YOu couldn’t make it up (4) Rail company takes the coach

It has been reported by the BBC that Network Rail has booked coaches to take 200 of its staff from Reading to Coventry because the train was too expensive
Open rail tickets to take the staff to a conference would have set them back some £27,000, but that to take the coach would cost £2,400
Such is [...]

“You couldn’t make it up” (3) Terrorism law used against protest

Just in…
“A hearing is pending in the Royal Courts of Justice, London, on Wed. 21st, October at 10.30am, at which Scottish & Southern Energy is applying for an injunction against Steve Acheson. The Injunction is being sought to prevent Steve from protesting at Fiddlers Ferry power station about his dismissal from the project because of the now notorious construction industry blacklist.
This injunction is [...]

“You couldn’t make it up” (2): The Blairs’ property empire

Plugs of the Daily Mail is not something you would normally see here, but some things are os outrageous that even a story in The Mail deserves repeating
The Blairs recently bought a £1.3 million mews in an “upmarket area of London”, for cash. This is their sixth “home”
Furthermore it seems that they bought it for [...]

You couldn’t make it up (1)

A story from the “you couldn’t make it up” section.
Many of you may have heard about London Midland Railways having to cancel their services on Sunday because not enough drivers volunteered to do the Sunday shift
The reason? Staff used to get double time on a Sunday. And now they don’t. So no one wanted to [...]