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Sep 24, 2026
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Jul 15, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Katy Austin

    Reported assaults on Britain's rail services have risen substantially, regulator says (opens the original)

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    Reports of violent incidents and harassment on rail services "rose substantially" last year, figures from the rail regulator show. Reported assaults, including physical and verbal, were up 36% in the year to March 2026 compared with the previous year, according to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). In total 13,464 assaults against passengers and members of the public were recorded on Britain's mainline railway, the highest number recorded since the series began in 2004. The ORR said the figures

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Katy Austin

    Flight chaos caused by software defect, says air traffic control body (opens the original)

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    An air traffic control failure that sparked widespread travel chaos earlier this month was caused by a "software defect" affecting the system underpinning UK air space management, the national air traffic service Nats has said. The problem happened "in the space of a millisecond", Nats said, leading to the system producing corrupted data. The failure led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers affected, with some sleeping on airport floors or getting st

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Katy Austin

    Flight chaos caused by millisecond software defect, says air traffic control body (opens the original)

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    An air traffic control failure that sparked widespread travel chaos earlier this month was caused by a "software defect" affecting the system underpinning UK air space management, the national air traffic service Nats has said. The problem happened "in the space of a millisecond", Nats said, leading to the system producing corrupted data. The failure led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers affected, with some sleeping on airport floors or getting st

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Katy Austin

    Ryanair boss O'Leary defends 'high-fare rapists' airlines remarks (opens the original)

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    Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has refused to apologise to a rape crisis centre which criticised him for describing rival airlines as "high-fare rapists". Speaking to journalists, O'Leary said some people were "desperate to get to Ryanair's low fares because they can't afford to fly with the high-fare rapists around Europe". O'Leary doubled-down on his choice of words when asked about them at the time, and later refused to apologise when the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) wrote to him

  5. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Katy Austin

    Virgin's Richard Branson: Flight price rises due to 'foolish leaders' starting wars (opens the original)

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    Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson has blamed flight price rises on "foolish leaders" starting wars, in a thinly veiled reference to the US-Israel conflict with Iran. Middle East tensions have choked the production and transportation of millions of barrels of oil, causing a surge in the price of car and jet fuels, which are made from oil. In May, Virgin Atlantic added a fuel surcharge to ticket prices in response. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly defended the conflict as necessary

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