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Of a £6,000 spring spike could add more worry. thank you, marc ashdown. the transport secretary, grant shapps, has urged the head of the rmt union to put network rail�*s pay offer to its members for a vote. it comes as another strike on the railways today caused more serious disruption. mr shapps said the proposal of an 8% pay rise over two years was fair. the rmt general secretary says his members won't be bullied or hoodwinked into accepting a raw deal. helena wilkinson reports. a now familiar sight for rail passengers across the country. half empty stations, weekend plans and services se...

Here's our business correspondent, marc ashdown. to motorists, it can sometimes feel like fuel prices go up like a rocket and come down like a feather. after the spring spike, they are now starting to come down, but could the government be doing more to help? research by the rac shows the 5p a litre cut in fuel duty in march is the second—lowest reduction compared to 13 european neighbours. fuel tax in portugal has been cut by the equivalent of 16p a litre. in italy, it's 21p, and in germany, 25p of tax on every litre has been scrapped. 45% of your fill—up is tax. this is why we wanted the...

But it's entirely different to doing things right now that would make the situation far worse and endanger people's mortgages which is not something i want to do. motoring group the rac is urging the government to do more to help drivers with high fuel costs — accusing ministers of providing some of the least generous help in europe. petrol prices in the uk have hit record highs this year, partly down to russia's invasion of ukraine. here's our business correspondent, marc ashdown. to motorists, it can sometimes feel like fuel prices go up like a rocket and come down like a feather. after th...

From that crisis. we've taken some tough steps together, and the good news is our economy is growing again. but we need it to grow faster. businesses have created almost 4.3 million new jobs over the last 27 months. [ applause ] >> but to recover all the jobs that were lost in that recession, we've got to have them come back faster. the truth is, the recovery sees stronger job growth than what happened during the last recession a decade ago, but the problem is the hole we have to fill is a lot deeper. the global aftershocks are much greater. we're already seeing it just like last year around t...