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Train firm ‘reviewing’ distancing guidance after backlash

LNER had said it was following the English rules, meaning no masks or physical distancing required.

UK bus privatisation breached basic rights, says ex-UN rapporteur

Report blasts more expensive, unreliable routes outside London that have cut people off from communities and essential services. Britain's bus services outside London were so damaged by privatisation that people were unable to access basic needs such as work, education and healthcare, according to a scathing report by the former UN special rapporteur on human rights. Many people in Britain had lost jobs and benefits, been forced to give up on education, or been cut off from communities and healthcare as bus services grew more expensive, unreliable, and dysfunctional after the 1985 reform

Crossrail services could start in February at the earliest, MPs are told

Crossrail's chief exec tells the Public Accounts Committee of MPs that it has recovered time lost to COVID disruption but the pandemic has added to its already inflated costs.