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Will write to the chief executive of p80 ferries today — telling him to rehire the 800 staff he sacked without notice earlier this month. grant shapps will warn peter hebblethwaite he plans to change the law to make sure all ferry operators serving uk ports pay at least the minimum wage. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent adam fleming and i asked him what mr shapps' letter will say. we have not seen it yet. it will be published later, so we can reach a judgment when we see it in black and white. what is happening this week is that the government back i will close a loophole in th...

The sacked workers but has said that actually, a30 of them have already completely accepted the offer they were given and a few dozen senior crew have actually gone back to sign contracts with the new agency, so essentially, progress seems to be being made if you look at it that way with p&o“s original plans. there is no sign they are rolling back on those, but the transport secretary, in his letter, saying, look, you now have a chance to get rid of that deadline, wrote back now, because legislation is expected to be passed, not past, but legislation is expected to be presented to parliament...

Few days' time, so what we have, is a nine day lockdown, imposed by the authorities, it is that blunt sometimes brutal instrument as they try to contain the resurgent covid—19 outbreak here in this country, they thought they had banished it but it has meant the confirmed new cases are increasing, and what is happening is, that strategy, of what the leadership calls its dynamic zero covid is being tested to the extreme, it is also though being subtly adapted. the uk's transport secretary will write to the chief executive of p&0 ferrying telling him to retire hire the 800 staff he sacked witho...

Services running also i have spoken to the fds, who are putting on more services than they might normally, so it is hard to tell exactly what disruption there might be over easter, but otherferry disruption there might be over easter, but other ferry operators are certainly trying to step into the breach, and i have also heard eurotunnel bookings have been busy, beyond what they would have expected for the pent—up demand there is for people to travel. we for the pent-up demand there is for people to travel.— for the pent-up demand there is for people to travel. we have the easter holida s,...

Schools and pupils are recovering after the pandemic. some parts of england are much further behind a challenge to these plans. branwen jefferies, bbc news, herefordshire. we will be talking to nadhim zahawi later in the programme, at about half past seven. the transport secretary will write to the boss of p&o ferries today, telling him to re—hire the 800 staff he sacked without notice earlier this month. grant shapps is expected to warn peter hebblethwaite that he plans to change the law, to make sure all ferry operators operating from uk ports pay at least the minimum wage. our chief polit...