Passengers face major changes on the railways as services are ramped back up to 70 per cent of normal levels today. Travellers will be required to wear face coverings during their journey. To allow for social distancing, passengers on at least four major lines will be told to reserve a seat in advance if they … Read more
City centre parking charges could be AXED in a desperate bid to tempt commuters off buses and trains Grant Shapps said parking charges may be waived to ward commuters off trains The Transport Secretary said people have ‘a civic duty to avoid public transport’ His warning comes as Sadiq Khan threatened to run fewer summer … Read more
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says building new hospitals in weeks during coronavirus crisis shows it should not take ’20 years to build a road’ as he pledges to ‘rapidly improve’ UK infrastructure Grant Shapps pointed to building of NHS Nightingale hospitals during crisis He said if hospitals can be built quickly there is no reason … Read more
York could become Britain’s first electric car-only city as local officials push to ban petrol and diesel vehicles when the lockdown is lifted Councillors want York to become the United Kingdom’s first zero-emissions city The city is already due to ban private car journeys in the area by as soon as 2023 After the lockdown … Read more
Trials of the contact-tracing app the NHS will use to help Britain come out of coronavirus lockdown will begin on the Isle of Wight this week. The app, which will monitor whether someone has been close to a person diagnosed with COVID-19, is a part of the Government’s ‘test, track and trace’ approach. Transport Secretary … Read more
Foreign arrivals to UK could FINALLY be quarantined and forced to install NHS contact tracing app to lower the risk of bringing in a new wave of coronavirus, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps reveals The UK has been very much an outlier by not insisting arrivals are checked Airport arrivals are advised to self-isolate but there … Read more
Coronavirus contact tracing app will go into testing on Isle of Wight this week ahead of UK rollout this month NHSX app will be tested on the Isle of Wight this week, Grant Shapps revealed Smartphone app will be ‘completely confidential’ with data seen by NHS staff It will need to be downloaded by more … Read more
Isle of Wight hospital to get emergency supplies via DRONE from British mainland as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps reveals an £8million trial programme has been brought forward to next week The flights will link the Solent ports and St Mary’s Hospital near Newport The drone flights across the Solent shipping channel will begin next week … Read more
Ministers are underestimating the public by refusing to discuss exit strategies for ending the coronavirus lockdown, senior Tory MPs have warned. The Government has set out what needs to happen before it will consider lifting the measures, but there has been no detail on how the easing of restrictions will take place. Tory backbenchers and … Read more
Air filters are going be installed on buses in a bid to protect drivers, it has been revealed today. The technology will be installed on 100 London buses which are used to take ferry patients to and from hospitals, according to The Times. The AirBubbl air filtration system supplied by technology company AirLabs can remove … Read more
Britons should hold off booking summer holidays until the ‘trajectory’ of the coronavirus outbreak is clearer, Grant Shapps suggested today – as he admitted an ‘exit plan’ from lockdown will not be unveiled for at least two weeks. The Transport Secretary said he had no intention of lining up a break himself amid fears that … Read more
Britain will waive import taxes on coronavirus testing kits, ventilators and other vital medical supplies in a bid to boost the fight against the deadly disease amid widespread criticism of the government’s testing operation. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this evening that NHS suppliers will no longer have to pay customs duty and import VAT on … Read more
Ministers are facing fresh fury over the lack of mass coronavirus testing today amid claims the UK does have the lab capacity to match Germany. Experts insisted ‘organisation’ rather than a shortage of facilities was to blame for slow rise in checks – warning that the lockdown cannot end until the situation changes. However, there … Read more