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Ban UK domestic flights and subsidise rail travel, urges transport charity

Campaign for Better Transport calls on government to end climate disaster of internal flights. Domestic flights should be banned and long-distance train fares subsidised, transport campaigners have urged, highlighting the relative environmental and financial costs of air and rail travel.The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) called on ministers to outlaw internal UK flights if an equivalent train journey took less than five hours and to resist calls for any cut in air passenger duty.

Nationalised rail chiefs get inflation-busting pay rise [subscription]

Executives on the DfT OLR Holdings board shared remuneration of £718,000 this year, a rise of 5.7pc on 2020. Ministers have been accused of hypocrisy after bosses at Britain’s nationalised rail operator were handed an inflation-busting pay rise despite ordinary rail workers being forced to endure a two-year freeze on wages.