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• France’s Eutelsat nears deal to buy UK satellite company OneWeb

  23-07-2022 21:25
  Deal will bring together British, French and Chinese governments in competition with Musk’s Starlink
  
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• Government offers funding settlement to keep London’s transport moving

  23-07-2022 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The government has made another offer to Transport for London (TfL) to provide the funding needed to keep public transport running as services recover from the pandemic. The package of funding to keep the trains and busses running is the latest offer in a long-running series of negotiations, delays and extensions as the two sides try to find a route out of their current impasse.The government, through the Department for Transport (DfT) has imposed a series of conditions on any funding settlement
  
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• Two national rail strikes next week

  23-07-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be two national strikes on the railways next week affecting most services on Wednesday, and many on Saturday.
  The RMT, Aslef and the TSSA unions are all striking on Wednesday 27th and Saturday 30th July, and the train companies are warning that a significantly reduced temporary timetable will be in place, and are saying that people should only travel if absolutely necessary.
  On both strike days, an extremely limited service will operate during the day, and the last trains will leave m
  
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