Rail companies franchises according to mps on the transport committee. Their report criticises Whitehall Forfailing to hold Rail Companies to account. The government says its already implementing many of the mps recommendations. Heres our Business Correspondent joe lynam. If youre a regular train user, youll know all about the disruption at southern rail, the above inflation ticket rises and carriages bursting at peak times. How do you feel about rail franchises, though . I live in halifax so i always get the Northern Line to manchester or to leeds and its always late. Theres, like, two carriages for a million people. Its very expensive, thats why i dont normally use them because i can drive much cheaper. I think there should still be franchising but it needs more regulations in place to punish the train companies. I tend to travel on virgin, i tend to prefer them over the other ones. They tend to be very reliable. The Transport Select Committee which oversees the government says that
Will loves kate. This is when the royals got married in 2011. Were going to be on social media this morning. We want you to snap a picture and send it in. Were going to share pictures of ourselves drinking our morning cup of joe. Welcome on this thursday morning. Tom holly sipping his 7eleven mug. What would we do without caffeine . It is very early. We have a few light showers tracking their way through the area. Partly sunny skies, theres going to be a slight chance for showers, the best chance will be up in the higher terrain. 79 degrees at 9 00 a. M. , 85 at noon. 89 at 4 00. Wait until you see the roller coaster ride weve got going on i was already planning on talking about decatur and 215 because there was some emergency work scheduled in the westbound lanes, now we have an accident in the eastbound lanes. Thats sort of overshadows the work in the westbound lanes, this accident is blocking off all but one lane. Traffic is slow getting through heading east. You see on the other si
The government believes the next few weeks are critical. Also tonight. The government publishes its social ca re the government publishes its social care plan for england including fresh guidelines for visitors to their homes. The new siberia, as Global Warming melts permafrost, transforming the landscape. And, hes back. Gareth bale returns to tottenham from real madrid, on a weekly wage of £600,000 a week. And coming up on bbc news, winged foot bares its teeth. Tougher conditions proved treacherous at the top of the leader board on day two of the us open. Good evening. After a significant rise in coronavirus cases, borisjohnson tonight warned that a second wave of the pandemic is coming. More than three Million People in england have now been told theyll face tighter restrictions from next tuesday, with merseyside, lancashire and parts of the midlands and West Yorkshire coming under the same local rules now in force in the north east of england. The nhs Nightingale Hospital in birmin
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