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Maik:

--- Quote ---Return rail tickets to be scrapped
Major reform set as Transport Secretary also commits to Boris Johnson's Great British Railways, a new public body

Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, will next week announce plans for new ticketing arrangements as he outlines how the Government will address a crisis on the railways.

The rollout of "single-leg pricing" will be unveiled, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.

It means that two singles will equal a return – making return tickets redundant – having proved a success during trials with passengers. 

Mr Harper will also commit to Great British Railways (GBR), a new public body that will bring the operation of track and trains under the same place for the first time. GBR was first unveiled by Boris Johnson and Grant Shapps in May 2021, but progress has stalled amid criticism that the body was tantamount to “nationalisation through the back door”.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/05/transport-secretary-scrap-return-rail-tickets/

Maik:
Brief video of how (not) to recue a cat atop a telephone pole.

Maik:

--- Quote ---Ghosts of Moria: living in the ashes of Europe's largest migrant camp – documentary

As Europe’s most infamous migrant camp burned to the ground on the island of Lesbos in 2020, two Syrians evaded police to stay. Living in a post-apocalyptic graveyard, the friends Ayham and Khalil, now race local scrap metal collectors to find what they can, which they are forced to sell at a reduced price. With what little money they make they buy food and cook together, dreaming of Aleppo before the civil war forced them to leave and waiting for an end to their bureaucratic limbo. From their shared tent their friendship endures, despite their impossible circumstances.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2023/jan/30/ghosts-of-moria-living-in-the-ashes-of-europes-largest-migrant-camp-documentary

Twenty five minute video report.

Maik:

--- Quote ---Amber Rudd: Boris really did try to get me in back of his car - but I refused
The ex-Cabinet Minister recalled how the former PM’s security howled with laughter when she doubled down on her ‘don’t trust him to drive you home’ jibe

Boris Johnson tried to get Amber Rudd into the back of his car after her famous TV jibe that she would not trust him to drive her home, she has revealed.

Former Home Secretary Ms Rudd said she rejected an invitation to join him in his official chauffeur-driven limousine when they left a Cabinet meeting.

She said police who witnessed the incident ‘howled with laughter’ at her rebuff to Mr Johnson, who was Foreign Secretary at the time.

To add insult to injury she told him she had meant it the first time she made the comment in 2016. In a wide ranging interview Ms Rudd, who opposed leaving the EU, also said:

*    Senior Conservatives who backed Brexit privately admit - ‘after a drink or two’ - it is a ‘disaster’
*    It was ‘impossible’ for her to be an active Tory because you ‘have to say Brexit is a success’

Ms Rudd sparked uproar in a TV debate in June 2016 before the EU referendum when she told Mr Johnson he was ‘the life and soul of the party… but he’s not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening’.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/amber-rudd-boris-johnson-taxi-b2275229.html

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