The London Daily News

Mayor Boris Johnson has told bungling Tube chiefs to get their act together after a week of hell on London Underground.

He was reported to be furious during face-to-face meetings with Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy and LU managing director Mike Brown.

Thousands of passengers had to be led through ...

News Desk

Boris Johnson the Mayor of London has promised to have driverless tube trains within the next ten years. The current Mayor of London who is up for re-election in May said he would never again buy tube trains with drivers if ...

Travel Desk

Travellers will have free access to Wi-Fi at 80 of London’s 270 tube stations during the Olympic Games, after Transport for London (TfL) asked Virgin Media to provide the service around zone 1 and 2. Virgin Media is planning to expand the coverage to ...

Travel Desk

The RMT has confirmed that workers at Heathrow Express will strike following what the trade unions claims to be "management’s disproportionate action and sheer intransigence".

A wave of industrial action is to take place in support of a sacked driver Zahid Majid who, despite a ...

Travel Desk

Complaints about noise from planes at Heathrow Airport have increased more than six-fold during a trial changing the use of the runways.

In November, when the trial started, there were 480 complaints compared with 75 during the same period in 2010. The loss ...

By Paula Planelles Manzanaro

The installation of electronic migration controls, known as “e-gates”, at Heathrow airport will be delayed until the results of an investigation which has caused turmoil at the UK Border Agency last autumn. The E-Gates would reduce queues of up to three hours ...

Travel Desk

Heathrow airport’s operator, BAA came under a barrage of criticism for cancelling flights on Sunday because of 10cm of snow, and has confirmed that flights on Monday resumed to fly out stranded passengers.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled on ...

News Desk

With mounting fears that there will be major traffic disruption during the Olmpic Games, Transport for London (TfL) and Olympics organisers have decided to open the “Games Lanes” during off-peak times. Originally only 80,000 people involved in the Olympics, such as athletes, officials, sponsors ...

New Desk

Travellers to London during the Olympic Games are today learning of the industrial strife that is engulfing London, with renewed threats by the RMT the tube union to reject a pay deal for its members during the summer games.

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow ...

Travel Desk

Flights taking off and landing at Heathrow will be cut by up to a fifth during the Olympic Games, to avoid standstill at the world's busiest airport. Every airport in the South East of London will be regulated as London will have to face ...