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Just after 7 this morning, mick whealan, the boss of the train drivers union, has left, told the bbc his members hadn't seen a pay rise in four years. and the reality is that our people are getting increasingly infuriated. after four years of how you deal and the idea that we are going to give up hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds of productivity, that takes 140 years to gain for nothing. and a sub rpi increase isn't going to wash. about an hour later, government minister hugh merriman told us that at the moment, a train driver is paid on average for a 35 hou...

The UK will be hit by more rail strikes in May and June, after Aslef members rejected a 4 per cent pay rise. So, how much are train drivers paid? Do they get paid when they go on strike?

Here. —— voorschoten. you might go to see in the distance some of the overhead lines are also down and around here you can see the emergency workers, the investigators, crash site investigators, crash site investigators, are already at work. and just behind them some of the local people who rushed to help. so there were 50 people on board this train. it was 325 local time, 125 gmt. according to investigators so far it looks as though a small crane that was working on a construction site had gone onto the track and two of the tracks were already closed for work but it looks like this has ob...

Is at the scene of the crash. you can see this is the exact spot where the train derails. one of the carriages has gone down the embankment. an overhead power line has fallen on top of the other. if ijust spin the camera around, you can see in the distance there, emergency teams trying to establish how best to remove this wreckage. the dutch king willem—alexander visited the site earlier. he has also paid his condolences to those affected. the dutch prime minister also tweeted his, he said, a terrible train accident. his thoughts are with the relatives and all of the victims. it was 3:25 in ...

But i do hope that the relatively generous offer, is almost £500 mammon for any driver to come in —— minimum, that is a very fair offer and that's why i really am calling on mick whelan and has to move on this issue and perhaps actually asked the driver what they think, conduct a ballot of all the drivers on trans pennine and if they want to start doing overtime and the terms offer, than to accept the agreement rather than to their original officials making the decision on behalf of my drivers. 50 officials making the decision on behalf of my drivers.— officials making the decision on b...