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‘We were taped together on truck floor. Would this end with the click of the executioner’s rifle?’: Freed British hostage, 59, recalls how his captors tormented him with death sentence threats… even forcing him to record a goodbye message to his daug…
LONDON: Faith leaders in the UK have warned that violent clashes between groups of Hindus and Muslims could spread across the country after a flare up of tensions in the Staffordshire town of Smethwick.
It comes after 47 people were arrested over …
Rail freight has another UK first. Traditional Welsh slate aggregate is being transported by rail to Luton, just north of London, in a significant modal shift. The development is a joint initiative between the infrastructure agency Network Rail, constr…
The Llandudno Junction freight yard in Wales is back in use following extensive renovation work.
The yard, which had been unused for several years, has undergone track repairs, points refurbishment and removal of vegetation in order to enable trains to…
A few weeks ago, a new rail freight flow opened up in North Wales when GB Railfreight transported a train of Welsh slate aggregate from Llandudno Junction to Luton in Bedfordshire.
The freight flow has been made possible through a joint initiative betw…
London is to get another airport with GBP500 million pounds (USD591 million) in funding approved for the redevelopment by 2025 of the closed Manston airport in Kent as a national passenger and airfreight hub to alleviate the overcrowded London airport …
One of the biggest truck launches in the past few years came when DAF unveiled its new XF, XG and XG+ trucks in June 2021. As the first to take advantage of new EU regulations on truck lengths and widths, DAF’s designers took full advantage to create t…
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From transport to zoos: how UK services coped in the sweltering heatTrain services were cut and some schools closed, while water firms experienced ‘unprecedented demanded’ as Britain tried to stay cool
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Flights at two airports were halted over melting runways and a section of railway in London buckled today as the heatwave continued to roast the UK, while previous record high temperatures were broken in Wales.
Temperatures in Hawarden in Flintshire, n…