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London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest, should be expanded with the addition of a third and even a fourth runway, a cross-party panel of lawmakers said.
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Louise Ellman, who heads the U.K. Parliament’s Transport Committee, called on the government to delay signing a contract for FirstGroup Plc to run Britain’s premier express rail route instead of Virgin Trains so her committee can probe the deal.
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U.K. lawmakers will probe how far auto-insurance costs are being raised by whiplash claims now estimated by insurers at 1,500 a day.
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U.K. transport ministers were lied to and must take their share of the blame for the botched franchising process for the West Coast mainline rail route, lawmakers said.
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Britain’s insurers should abandon “sharp practices” driving up the cost of auto premiums and the government ought to make it harder for whiplash claims to succeed, according to a House of Commons committee.
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A new hub airport for London would need a subsidy from government funds of as much as 30 billion pounds ($48 billion), a report into the commercial viability of the plan found.
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On a cold January evening last year, Sandy Van Litsenborgh was driving home from work on an icy side street in Whitechapel , east London. Unable to pass an oncoming motorist because the street was too narrow, she reversed to let the car past and hit a Vauxhall Vectra parked behind her.
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The U.K. government must rule out using higher fares on the rail network to cut demand at peak times, a panel of lawmakers said, as commuters returned to work for the New Year faced with above-inflation fare rises.
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The U.K.’s National Audit Office should review the way the government awarded a contract to build trains for London’s Thameslink line, a panel of lawmakers said.
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Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan for a high-speed rail link connecting London to northern England won support from lawmakers after an inquiry into the 32 billion- pound ($51 billion) project.
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