are expected to run

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the future of rail: managed decline is no way forward

Editorial: The RMT union’s vote for strike action should prompt a rethink of a short-sighted cuts programme

Wales Online

PM ready to expose 'rip off' petrol station not passing down tax cuts

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has suggested a 'pump watch' name-and-shame scheme

The Guardian - UK

Rail staff are set for battle, but a post-Covid strike could run off track

The working-from-home revolution has altered the dynamics of industrial action on the transport network

Birmingham Post

Contractors appointed to controversial A303 Stonehenge tunnel scheme

The £1.7bn upgrade of the road between Amesbury and Berwick Down is still awaiting approval from the transport secretary

Manchester Evening News

All the lines affected as UK set to be hit by biggest rail strike in decades

Members of the RMT union backed strike action after staff 15 train operating companies and Network Rail - spanning the breadth of the UK - were balloted over pay, conditions and cutbacks

Daily Mirror

Sue Gray report exposes 'got away with it' booze brags and points blame at Boris Johnson

The long-awaited Boris Johnson party report has been published today after a four-month investigation by Sue Gray and the Met Police - with 37 pages and nine photos of the Prime Minister in Downing Street

1 … 58 59 60 61

People

Charlotte Johnson Wahl

11 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department for Transport

286 stories

Thameslink

242 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.