Prime Minister David Cameron is facing bitter opposition over plans to create a new airport in the south east. A number of Tory MPs have written to Mr Cameron to protest a scheme which would see the construction in the Thames Estuary of an airport which could make Heathrow redundant, cause environmental damage and affect [...]

As part of its promotion of British talent, British Airways will repaint its planes with a dove design as a celebration of this summer’s Olympic Games in London. The artwork is the creation of Pascal Anson, a Brighton-based artist. BA also said that it would be redecorating some of its Boeing 747s and Airbus 319s [...]

The Transport Select Committee wants to cut the cost of insuring cars by making claimants prove that they have suffered whiplash injuries. The group is also proposing a ban on the sale of customer information to third parties. Transport Committee chair, Louise Ellman, said that the price of motor premiums had been driven up by [...]

Minibuses and large vans which are over the age of 10 years could be charged £100 per day for entering the Greater London area if they do not conform to pollution limits. Buses, lorries and coaches could be charged £200 per day if they too cannot meet the pollution standards set out by the European [...]

A new tax on airline carbon emissions is due to rolled out by the European Union on 1 January. The charges will apply to all carriers flying to or from an airport in the region and has been condemned by many countries outside the zone for being unfair. Some industry experts are concerned that it [...]

A general strike in Belgium today means that passengers planning to travel from or to the country on Eurostar will be unable to do so as the rail network is to be closed down. The train operator has asked passengers who were planning to travel on 22 December to exchange their tickets for a later [...]

An investigation has been launched into the high price of car insurance in the UK by the Office of Fair Trading. The body is looking into the £10 billion industry after it discovered that the average price of vehicle insurance had leapt by 21 per cent in just two years.
The regulator will be looking at [...]

Virgin Trains boss, Sir Richard Branson, has said that the government needs to judge the bids for the west coast mainline on the quality of service companies will deliver, rather than the amount of money they are prepared to put up. Virgin is up against French firm Keolis, backed by SNCF, and Dutch operator Abelio, [...]

Chancellor George Osborne has green lit 35 new rail and road schemes across the country which the government hopes will improve infrastructure and give a boost to the UK’s economy. Over the coming three years, £1 billion is to be spent on Network Rail, and a further £5 billion of tax payer’s money will go [...]

The average annual cost of owning and running a car in the UK is close to £7,000 according to a new study. The RAC has published figures which show that the price of petrol is the highest contributing factor as it has increased by around three times the rate of inflation. In the last year [...]