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Drivers at each company will strike for 24 hours on dates between Saturday 2 and Friday 8 December, and will refuse to work overtime between Friday 1 and Saturday 9 December, causing more disruption for operators that rely on rest-day working.
Martin Gannon, the leader of Gateshead council and chair of the north-east joint transport committee, said what was happening as a result of the Go North East industrial action was βan absolute disgraceβ.
People in north-east England are forced to stay at home, missing work, medical appointments and college because of a bitter pay dispute with its drivers.
The union, which represents 20,000 crew and station staff, has drawn up a βmemorandum of understandingβ (MOU) with employers to ballot members at train operating companies over a deal that would backdate the 2022 pay rise and extend guarantees over jobs until the end of 2024.
Heavy rain is forecast across south and south-west of England, with 38 flood warnings and 160 flooding alerts in place days after Storm CiarΓ‘n hit the UK.
The yellow warning advises of the possibility of spray and flooding on roads as heavy rain falls on saturated ground.
Hundreds of schools were shut, roads closed, buildings damaged and flights and bus and rail routes affected. By 11am on Thursday the Environment Agency had issued 77 flood warnings for England and 188 flood alerts.
Government data shows that in 2022, there were 1,402 collisions involving e-scooters in Great Britain and 12 deaths caused as a result. E-scooter riders bear the brunt of this. Eleven of the 12 people killed were riders, as were 1,106 of the 1,446 people injured.
The move came after a huge public backlash to the cost-cutting proposals, which attracted 750,000 responses in a public consultation, 99% of which were objections, according to the passenger watchdogs managing the survey.
The move came after a huge public backlash to the cost-cutting proposals, which attracted 750,000 responses in a public consultation, 99% of which were objections, according to the passenger watchdogs managing the survey.
The Met Office warning covers Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee, Perth and Kinross, most of which experienced prolonged downpours that caused disruption for residents last week.
ScotRail services from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Inverness have been suspended
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The transport select committee told Huw Merriman there was an unacceptable lack of evidence about the
cumulative effect of the planned closures
, which risked excluding some passengers, including disabled travellers, from the railway.