8 h. ago Tube strike leads to almost total shutdown for evening rush hour

Tube strike leads to almost total shutdown for evening rush hour - latest updates  London Evening Standard

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8 h. ago Lorry overturns and bursts into flames on busy motorway sparking rush hour delays

Emergency services raced to the scene and the northbound carriageway of the motorway has been closed off as a result.

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8 h. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: London Underground almost completely shut down for evening rush hour

Thursday is the last of five consecutive days of RMT walkouts in the union’s dispute with TfL over pay and working hours - but disruption still expected on Friday

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9 h. ago M6 updates as lorry overturns and bursts into flames causing rush hour delays

Rush hour traffic is at a standstill on the M6 in Cumbria after a lorry overturned and burst into flames in rush hour traffic, closing the route between J36 Crooklands Interchange and the J39 Shap Interchange

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11 h. ago Lightning strike sparks 'rush hour' train delays across Greater Manchester

The region has been battered by heavy rain, thunder and lightning

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31 h. ago Why hundreds of people were evacuated from Piccadilly Station in rush hour 'madness'

Passengers faced disruption due to an alert

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31 h. ago All lines suspended as Tube strike wipes out rush hour services

All lines suspended as Tube strike wipes out rush hour services- latest updates  London Evening Standard

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31 h. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: All lines suspended as services wiped out during rush hour

Central, Circle, District, Northern, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines had earlier resumed some services despite the RMT strike

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34 h. ago Union leader calls for summit in bid to end strike by Tube workers

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey called on London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan to attend a summit with the union in a bid to find a resolution.

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36 h. ago Lime bike trips spike as Londoners seek alternative travel amid Tube strikes

Lime revealed a more than 50% jump in trips during rush hour traffic on Monday and Tuesday.

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42 h. ago Sheriffhall Roundabout: Morning rush hour delays as major Edinburgh roundabout partially blocked

Drivers are experiencing delays.

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43 h. ago M23 closure LIVE: Major UK motorway shut as incident causes rush hour chaos

Surrey Police have closed the M23 in both directions from its junctions with the M25 and Gatwick Airport this morning causing severe delays for motorists due to an incident

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57 h. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: Commuters face rush hour misery as London Underground and DLR paralysed — but one line fully open

Northern line gets up and running but most other services are suspended by the RMT strike

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58 h. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: Commuters face rush hour misery as London Underground and DLR paralysed — but one line is running

Northern line gets up and running but most other services are suspended by the RMT strike

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69 h. ago Lisbon’s funicular tragedy struck a city that is struggling to balance old and new | Larry Ryan

Any large, historic city is a fragile thing – but Portugal’s property and tourism boom has intensified this sense of vulnerabilityIt’s often only when something breaks that you learn how it works. Occasionally, I use the funiculars dotted around Lisbon to quickly navigate steep, sweat-inducing hills. They don’t feel dangerous; a touch precarious, perhaps, but only because the fin-de-siecle contraptions, with their angular poise against the steep inclines and narrow wooden benches, seem so unlikely. But I hadn’t thought about how they actually function until the tragic accident at the Elevador da Glória last week: two carriages at either end of the climb, connected under the track by a haulage wire in perfect balance, provide a counterweight to propel each other, with the help of an electric cable overhead.Last Wednesday evening, during rush hour, a cable connecting two of those carriages reportedly disconnected, causing the higher one to careen downhill, derailing and crashing into ...

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3 d. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: London Underground wiped out as RMT walkout brings rush hour misery

Virtually all London Underground services are suspended on a miserable Monday for commuters

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3 d. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: London Underground wiped out as commuters face rush hour misery amid RMT walkouts

Virtually all London Underground services are suspended on a miserable Monday for commuters

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3 d. ago ‘I was running for an eternity’: Eyewitnesses recall horror of Jerusalem bus stop shooting that left six dead

Israeli police said 12 people were injured after gunmen opened fire during rush hour

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3 d. ago Rush hour crash on Edinburgh bypass sparks delays as emergency services race to scene

Police and ambulance crews were called to the A720 after the incident took place at around 8.45am on Monday.

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3 d. ago M8 delays: Drivers hit by rush hour delays on first day of works on M8 at Hillington

Delays and disruption are expected as the nine month project kicks off.

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