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    Passengers locked inside Hartlepool station

    There’s no legal requirement for fire exits to be unlocked (on a station or anywhere else) when there are no people, including staff, there. They must be unlocked when staff arrive however.
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    Passengers locked inside Hartlepool station

    Indeed, court case ongoing and the judge has just put on a black cap...
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    Global Airlines launch flights announced

    It’s a HiFly A340 in their livery with Global decals that’s already been sold to a Zimbabwean airline and shortly to be delivered (new reg already known) and is currently flying for Surinam Airways. Grifters gotta grift….
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    LNER - Losses and subsidy increase despite increase in passenger numbers

    The cost of the puppet will be included in the advert cost as that's what it was made for (if it’s not actually CGI, either way the cost will be contained within the marketing campaign costs).
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    LNER - Losses and subsidy increase despite increase in passenger numbers

    Profits falling/losses increasing can't be blamed on increased passenger numbers unless they've suddenly significantly increased the availability of cheap fares, which we know hasn't happened.... More passengers equals more revenue, something else is driving this. Your last sentence is pure...
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    LNER - Losses and subsidy increase despite increase in passenger numbers

    Just a shame that passenger numbers have increased, isn’t it?
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    6,000 Airbus Planes Grounded

    And Wizz have said that for the airframes that need it for then it’s just a software upgrade.
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    Airport drop off charges

    So we're clear that there's no current byelaw that relates to the use of the dropoff, it doesn't matter when they were revised. Gatwick's byelaws are actually very brief and there's a boatload of common scenarios across a huge range of areas covered under other law that aren't covered in them...
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    Airport drop off charges

    No, that doesn't follow at all. Only if there are byelaws in place that cover that activity, otherwise standard legal provisions apply. There are NO byelaws at Gatwick which relate to parking payment or drop off, so there are no byelaw offences applicable. As I've said before, it's not as if the...
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    Airport drop off charges

    That’s nice. Doesn’t alter the actual legal position, it just means that Gatwick has chosen not to pursue some people. What we don’t know is how many people have been successfully (and lawfully) issued a PCN for non-payment of a drop zone fee. The legal position is exactly what I said it was...
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    Airport drop off charges

    I'm aware of the law, thanks. In relation to Gatwick there is nothing whatever relating to offences around the drop off zones or parking in the car parks contained in either Byelaw 5 or 6 other than 6.3, a short paragraph stating that you can only park in car parks (summarised). It's just...
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    Airport drop off charges

    It's a contractual charge on private land and is enforceable in exactly the same way as any other contractual charge. At Gatwick the T&Cs for use of parking are not contained within the byelaws so parking is a commercially governed thing. If you enter the zone you're liable to pay the charge...
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    Dunkirk-Rosyth ferry nearing regulatory changes for restarting

    However the Spanish examples given are the shortest (and only) sea routes directly between the countries they serve. Anyone from Scotland likely to use Rosyth could drive to Newcastle (2.5hrs away) or even Hull (5hrs) to get the ferries from there and save a few hours on crossing time without...
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    Dunkirk-Rosyth ferry nearing regulatory changes for restarting

    Absolutely nothing since 2018 when the freight service stopped... 1763398335 But this route reopening (if it ever does) doesn't remove that requirement, the MSP is implying that it does remove barriers.
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    Dunkirk-Rosyth ferry nearing regulatory changes for restarting

    In what world does the potential restarting of this route 'remove "unnecessary post-Brexit barriers"' (other than the SNP's fantasy one)? Scotland has exactly the same regulatory regime in that sense as the rest of the UK.
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    Jet2 to open base at Gatwick

    As far as bucket and spade destinations are concerned J2 is predominantly a package holiday business, and they’d much rather sell you one of those as opposed to a flight only, hence high flight prices. Different market to Ryanair and EasyJet (although the latter also do holidays).
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    Air India crash at Ahmedabad on flight towards Gatwick - 12/06/2025

    India’s hugely corrupt legal system shouldn’t be anywhere near this for reasons that have been explained at length already. That they’re interfering already means that the report will lack credibility.
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    Air India crash at Ahmedabad on flight towards Gatwick - 12/06/2025

    An entirely unhelpful (but sadly almost inevitable) intervention from India's legal system... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/07/air-india-pilot-not-to-blame-for-crash-that-killed-241/ If it's paywalled for people then India's Supreme Court has stated that the AAIB's view that...
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    Porterbrook Class 150 gifted to Mid Hants Railway.

    Unfortunately it has. Exactly the same effect is also now apparent in things like classic cars. The more mundane pre and immediately post WW2 stuff is now much more difficult to shift compared to restored Fords, Vauxhalls etc from the 60s/70 and even early 80s that people can actually remember...

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