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• Investigation launched after deportee breaks free on Heathrow runway

  09-06-2025 17:23
  Man apprehended after freeing himself from restraints and sprinting across runway at Terminal 2An inquiry is under way into how an immigration detainee who was being deported from the UK managed to free himself from restraints and started to run, close to the takeoff paths of planes at Heathrow airport.The man, who was captured on film sprinting across the runway at Terminal 2 on Sunday, was about to be deported to India but managed to break free from the guards holding on to his waist restraint
  
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• Sadiq Khan said to be furious over lack of spending review cash for London

  09-06-2025 12:49
  City hall source says it would be unacceptable if there were no major infrastructure projects for capitalSadiq Khan is understood to be furious at the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, over a lack of funding for London in the forthcoming spending review, with sources close to the mayor suggesting the capital will get none of its key transport requests.The mayor is also understood to share the concerns of senior Met police officers that London will not get a substantial uplift in funding. Continue readi
  
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• North of England lost out on £140bn for transport in ‘decade of deceit’ – study

  09-06-2025 06:00
  Thinktank calls on ministers to close investment gap after ‘hollow’ promises from previous governmentsThe north of England could have built the equivalent of seven Elizabeth lines with the transport funding it has missed out on during “a decade of deceit”, research shows.If the north had received the same per-person spending as London, it would have had an extra £140bn over the last 10 years, analysis of Treasury figures by the Institute for Public Policy Research (
  
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