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28 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
🚨 BREAKING: London and Southeastern Railway will be taken over by the government next month, after an investigation uncovered a "serious breach" of its franchise agreement

telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
🔴The government found the company did not declare over £25m of historic taxpayer funding which should have been returned

telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
🚄The government said it will take over services from October 17th

Follow the latest updates on our @telebusiness liveblog 👇
telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
🛤️Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “There is clear, compelling and serious evidence that LSER has breached the trust that is absolutely fundamental to the success of our railways. When trust is broken, we will act decisively”

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29 Sep
⛽️❓Where did all our petrol stations go?

The threats currently facing forecourts follow decades of decline and consolidation as stations seek to reinvent themselves

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📉The total number of petrol stations in the UK declined from 37,500 in 1970 to 8,591 at the end of 2014.

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🔴Sir Keir Starmer is delivering a make-or-break speech as he looks to secure control of his party.

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29 Sep
⛽️"The fuel panic – I won’t call it a crisis, as it is largely self-made – exposes many things, and one of them is our dependence on cars" writes @TanyaGold1

"Too often big cars, which need a lot of fuel".

Does the UK have a car problem?

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🚘The SUV market continues to grow, particularly in cities.

Gold writes: "Only a farmer needs an SUV. In central London, where they are most popular, they are entirely performative"

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There are 40 million cars in Britain now, the issues these vehicles cause are endless...

⚠️Traffic
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🚴Danger to cyclists
🍃Growing threat of air pollution
🌳Paved over so many gardens for parking spaces
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29 Sep
🔴A former police officer who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard will return to the Old Bailey today to learn if he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Follow the latest updates on the hearing ⬇️
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🔴In July, Couzens pleaded guilty to Sarah Everard's murder, kidnap and rape by video link from jail.

Today, he will come face-to-face with his victim's family as he is brought into the dock of the Old Bailey for his sentencing
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🚨 BREAKING: Wayne Couzens may have used the Covid lockdown rules to lure Sarah Everard into his car and arrest her, the Old Bailey has been told

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28 Sep
♀️"I went into menopause at the age of 37 - no woman should have to suffer in silence"

Writing for @Telegraph, one woman explains how the early diagnosis made her working life a living hell.

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🔴Dawn Coker was thrust into an early menopause after she was diagnosed with endometriosis and had both her ovaries removed to tackle the pain
✍️"I was working in the finance sector at the time, for a bank, and my job involved frequent travel between my home city of Liverpool and both London and Edinburgh…"
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27 Sep
🚨BREAKING: R Kelly found guilty in sex abuse trial
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➡️After six weeks of disturbing testimony, the jury deliberated just nine hours before finding the incarcerated 54-year-old celebrity, trailed by sex abuse allegations for decades, guilty
🔴Prosecutors had accused Kelly of exploiting his stardom over a quarter-century to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex.

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