4 h. ago Gatwick accepts changes on aircraft noise and public transport in expansion bid

In February, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announced she is prepared to support the expansion of Gatwick airport if the project is adjusted.

Politics

16 h. ago POLL: Should it be illegal to play loud music on public transport?

Should 'headphone dodgers' be slapped with fines?

Events

26 h. ago Brits back 'headphone dodgers' crackdown: YouGov poll reveals 60% want anyone who blares out loud music on public transport to be fined £1,000

A poll commissioned by YouGov surveyed 6815 Britons across the nation to deduce whether they supported calls for headphone dodgers to be fines.

Economics

29 h. ago ‘Headphone dodgers’ may not be able to afford £1,000 fines, says Badenoch

The Liberal Democrats have proposed steep fines for people playing music out loud from their phones on public transport.

Economics

31 h. ago Calls for ban on playing music on public transport with fines of up to £1,000 for culprits

The change could be brought about using railway byelaws, which already prohibit behaviours such as offensive language

Economics

32 h. ago Have your say: Should passengers who play music out loud get £1,000 fines?

The Lib Dems have led calls for fines up to £1,000 for 'headphone dodgers' on public transport, arguing that they disturb the peace of other commuters and that something needs to be done

Economics

38 h. ago Call to fine ‘headphone dodgers’ £1000 for blasting music on buses and trains

Sir Keir Starmer urged to crack down on antisocial so-called ‘headphone dodgers’

Economics

41 h. ago Politicians call for loud music on public transport to be made illegal with £1,000 fine

The Lib Dems have called for loud music on public transport to be banned and have said that fines should be imposed on those who do not follow the rules

Politics

41 h. ago Politicians float £1000 fines for 'headphone dodgers' who make others dread public transport

The Lib Dems are looking to amend the Bus Services Bill going through the House of Lords to make it illegal to play music out loud on public transport in England

Politics

47 h. ago Demands to fine ‘headphone dodgers’ who blast loud music on buses and trains

Sir Keir Starmer urged to crack down on antisocial so-called ‘headphone dodgers’

Politics

47 h. ago 'Headphone dodgers' who play music on buses and trains 'should face huge fine'

The Lib Dems have demanded £1,000 penalties for people who play loud music and videos on public transport as figures show most passengers are too intimidated to step in

Politics

47 h. ago Lib Dems call for music played out loud on public transport to be banned

The Liberal Democrats say that local authorities could impose rules banning music on buses by strengthening existing antisocial behaviour laws.

Events

61 h. ago Pensioner ‘assaulted’ by three teenage girls on London trains in series of attacks

Officers believe same group of teenage girls were involved in both incidents on public transport

Events

8 d. ago TfL reveal 10% of sex toys lost on public transport are returned to their owners

Cockfosters was the site of the most sex toy discoveries between 2014 and 2018

Politics

2 w. ago Additional public transport announced ahead of Open golf event at Royal Portrush

Tens of thousands are expected to flock to Northern Ireland’s north coast to see the world’s top golfers in July.

Sport

2 w. ago Where have all the headphones gone on public transport? The noise is eating into my soul | Adrian Chiles

Just one antisocial fellow traveller can ruin a journey. Is it a giant two-fingered gesture to the rest of the world?Some time in the early years of the last decade, a friend and I travelled by train from London to Barcelona, where we would be covering a football match for work. We had a very nice day, playing Scrabble and drinking train wine as we sped south. The only problem was that a kid near us, not 10 years old, was watching a cartoon or playing a game on an iPad without the benefit of headphones. The sound wasn’t so much loud as persistent. Slowly but surely it drilled its way into our skulls and started to eat into our souls. I shot the family a couple of glances but got a look back which managed to communicate two things. Firstly that they were sorry. Secondly that if they took the iPad off the kid, we’d all be sorry. So, on he went. And an otherwise perfectly pleasurable journey started to drag.Then I had an idea. I got my headphones out of my bag, caught the mother’s eye,...

Politics

2 w. ago 60 per cent of residents in Scottish national park struggle to find affordable housing as a third want to move

Residents generally felt the park was good for their mental health, but found the area challenging to live in when it came to housing and public transport

Politics

2 w. ago New call for tax refunds for people commuting to work by car or public transport

An online petition argues the burden of travelling to work is putting people under more financial pressure.

Economics

2 w. ago Fanfare as Perth's Destiny Bridge and New Kingsway are officially opened

But Greens say the money would have been better spent on public transport infrastructure.

Politics

2 w. ago Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prize

Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of science’, with honours also going to researchers for landmark work on multiple sclerosis, particle physics and ‘skinny jabs’For the past five years, David Liu – a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research facility in Massachusetts – has marked Thanksgiving by handing over his entire annual salary, after taking care of taxes, to the staff and students in his laboratory.It started as the pandemic broke and Liu heard that students who wanted to cycle instead of taking public transport could not afford bicycles. Given how hard they worked and how little they were paid, Liu stepped in. He couldn’t unilaterally raise their incomes, so emailed them Amazon eGift cards. This ran into problems too, however. “Everyone thought they were being scammed,” he recalls. And so he switched to writing cheques. Continue reading...

Economics