The London Daily News

Oxford Street tube station was evacuated in this morning’s rush hour after a second fire alert in a matter of weeks.

A small blaze in an air conditioning unit was spotted by a member of staff and the London fire brigade was called at 7.30am.

Yesterday the Rail ...

A tube union has called in the rail regulators over a alleged escalator fire at Euston station.

The Rail Maritime and Transport union claims smoke detection systems failed four weeks ago and that there are disturbing parallels with the Kings Cross disaster in 1987 which saw 31 ...

No-frills airline Ryanair have called for military intervention to break strikes by Spanish air traffic control workers.
 
Workers are threatening a strike in mid August at the peak of the summer holiday trade potentially effecting hundreds of thousands of UK passengers.
 
The Spanish government said they ...

Holidaymakers are at "risk" after the Civil Aviation Authority lost a court case defining what a package holiday is, the regulator says.

Yesterday the CAA was refused leave to appeal a High Court ruling that found in favour of a travel agency who sell unlicensed package holidays.

Just days before a major strike ballot is due to close, Tube unions have stoked the fires accusing London Underground of "blatant intimidation".

The Rail Maritime and Transport Union is currently balloting 10,000 Tube workers for industrial action over the axing of 800 ticket staff and 140 ...

City Hall Desk

·       London’s newest public transport system goes live with 315 docking stations and 5000 bikes available
·       More than 12,000 pioneer members sign up to use the scheme, with over 6000 keys activated
·       New icons set to transform London's landscape ...

Over 9,000 people have registered for London’s bike hire scheme which is due to go live tomorrow morning.

In the early hours 6,000 bicycles will be loaded into 350 bays across nine boroughs for use by pre-paid registered members only.  Potential users have had a week to sign ...

Over a million children and students applying for free bus and discounted Tube travel will soon have to pay a £10 administration fee.

From September 1 the 18+student and 16+ Zip Oyster cards will have to cough up the cash which was previously converted to credit.

Transport for ...

Tube bosses are today suspending services between Hammersmith and Paddington for three weeks due to Crossrail works.

Circle line and Hammersmith and City line trains will terminate at Edgware Road until August 15 as engineers at Paddington demolish an abandoned taxi ramp and canopy above the lines.

The ...

Mayor Boris Johnson's great cycle hire experiment goes live today with online registration open to public.

From next Friday 6,000 bikes at 400 docking stations across nine boroughs will be available to members - 'casual' use by tourists and visitors will not be available until the end of ...