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Wanted to find a solution that would avoid strikes and achieve a fair deal for passengers, taxpayers and staff. no—one wins out of strikes, so it's really important we get back around the table and try and resolve this matter. striking will only disadvantage customers, the economy, and staff themselves. contingency measures are being worked on to try and keep as many passengers and goods moving on the railway as possible if the strike goes ahead. katie austin, bbc news. well, downing street has this morning attacked the rail unions, calling plans for the strikes selfish and throughly irrespo...

Scale of the action means that there will be significant disruption to passenger and freight services across britain, with only 20% of services able to run on strike days. the dates to have been announced fall in a week when a number of major sporting and cultural events are scheduled including glastonbury festival. the rail industry is under pressure to save money. the government poured in billions to keep services going through the pandemic. passenger numbers and revenue have not recovered to pre—covid levels. the industry trade body said tonight he wanted to find a solution that would avo...

More than 1800 covid patients alone. evenif more than 1800 covid patients alone. even if you remove those admitted with covid rather than because of it, pressures are high but are far below what we saw this time last year and that's largely down to the vaccine holding up. but the pressures are far below what we saw this time last year. in scotland, restrictions like table service only in hospitality venues are in place, england has fewer measures compared to the rest of the uk but this will be reviewed tomorrow. the government is lookin: at be reviewed tomorrow. the government is looking at th...

It's good to see some glimmers of hope from london, that the cases may be flattening. but lancashire isn't london and many regions aren't well resourced like london, especially at a time when cases are getting up in the 60 plus age group. during a normal winter in england, the nhs would normally expect to see 1000 respiratory illness cases a day. 1000 respiratory illness latest figures show there were more than 1800 covid patients alone. even if you remove those admitted with covid rather than because of it, pressures are high, but are far below what we saw this time last year and that's large...

Railways —— what contingency measures. we know there is a back—up plan to prioritise access to testing if there is a real crunch on the supply of tests, and the vaccines minister maggie throup was this morning talking about some of the other things that have been done. it's important that people know we've recently reduced the number of days of isolation from ten days to seven days, with two lateral flow tests taken that are negative. so, that's one step. and i'm sure listeners will appreciate that the government's looking at the data all the time and putting in contingency measures. it ...