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Tourist tax or more government cash for public buses, says Andy Burnham
Greater Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham has floated the idea of a tourism tax as a means of helping fund stronger bus services across the country at Labour conference in Liverpool.
Commuters being 'priced off railways' as unions call for renationalisation
Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, and Mick Whelan, of Aslef, says bringing the railways back into public ownership is the answer to lower fares
Monday, 23 September 2024
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