It's one example of many, in the North West and beyond, where a lack of reliable, integrated transport is letting people down' ...

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 ...

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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.

Britain's state-owned rail firm will be set up within two years, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has revealed. The Cabinet minister said she has told officials at the Department for Transport ...

The most shocking admission made by Heidi Alexander, the new transport secretary, was that the pay increase for train drivers awarded by her predecessor Louise Haigh resulted in fewer staff being ...