It’s also why we have put record funding of £1.6bn into local councils for repair work on the nation’s roads - with an increase of £1.5m for Swindon Borough Council.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has a deadline of the end of the day to decide whether to approve a development consent ...

If the airport wins permission for its controversial expansion plan, construction would start almost immediately.

Britain will decide on Thursday whether to allow Gatwick Airport to expand, a move that could add millions of extra ...

The transport secretary has said she is "not a flight-shaming eco warrior" ahead of her decision over whether Gatwick airport ...

On Thursday Gatwick will hear from her Cabinet colleague Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander whether London’s second airport can press ahead with its own ambitious expansion plans. But there is ...

Heidi Alexander says ‘sometimes the unions are wrong’ and that she ‘won’t blink’ during talks over ending industrial action The Transport Secretary has vowed to take on rail unions as ...

The transport secretary has shown support for airport expansion ahead of the decision on Gatwick’s second runway.

This landmark reform will sweep away decades of failure Heidi Alexander, Transport Secretary Devolved leaders will be given more influence on services that directly affect their towns and cities.

Two unions have stepped up calls on Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander to approve a second runway at Gatwick Airport. Andy Prendergast, national secretary at the GMB, and Prospect general ...

Comments branding transport funding pledged following the scrapping of the northern leg of HS2 "fantasy money" have prompted a call for clarity for millions announced for York and North Yorkshire.

Fifteen community groups have sent a letter to the transport secretary Heidi Alexander arguing that LTN schemes often “do not have the backing of local people”. Police cars, fire engines and ...