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Great Western Railway has avoided much of the environmental impact of diesel trains by developing its own battery-powered train.
Private client firm specialist Charles Russell Speechlys has hired international arbitration and investigations expert Peter Brabant as a partner in its recently opened Singapore office from King & Spalding, where he was a counsel.
Great Western Railway’s ‘fast-charge’ battery train, 230001, is undergoing a 12-month trial on the Greenford branch in west London, to assess its technology and consider whether it could be used on other lines.
SIR – Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, has said that wages are too high to hit inflation targets (report, February 2). Once again, Mr Bailey shows scant regard for cause and effect, basic economics or natural human behaviour.
Five men have been jailed for nearly 19 years after a police raid on a cannabis farm in Leeds.