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The next phase of the Hope Valley Railway Upgrade[1] has begun, as Network Rail engineers set about installing renovations that will enable passengers to benefit from a more reliable railway service.
The latest round of updates will see the installatio…
Last May, Lutfur Rahman was elected mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets. His local borough party, Aspire, also won control of Tower Hamlets Council. One key plank of Rahman’s manifesto was that he would scrap the borough’s unpopular Low Traff…
Great Western Railway has announced the closure of a major Oxfordshire railway line on Tuesday (April 4) due to urgent repairs. Due to urgent repairs to a bridge between Didcot Parkway and Oxford, the line has been closed.
A spokesperson for GWR has sa…
A false alarm[1] bomb threat on the 3rd of April caused The Bodleian Library, Clarendon Building, and Hertford College to be evacuated.
The bomb threat was reported by Thames Valley Police earlier on the morning of the 3rd of April. At 10:43AM, Thames …
The debate over traffic reduction measures is generating a lot of heat and some dubious politics, so Elaine Graham-Leigh examines some of the issues
The debate over the planned extension of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the outer boroughs …
The River Thames has been slammed as “empty, soulless” and “underused” by a South London councillor who claims the capital’s flagship waterway is in need of more piers and fast. Conservative councillor Mark Justin, speaking at a Wandsworth Council plan…
Nearly one in five people in the UK suffer from ‘misophonia’, a strong negative reaction to common sounds usually made by other people, researchers have found.
A King’s College London and Oxford University study estimated that 18.4% of the general popu…
The mayor further compared this “campaign of opposition” to similar tactics in recent years which he said are meant to “divide and mislead”, such as the “dismissal of science” and the “peddling of misinformation”.
“What we don’t want to do is amplify s…
During the 1980s, Graeme Hogg was driving at opposing wingers in the red of Manchester United – nowadays he is driving HGV vehicles in the luminous green of high-vis jackets.
It is not the glamorous end footballers in this day and age may be accustomed…
A leading palletised freight distributor has made significant improvements in vehicle management and compliance control since using TruTac’s products.
Oxford Carriers, based in Witney, Oxfordshire, specialise in next-day UK pallet deliveries, general…