Category: Travelling

An MP who admitted she had “culpably and recklessly” put people at risk after traveling by train from London to Scotland after testing positive for Covid-19 has been ordered to undertake a 270-hour community payback order.

Margaret Ferrier, the former Scottish National party politician, who now sits as an independent MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, admitted at a hearing at Glasgow sheriff court last month that she had exposed the public “to the risk of infection, illness and death” .

Despite repeated calls for her to do so and to the frustration of many of her constituents, she has refused to stand down, but may now face further investigation by Commons authorities now the police investigation has concluded.

After the rule-breaking came to light in October 2020 she immediately referred herself to the police and to the parliamentary commissioner for standards and apologised unreservedly for her conduct

It emerged

Across the world, millions are grieving the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

Tributes have poured in from every corner of the globe, from New Zealand to New York.

But London – the city where the monarch spent the Blitz and lived much of her life – will doubtless be the center of commemoration. As of Wednesday morning, more than 2000 people were already lining up to see the Queen lying-in-state.

With hundreds of thousands more mourners expected, the cabinet office is urging travelers to plan ahead.

“We recognize that many people will travel to Buckingham Palace and other Royal Residences as a mark of their respect,” a spokesperson said.

“We expect large crowds, which can pose risks to public safety. Those who do travel are asked to follow any instructions given to them by stewards and the police.”

If you want to visit the capital to pay your respects, here’s

Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the West to ban all Russians from entering their countries in response to Vladimir Putin’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine.

The embattled president urged world leaders to close their borders to all citizens of the invading nation in a bid to further punish the Kremlin for its savagery.

He told the Washington Post: ‘The most important sanctions are to close the borders — because the Russians are taking away someone else’s land.’

He added Russians should be forced to ‘live in their own world until they change their philosophy.’

The Ukrainian leader wants the West to close its borders for a year to Russian citizens and impose a full embargo on the purchase of Russian energy.

Throughout the war, he has

Apeppers are “always in a hurry”, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America”, his opus published in 1835. Until the covid-19 pandemic, nowhere was this more evident in recent decades than in packed trains at peak times as people commuted to work.

Almost 75% of professionals in America say the journey is what they dread most about going back to the office. Working remotely a few days a week is here to stay. Rush-hour traffic, overcrowded trains and transport strikes (like those on London’s tube in the past week) all argue for working from home. Across America and Europe rising fares eat into people’s salaries. The outcry for lower carbon emissions adds additional weight to