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Tube Death Comedy Upsets Drivers

Tube drivers are irked by a new film that takes a light-hearted look at one of the more harrowing aspects of working for London Underground: the “person under a train”, TfL-speak for a suicide. Members of the Aslef union plan to picket the premier and …

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Olympic Torch Relay In Pictures

One of the enthusiastic Olympic buses by Orhan. The Olympic Torch Relay is all over the news this morning for the wrong reasons as far as the organisers and host country are concerned. Was the police presence over egged or was security not tight enough? …

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Weekend Round-Up

This is what we have learned whilst you have been out buying Easter eggs whilst silently cursing the commerciality of it all: It’s been a weekend of protests and marches, ranging from the serious: a prayer vigil for Tibet and the Stop the War Coalition, …

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Protesters Scale Houses Of Parliament

Protesters have this morning scaled atop the roof of the Houses of Parliament in protest at the planned expansion of Heathrow Airport. Just days after a similar protest at the airport itself, the five activists, from airline campaign group Plane Stupid, gained access via a …

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Shepherd’s (am)Bush(ed)

Transport anarchy is threatening to break out in W12. TfL’s plan to close Shepherd’s Bush station on the Central Line in early February for escalator upgrade work has been met with a stentorian campaign by locals to keep it open. The protesters claim that the …