mr speaker, we are urgently working on improving gtr's performance.tive coming in as we speak. his task is clear from the instructions he has received. and that's to get performance back to where it should be as rapidly as possible. coming off the back of the turmoil we have seen a northern rail and elsewhere, is the electrification of the manchester the leeds line just another real serious blow for people in the north, who now feel overwhelmingly, time and time again, they are getting a second—class service from this government? this government is signalling its political commitment to the north of england by spending £13 billion on transport in the north in the years to 2020. and on allocating {2.9 billion to the trans—pennine route upgrade alone. and as i referencse, that represents a third of the rail enhancement budget for that five year period. jojohnson. the chancellor, philip hammond, says he will spell out the cost of a no deal brexit when senior ministers gather at the prime minister's country retreat of chequers on friday. senior ministers

and similarly gtr announced yesterday a comparable package of special compensation for passengers ongreat northern routes. another labour mp moved on to what action could be taken against govia thameslink — gtr — which is due to bring in a new timetable in mid—july. the public accounts committee has concluded that the threat to strip gtr of their franchise is not a credible one. what can he do to protect passengers from a continuation of the current appalling performance if thejuly 15th interim timetable fails to bring stability? minister johnson. mr speaker, rail operating companies will be held responsible for that portion of performance for which they are responsible and accountable and that is now under way. the secretary of state has set in train a hard review of gtr and at the end of that hard review, all appropriate options will be on the table and available to the secretary of state and to the government as a whole. rail passenger usage is falling, and is it any wonder that my constituents in cardiff central are giving up on using the train when a standard return rail ticket

the government has instigated a review of the gtr franchise.it take from the review that thousands of our constituents are not telling us every single day about this shambles to get the franchise removed once and for all as soon as possible, and a proper compensation scheme that properly reflects the agony and shambles that our constituents are going to on a daily basis? mr speaker, my right honourable friend makes a very powerful case on behalf of his constituents who have suffered unacceptably as a result of the disruption that they have experienced. and it is right that the industry has apologised and the government has apologised for everything that they have experienced. we are working hard to ensure that the disruption comes to an end as soon as possible, and also we are ensuring that this compensation and there is a proper explanations so that lessons can be learned for the future. jojohnson. the northern ireland secretary has condemned recent violence there, in which shots were fired and pipebombs thrown. there were six consecutive nigh

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gtr, which oversees thameslink, southern and great northern routes, changed the time of every serviceit meant some were withdrawn and cancelled without warning. the operator says the changes will mean an increase in services across the network. plumes of smoke have been seen across london as a large urban grassland caught fire in the east of the capital. more than 200 firefighters worked through the night on wanstead flats near stratford, to bring a blaze the size of 150 football pitches under control. kensington palace has released a set of photographs to mark the christening of prince louis. they were taken in the garden and morning room of clarence house following the service last week. photographer matt holyoak, who also took portraits to celebrate the 70th wedding anniversary of the queen and prince philip, said he hoped the images captured the joy of the occasion. more photos. we love seeing them, don't we? you love a baby photo, don't we? you love a baby photo, don't you? we were talking about the celebrations after the france— croatia game. did you see that? no, i didn't. i wa

network rail, the train operating companies, gtr and northerner and manchester, they have apologisedticians are notjust individual train operating companies, but the system of how the railways are run. as an industry what we are focused on is trying to stabilise the system that has been through a number of shocks, some of which are of our own making, which we have acknowledged. we are trying to reintroduce those services in the northern region gradually, rather than trying to do 100% today, because we are learning from the mistakes that were made on the 20th of may. we think the system can stand that 75% reintroduction. in terms of what went wrong with a timetable, as i say, we have got to wait until those inquiries come back, and then we will act on it. we also appreciate of course that politicians are reflecting the anger of their elected constituents, and it is right that they should do that. it is our responsibility to make sure that we make up for our m ista kes make sure that we make up for our mistakes and we run a proper service that people are paying for.” mistakes and we ru

these situations so this really more just reinforcement on the way to help the esu officers try to help gtrer down. >> we have phil mudd here. works in counter terrorism. you as you look at this unfold here now, how difficult is it to resolve something like this? clearly for the protester, and earlier in the day the person joined by seven or eight others and unfurled a banner talking about abolishing i.c.e., dealing with enforcement of the immigration laws and a protest on july fourth at the statue of liberty. i imagine the protester wants to keep the attention on of the world on thepgmselves. how do you resolve this? >> you know why it's difficult. it's peaceful. the question about the safety of the officers and the individual involved. if you're a ground level here, you could resolve this now. but despite the frustration with this individual, you can't afford to risk their life or their health so they'll sit there and be very cautious. the secondary issue to take hours to resolve is i got go back to my old life saying i need identification here because that is a name because i want to kno

gtr, which oversees thameslink, southern and great northern routes, changed the time of every servicey 20th. it meant some were withdrawn and cancelled without warning. the operator says the changes will mean an increase in services across the network. drivers could soon be allowed to go faster through motorway roadworks. highways england say it's considering raising the current speed limit from 50 miles per hour to 60 on quiet days when there are fewer workers nearby. but the union unite says any increase in speeds would endanger lives. model chloe ayling, who was held captive in italy for six days last year, has described how she tried to win over her captor. after two days of being chained to a chest of drawers, she agreed to share a bed with lukasz herba and discussed building a relationship with him. when he realised a ransom was not going to be paid, he released chloe, and drove her to the british consulate in milan. when i started sharing a bed with him, we would talk more, and i would ask him questions. he answered all my questions. he would talk about his life and then, the m

gtr defended his actions and said there was space at the back of the train. the piccadilly line has been suspend, although we have severe delays on that line, and minor delays on the metropolitan line. 0n the roads, there is traffic on the a13 building westbound from dagenham into barking. and ludgate hill and st pauls churchyard are closed from ludgate circus to godliman street for emergency gas work. let's have a check on the weather now with lucy martin. and generally cloudless morning and some funny spells. a lot of dry weather. we could see some early brightness for western parts of london this morning but plenty of cloud generally. a cloud thing as we move through the day. the chance of seeing the odd isolated shower into the afternoon. it could perhaps interrupted play at wimbledon. cabbages at a maximum of 26 celsius. some late spells of sunshine overnight, the cloud tending to increase as we move into the early hours. temperatures around 13 to 16 celsius. tomorrow, the chance of seeing a possibly slow—moving and thundery shower. it will be very hit a

gtr, which oversees thameslink, southern and great northern routes, changed the time of every servicent ben ando has been at london bridge station for us. commuters, and probably the management at govia thameslink, will be at least allowing themselves a small sigh of relief, because so far, things are considerably better than they have been since may the 20th, when the first new timetable was introduced, and sincejune the 4th, when a revised timetable was introduced, which still doesn't solve all the problems. some are delayed a few minutes, maybe, but most are running as they should. they've done that, they say, by prioritising the rush hour, the peak services morning and evening, and by moving trains around to try to ensure there are fewer delayed trains and fewer cancellations. they've done that by cutting some services of the timetable altogether, but at least passengers will have more certainty if they're confident that the trains that are advertised in advance will run when they say they'll run. it was one of the most exciting and memorable world cups of recent years. but while

we know one gtr, providing some of the very overcrowded services into london, the government allowedmply not good enough as a response to commuters having to pay enormous fares are not getting the sort of service they deserve. you say absolutely now sleep at 84% of trains were running according to schedule time. —— you say absolutely lousy. that was not the scheduled timetable for may. they put up with engineering works over a very long period on the promise of better services. the timetable in may was an absolute chaos. the interim timetable actually doesn't provide a big increase in services. some places, as we've heard, like in harpenden, have far fewer services. that should have been corrected in december that it won't even happen asa december that it won't even happen as a result of the mess the industry has made. lillian, that simply isn't true, there are 200 extra services running on gdr running every day, not fewer services. there are fewer services in harpenden, we have gone from 23 between 6:30am and 830 am in the morning down to 19. that isn't what was promised, robert, yo