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All train firms will have to join a new rail ombudsman scheme to ensure "independent scrutiny" of passenger complaints
All train companies will have to participate in the new rail ombudsman scheme to ensure passenger complaints are effectively scrutinised, under plans set out today by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
Train derailed after stretch of track was 'not inspected for years after confusion over responsibility'
A train derailed after a stretch of track was not inspected for years because Network Rail and London Underground were confused as to who was responsible for it, a report has found.
Councils get a funding bump to help clean up bus emissions
Government announces winners of next tranche of funding from the Clean Bus Technology Fund, which will see almost 3,000 buses upgraded to cleaner technologies by 2020
Friday, 09 February 2018
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- Oldham bus firm first to be fined for pension law breachStotts Tours and Alan Stott will pay more than £60,000 after failing to enrol staff in a scheme.
Daily Post (North Wales)
- Bus services 'going backwards in time instead of forward', warns passengerCalls for Gwynedd Council to take notice of service issues reported since collapse of Express Motors when it revises its timetables in March
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- Bus pollution to be cut in Leicester - but it'll cost £2.2millionMore than 100 buses will be adapted to make them cleaner to run
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- Councils get a funding bump to help clean up bus emissionsGovernment announces winners of next tranche of funding from the Clean Bus Technology Fund, which will see almost 3,000 buses upgraded to cleaner technologies by 2020
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