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The new changes mean UK drivers will know if there is an empty parking spot nearby and will no longer be sent down closed roads as sat-navs are set to automatically update short-term changes

LNER has announced that its long-awaited fast service between London and Edinburgh will launch in December 2024 if all goes to plan, linking the English and Scottish capitals in just over four hours

HS2 boss Sir Jon Thompson admitted that the line between London and Birmingham could now cost up to £66.6billion and said the budget for the project was set 'too early'

According to official figures buses in England drove 300million fewer miles than in 2010 - a massive fall of over 22% - despite being the most popular form of transport

Disruptions and cancellations on the railways, with LNER, Avanti west Coast, CrossCountry, Northern, Lumo, London Northwestern Railway, ThamesLink, Chiltern and TransPennine Express, all affected

Manchester, Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airports could all fail to hit a Department of Transport deadline to install new quicker hand luggage scanners by June 2024

More than 23,000 claims were made for pothole compensation payouts by drivers in England last year, whose cars were damaged by crater-filled roads

Train travellers already faced a 5.9% rise in rail fares rise in England and Wales this March so the announcement will come as a blow to those who use rail services

Northern Mayors and MPs have branded the government "out of touch" after they announced £235million of the ‘Network North’ funding has been committed to improving roads in London

There were 1,757 vehicles involved in crashes in 2022 in which police blamed a drug-impaired driver, figures show. Officers are now catching almost 400 offenders a week

Ambitious plans to build a tunnel to help the amount of traffic regularly reported near Stonehenge could potentially cost the site its Unesco world heritage status

A group of charities including Greenpeace and Transport & Environment have demanded that the Government does not use tax-payers money to prop up the production of sustainable aviation fuel

Part of the SS Richard Montgomery must be urgently removed as the wreck - which contains 1,400 tonnes of explosive - is decaying faster than expected, experts have claimed

This year has seen a number of new or amended driving laws come into force across the UK, and many of the new laws carry penalties in the form of fines or points if motorists flout the rules

The “executive car service” - unusually supplied by a private company - guaranteed Mr Gove a top of the line Jaguar XJL saloon car and his own dedicated driver

Wayne Smith, from London, was left furious in the wake of security checks at Stansted Airport in which he said a worker forced him to expose his stoma and hernia

The House of Lords was told that routes from the British mainland to islands around the coast were ideal for flights of battery-electric and hydrogen powered planes

Virgin Atlantic is flying a plane powered by 'sustainable aviation fuel' from London Heathrow to New York JFK today, with Transport Secretary Mark Harper and Richard Branson onboard

A Spirit of Discovery voyage with Saga Cruises that injured 100 passengers in a huge storm in the Bay of Biscay on the French coast is to be investigated by government officials

Making ex-PM David Cameron Foreign Secretary shows how desperate Rishi Sunak has become, says Fleet Street Fox. He can't save anyone's bacon

The list of who's in and who's out as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffles his Cabinet after sacking Suella Braverman as Home Secretary and making David Cameron Foreign Secretary

Experts at Claims.co.uk have analysed data from the Department for Transport showing the percentage of vehicles caught speeding in 2021 and 2022, and misconceptions related to speeding fines

Brittany Ferries and DFDS Ferries have cancelled services, while British Airways and KLM have grounded flights due to incredibly strong winds and large waves caused by Storm Ciaran

The Transport Secretary has pulled back now, but is he genuinely abandoning the journey, Paul Routledge asks, or merely changing trains and not the destination?

National Infrastructure Commission boss Sir John Armitt said that it would be a 'mistake' to sell land earmarked for HS2 in a rush after Rishi Sunak scrapped plans to extend the high speed rail line to Manchester