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Air France workers rip shirts from executives after airline cuts 2,900 jobs
Staff storm board meeting at Charles de Gaulle airport and force executives to flee, with one clambering over fence half-nakedStriking staff at Air France have taken demonstrating their anger with direct action to a shocking new level. Approximately 100 workers forced their way into a meeting of the airline's senior management and ripped the shirts from the backs of the executives.The airline filed a criminal complaint after the employees stormed its headquarters, near Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, in what was condemned as a 'scandalous'¯ outbreak of violence.
Patrick McLoughlin tells unions to 'stop whingeing' about Northern rail services
The Transport Secretary dismissed fears about trains without guards and revealed plans for an Oyster-card style system for the region
Heathrow's expansion could create up to 6,000 manufacturing jobs in Wales, according to a study
The manufacturing sector will benefit from two thirds of the 8,400 new Welsh jobs that Heathrow expansion will generate
New images of Heathrow Airport's proposed third runway revealed
Images showing a new central terminal area and business park, as part of Heathrow's third runway expansion plans, have been released by the airport
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BBC News
- Edinburgh tram inquiry due to beginThe inquiry into the Edinburgh trams project is to formally begin, with a preliminary hearing being held in the capital.
- Station to reopen after £44m upgradeManchester's Victoria railway station is to be officially reopened following a £44m upgrade.
The Independent
- Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin ‘kept quiet about rail crisis until after general election’The Independent revealed in March that chairman Richard Parry-Jones, the former Ford Motor Company executive, was going to lose his job
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- Fury as mild rain causes London Midland rail delaysTrain operator tells drivers to slow down - to outrage from commuters
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- Patrick McLoughlin tells unions to 'stop whingeing' about Northern rail servicesThe Transport Secretary dismissed fears about trains without guards and revealed plans for an Oyster-card style system for the region
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- Warwickshire rail campaigners welcome news of National Infrastructure Commission NEWS that Chancellor George Osborne plans to set up a National Infrastructure Commission under the chairmanship of former Labour Transport Secretary Lord Andrew Adonis has been quickly welcomed by the group campaigning for the restoration of the railway between Stratford-upon-Avon and Honeybourne, on the North Cotswold route.
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