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• Passengers to pay billions more as rail capacity expands

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:53 am

  Tags: Uk News, Transport In The Uk, Politics, Home Affairs, Money, Consumer News, Travel, Travel News

  Minister says rise from 5bn to 9bn is sensible Overcrowding tackled with 1,300 new carriages

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• Heathrow eco-protesters steal a march on police

  Published: August 12, 2007, 9:29 pm

  Tags: Environment, Transport In The Uk, Travel, Travel News, Activists, Uk News, Front Page News, Politics, Home Affairs, Green Politics

  Aviation activists set up instant eco-village at Heathrow - two days earlier than expected.

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• Heathrow eco-protesters steal a march on police

  Published: August 13, 2007, 7:04 am

  Tags: Environment, Activists, Transport In The Uk, Travel, Travel News, Uk News, Front Page News, Politics, Home Affairs, Green Politics, The Airline Industry, Climate Change, Travel Transport

  Aviation activists set up instant eco-village at Heathrow - two days earlier than expected.

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• Appeal to parents as term-time family holidays rise

  Published: September 11, 2007, 7:04 pm

  Tags: Uk News, Schools, Education, Pupil Behaviour, Politics, Home Affairs, Travel, Travel News

  Ministers appealed to parents not to take family holidays during school terms yesterday as government figures showed these now accounted for roughly one in 10 school days missed by children.

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• The question: Should kids go on holiday in term-time?

  Published: September 12, 2007, 7:07 pm

  Tags: Comment, Higher Education, Education, Home Affairs, Politics, Schools, Travel, Travel News

  Anne Karpf: News that 5.4m school days have been lost in seven months by families holidaying in term-time has brought a rebuke from the children's minister, Kevin Brennan, and warnings of record truancy rates next year when Easter falls early.

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• More planes, trains and roads can still bring cut in CO2, argues Kelly

  Published: October 30, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Environment, Carbon Emissions, Transport In The Uk, Transport Policy, Green Politics, Uk News, Home Affairs

  New technology could 'decarbonise' traffic Campaigners reject report as 'business as usual'

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• Ministers warn Muslim pilgrims over rogue travel agents

  Published: November 8, 2007, 8:29 am

  Tags: Religion, News, Society, Uk News, Politics, Home Affairs, Travel, Travel News

  Ministers are warning the 25,000 British Muslims who will make the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca next month to beware of rogue travel agents, amid concern that conmen are exploiting the religious faithful.

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• Rail passengers face anti-terror searches

  Published: November 15, 2007, 6:56 pm

  Tags: Politics, Transport In The Uk, Terrorism, Uk News, Home Affairs, Politics And Terrorism, Travel, Travel News

  Security at shopping malls to guard against car bombs Guidance for cinemas, theatres and restaurants

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• Get tough on second home owners, rural adviser tells Brown

  Published: November 17, 2007, 7:16 pm

  Tags: Travel, Uk News, The Observer, Rural Affairs, Politics, Home Affairs

  The government is being urged to put controls on incomers so the Cornish can escape from 'squalor' into affordable housing, reports Jasper Gerard

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• Runway protest disrupts MPs' inquiry into airport group

  Published: November 28, 2007, 7:34 pm

  Tags: Business, Airline Industry, Transport, Transport Policy, Politics, Home Affairs

  Campaigners protesting against the construction of a third runway at Heathrow yesterday interrupted the deliberations of MPs investigating the future of the airport's operator, BAA

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• Hundreds searched illegally at Gatwick

  Published: December 12, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: Global Terrorism, World, Politics, Home Affairs, Terrorism And Policy, Uk News, Uk Security And Terrorism, Travel, Travel News

  Home Office minister and police admit 'stop and searches' of passengers were done without proper paperwork

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• European Lawmaker To Sue U.S. Over Data

  Published: July 1, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: European, Lawmaker, Sue, U S, Over, Data, United States, Paul Rosenzweig, European Union, Europe, David L Sobel, Ignasi Guardans, U S Department Of Homeland Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Home Affairs Committee, Netherlands

  A European Union lawmaker who frequently travels to the United States is suing the U.S. government for access to her personal records, such as credit card information and travel history, that the Department of Homeland Security and other security agencies may have gathered.

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