As the government attempts to encourage businesses to change their working practices over the duration of the summer’s Olympic Games to help ease congestion on the public transport system, thousands of civil servants are planning to come to work on bikes this week, or work from home. As well as disruption expected to transport, there [...]

A request by the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association that drivers be permitted to push fares up during this summer’s Olympic Games by 22 per cent has been denied. Transport for London said that it had rejected the proposal because the majority of taxi drivers said that they did not want the initiative. However, TfL said [...]

Caribbean tourism is being damaged by the high cost of travelling to the region from the UK. Over the past half-decade there has been a 16 per cent drop in the number of people stepping off a plane from the UK. One of the reasons for this is the Air Passenger Duty added on to [...]

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a travel warning to all Brits planning to visit Nigeria after 178 people were killed in recent attacks by terrorists. Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group, was responsible for the devastation at the end of last week in Kano, a city in the north of the country. [...]

A group of foreign tourists visiting Ethiopia have been attacked by gunmen from Eritrea, according to reports on Ethiopian Television. The attack took place on Monday in the Afar region which is in the north of the country, and five people have been killed. Although the nationality of the victims is still to be confirmed, [...]

An increase of fines for fare dodgers on London’s transport network has been delayed because notices informing passengers of the hikes failed to go up on time. The increase to £80 from £50 was supposed to kick in on 2 January, at the same time as fares went up by an average of 5.6 per [...]

Commuters returning to work yesterday had to contend with 100mph winds and heavy rains as severe storms hit many parts of the UK. The bad weather claimed the lives of two people. A man, working on a tanker in the English Channel, died from injuries sustained after a wave struck the vessel. Another died after [...]

Ken Livingstone, Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London, has attacked the hike in ticket prices on the London Underground, buses, Overground, boats, Docklands Light Railway and trams by starting a leaflet campaign. He said that the hike of an average 5.6 per cent in the cost of tickets was too steep, and had been delivered [...]

As people across the UK prepare to return to work, the Met Office is warning that it could be a chilly start to the year as a storm brings with it heavy rain and strong winds. A severe weather warning has been issued for parts of the country. The heaviest showers are likely to be [...]

Figures published by the Department for Transport suggest that more cyclists die on the UK’s roads during times of recession than when the economy is more buoyant. The statistics show that during three of the last four recessions the number of cyclists being killed has gone up as more people decide to save the money [...]