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UK ports should refuse access to Russian boats, says Transport Secretary

Grant Shapps has told all UK ports to refuse access to any vessel linked to Russia.

The Independent UK

Russian oil tanker 'not welcome' in Orkney, says UK Transport Minister

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he had written to all UK ports calling on them not to offer facilities to Russian-owned or controlled vessels and the local council confirmed a Russian tanker has cancelled a docking.

Daily Record

Russian vessels to be banned from British ports, says Grant Shapps

Transport secretary’s pledge comes with multiple oil tankers either docked or on their way to UK ports

The Guardian - UK

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Truss warns of ‘some economic hardship’ as she gives more detail of Russian sanctions – as it happened

Truss says officials ‘working through the night’ to draw up sanctions against oligarchs; Kwasi Kwarteng in Commons on economic crime bill

The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps blows almost £100k of public money on vanity photographer and video firm

Grant Shapps is hiring his own photographer - despite ministers defending Boris Johnson spending thousands on vanity snappers because they work 'across government'

Daily Mirror

UK bans Russian private jets from its airspace

British transport minister Grant Shapps said in a tweet on Friday that no Russian private jet can fly in UK airspace or touch down, effective immediately.

Reuters

Revealed: Full details of what TfL must do for its £200million bailout including looking at driverless trains

Transport for London must work towards introducing driverless trains on the Tube under the terms of its new £200m bail-out deal, it can be revealed.

Evening Standard

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UK flights ordered to avoid Ukraine airspace

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he made the decision ‘following the horrific events overnight’.

The Independent UK

TfL’s £4.5bn bailout extended to Friday amid crisis talks with government

Grant Shapps and Sadiq Khan remain at loggerheads over deal to finance London transport network

The Guardian - UK

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps pushing to scrap passenger locator forms for Easter

The form is set to be scrapped in April, reports state

Evening Standard

Passenger Locator Form for travel could be shelved by Easter, says Grant Shapps

Transport minister is lobbying for complex form to be axed

The Independent UK

The government’s Flickr photo-diary is a spoof unto itself

Michael Gove stands alone on a windswept pier. Grant Shapps laughs uproariously on a bench. The feed of Tory politicians doing things is a meme-maker’s dream

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of thousands of Brits are jetting off on holiday for half-term

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the scrapping of testing ahead of half term comes as 'good news' for families

Wales Online

Arrival testing ends for fully vaccinated travellers to the UK

‘A landmark moment for international travel,’ says transport secretary Grant Shapps

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Evening Standard

TfL rejects new Covid bailout over ‘unacceptable’ terms imposed for extra cash

TfL is seeking a long-term deal to keep Tube and bus services running following a huge drop in income

Wales Online

Competition to find new ‘home of the railways’ launched

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the new central headquarters of Great British Railways must be "well connected" and outside of London

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps tests positive for coronavirus

The Transport Secretary is the second Cabinet minister to do so in five days.

Wales Online

Grant Shapps second Cabinet minister to test positive for Covid

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced she was isolating on Monday

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The Independent UK

Grant Shapps promises train passengers ‘big improvements’ in timetables

Hundreds of daily services were axed in December and January due to staff shortages caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant.

The Guardian - AU

Turkey reports daily record of 111,157 new cases – as it happened

Turkish daily death toll highest in four months as cases surge; UK health agency says number of cases each day could be rising

The Independent UK

Labour: Shapps ‘sold bus transformation, but is delivering managed decline’

Grant Shapps described the full amount of money being spent on buses as a ‘record never achieved before by any Government as far as I can see’.

The Independent UK

Ex-transport ministers call on Grant Shapps to act on vehicle safety

New vehicle safety standards become mandatory in the European Union and Northern Ireland from July but will not automatically be used in Britain.

Nottingham Post

More passengers to be eligible for flight delay compensation under new post-Brexit plans

Travellers on flights more than one hour late will receive payouts under the proposed changes

Evening Standard

Travel: Passengers to receive compensation for one-hour flight delays

Travellers will receive compensation for flights delayed by more than an hour under new plans unveiled by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

The Independent UK

Flight compensation overhaul for domestic airline passengers

‘We’re making the most of our Brexit dividend,’ transport secretary Grant Shapps says

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