Commuters across the country could boycott rail companies beset by strikes, in favour of rival firms, under proposals to allow different operators to run trains on the same lines. Jo Johnson, the transport minister, said the government may give train companies “open access” to more routes in order to give…
Read MoreJohn recently wrote to Ministers about speeding up new laws to reveal UK properties bough with dirty money by kleptocrats, oligarchs and organised criminals. Here is the reply he was sent: Thank you for your letter of 26 July 2018 about the draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill, and your kind…
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The revitalisation of a vacant Weston-super-Mare building is nearing completion, with hopes it will ‘inject fresh energy’ to the town centre. The former Co-operative Bank building, on the corner of Meadow Street and Alexandra Parade is being converted into flats and retail space, with the project due to be finished…
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A FEW YEARS before Jay Hammond, a Republican, was elected to serve as Alaska’s governor in 1974, he worked as mayor of the small borough of Bristol Bay. There, he watched as nearly all of his town’s rich salmon resources were extracted from the region, with virtually none of the…
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