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Anger as driver is injured by hooligans

20 Dec 2006Andy Reed, ASLEF’s National Organiser, said he was horrified at an incident which left a train driver critically injured after hooligans threw masonry from a bridge in Worcestershire.

ASLEF leader slams Railtrack ‘betrayal’

18 Dec 2006Keith Norman, leader of train drivers’ union ASLEF, has called remarks made over the weekend by Railtrack chief John Armitt ‘ either potty or treacherous’. Armitt has been calling for rural train services to be replaced by buses and taxis.

Union says no new roads from road pricing

1 Dec 2006Although primarily a ‘business’ review, today's Eddington Review shows just how much concerns about transport have changed. When it was set up in 2005, the government was under pressure from the CBI for not building enough roads. Now the emphasis is on climate change and the need to cut pollution from transport - a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

World Aids Day - 1st December 2006

1 Dec 2006The AIDS epidemic is a global emergency that effects people in every country on earth. UNAIDS estimated that by the end of 2005 a total of 25 million people will have died since AIDS was first recognised in 1981. In 2005, alone some 38.6 million people were known to be living with HIV, 4.1 million people were known to be newly infected and 2.8 million people lost their lives.