uk railways because it effectively marks the end of a 30 year period of privatisation since british railwaysrivatised in 1994 and as you say, southwest railways is the first to come back into public ownership in may, followed by two east anglian franchise operators later in the year and the next year also a big step, the creation of a new body called great british railways cups of which will effectively recombine the 0wnership which will effectively recombine the ownership of the tracks and the operating companies for the first time in 30 years since british railways. so it is a big moment, a big change, the endo —— the end of and experiment which some would say has been successful. many more people travel by train now than 30 years ago. 0ther travel by train now than 30 years ago. other people would say the privatisation 0f years ago. other people would say the privatisation of the railways has been at failure, though, because service quality remains poor, the cost is much higher in the uk than in many comparable countries in europe, for example, so you are right. the key question for passe

which is designed to act as a guiding line for the whole of the british railway network.lway services public ownership act which gives the government power to take over railway franchises from private companies as and when they expire as the government believes this will be more efficient and cheaper. the aim is for the whole of the uk rail network to be in public ownership by the end of the decade, currently about 40% of it is, including the railway services in wales and scotland and when this process is complete, it will bring to an end the era of privatised railways in the era of privatised railways in the uk which began back in1991l. the leader of the welsh conservatives in the senedd, andrew rt davies, has resigned. he narrowly survived a confidence vote this morning. but he said the close vote showed a substantial minority of the party did not support him and that his position was untenable. arla foods, the owners of lurpak, have defended their decision to add a supplement to cow feed to help tackle climate change. the trial has provoked a debate on social media, wi

the government plans to set up a new body, great british railways, to take over contracts held by privatein the coming years. transport secretary heidi alexander says rail privatisation was three decades of failure. so the primary aim of this is to improve reliability and clamp down on the delays, the cancellation, the waste and the inefficiency that we've seen over the last 30 years. we've had private train operating companies running train services in this country over the last few decades, and it clearly hasn't worked. the system is broken and we desperately need to fix it. and so, as a first step on the journey to establishing a sort of more integrated and unified railway where we can get to grips with the day—to—day planning and make sure that we're making decisions that make sense, both for the train service and for the track and the infrastructure, we need to bring these train operating companies into public ownership. and so we, you know, we're going to turn the page really on the last 30 years of failure. heidi alexander there. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news

british transport police is urging passengers on trains and at railway stations in england, wales andcrease in thefts and robberies. more than 21,000 incidents were recorded in the first ten months of this year, according to freedom of information data, but that number is expected to increase during the winter months. the majority of crimes take place in london, but other hotspots include the west midlands, manchester and leeds. our transport correspondent sean dilley reports. captured. these suspected phone snatchers are coming in. they were seen wearing balaclavas, forcing their way through ticket gates. bleep. took your money? officers searched the men and found an expensive smartphone. it's wrapped up in tinfoil to try and block the signal so it can't be located or traced for the stolen items. it's a great result for the violent crime taskforce. how good does it feel when you catch a phone snatcher? it's a good feeling. because loads of phone snatches and phone thefts happen up and down the network every day. and when you do actually get one, it's a little win for the team. and al

companies they industry or british is tough to kind of company, for example, on when they came into his task. because you will see that they, why engage in the construction of railways for purposes of going into the, in the land on many of the roadways while i've been built by the indiana coolies from the calling in india. and the whole idea was that when you built the road with like these tasks, we can view guns red with. we started from the cost line of them bust up through the gun. that was meant to bring the coffee from uganda and as the goodies to the parts and then to the united kingdom. and this continued in different parts of the continent of africa. the new stock because of costs coffee was a major commodity that was traded to you was a major commodity, as we have indicated when they went to western fiber of africa in countries such as saturday, all countries such as the nigeria and the gone uh, your cost was cool, cool, and gold on today. if of course you go to the british museum and you know the places where they keep this octave flux, you'll find a lot of octave perhaps because it was also called 0. you'll find a lot of cultural dr. folks that was taken

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the british transport police is urging passengers on trains and at railway stations to be extra vigilant recorded in the first 10 months of this year, with the majority of crimes happening in london. other hotspots include the west midlands, manchester and leeds. our transport correspondent sean dilley reports. captured — these suspected phone snatchers are coming in. they were seen wearing balaclavas, forcing their way through ticket gates. bleep took your money. officers searched the men and found an expensive smartphone. it's wrapped up in tinfoil to try and block the signal, so it can't be located or traced for the stolen items. it's a great result for the violent crime taskforce. how good does it feel when you catch a phone snatcher? it's a good feeling because loads of phone snatches and phone thefts happen up and down the network every day. and when you do actually get one, it's a little win for the team. and also hopefully a victim can be reunited with their phone, because they're not cheap. niall mcnamee is one of the 21,540 victims of theft and robbery on the railway in the fir

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russian railways already promising to provide all the necessary help, pledging a full investigation will take place as well. now, jerry and authorities are a poorly set to green light. the sale of british oil giant shelves on shore, on the shallow water assets, which just over a 1000000000 box. the deal was initially rejected with local activists demonte the company fix pollution issues as course in the area. and the local media assigned the oil drive is set to invest in the deep water bone. good north project coming with a $5000000000.00 price tag. it'll include an undersea crossing to the existing shell operated bone growth facility. and once up original peak production of the bunker north will reach over a $100000.00 barrels of oil per day. with recoverable oil reserves estimated a 300000000. the 1st oil is expected to be extracted by the end of the decade. now the expansion of sales activities come a bit concerns over its current operations in the major at delta, which of course and environmental disaster. this weekend, nigeria is maritime agency, reported a rupture and a show pipeline course at all spelled into the local river is the 2nd crude spill with the problems with their li

the soon to be established body, great british railways, will manage train companies and track togetherng that passengers want to see, after years of strikes and disruption, and with more fare rises coming in the new year. simon browning, bbc news, at london waterloo. the time is 17 minutes past one our top story this afternoon. police question lucy letby in prison about the deaths and collapses of more babies at hospitals where she worked. her lawyer says she maintains her innocence. and 50 years after this snap of four friends on theirfirst girls�* holiday to torquay, their recreation becomes a social media sensation. coming up on bbc news, arsenal manager mikel arteta has warned new manchester united head coach ruben amorim that the premier league is tougher than anything he had experienced before. arsenal host his side at the emirates later. in the next couple of hours, scotland's finance secretary shona robison will unveil her draft budget. she's under pressure to set out wide—ranging reforms, to address what are seen as deep—seated problems in areas like health and education. our

the government plans to set up a new body, great british railways, to take over contracts held by privateminister is widely expected to be ousted today by a confidence vote. the motion was called by the opposition after michel barnier used executive powers to force through social security legislation earlier this week. far right leader marie le penn — who could save barnier if she chose to — has now said she will vote against the government. the us president—elect, donald trump, has formally asked for his hush money conviction to be thrown out, ahead of his return to the white house. mr trump was found guilty of falsifying business records over payments he made to the adult film star, stormy daniels, in the run—up to the 2016 presidential election. about 300 beds in hospices in england are not available — having either been fully de—registered, or taken out of operation — mainly because of a shortage of funding and staff. hospice uk, who provided the figures, are calling for an urgent package of government funding to prevent further cuts. our health editor hugh pym reports. hospice leader

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