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Rail passengers warned of travel disruption as conductors strike

A First Transpennine Express passes along track at Hunts Cross station in Liverpool

Significant rail disruptions expected Saturday and Sunday as workers strike

Electric car charging

Warning of £1.5bn funding gap to meet electric charging targets

A Post Office

Post Office workers to strike over jubilee weekend in dispute over pay

Fruit and vegetables

Return to imperial measures ‘utter nonsense’, says supermarket boss

Roads are expected to be busy as the Platinum Jubilee weekend begins (Matthew Cooper/PA)

Motorists warned of busy roads as Platinum Jubilee getaway begins

Karen Jones

Cafe Rouge founder Karen Jones made a dame

Sir Jim Walker

Walker’s Shortbread director knighted

Euan Blair

Tony Blair’s son Euan made an MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has met with travel industry leaders to warn there can be no repeat of the half-term chaos this summer (Stephen Jones/PA)

Aviation leaders told there must be no repeat of travel chaos in summer

City skyline

London loses ground after US markets open

The British Thoracic Society poll

Russia and vaping in the spotlight as Pall Mall maker BAT to update shareholders

Train Stock

Rail users urged not to travel on strike-hit TransPennine route this weekend

A piggy bank

Pension savers given stronger nudge towards taking guidance

London Underground stock

Union chiefs call for urgent talks with Sadiq Khan in bid to avert Tube strike

Supermarket shopper

Surge in food prices drives retail inflation to decade high

Rows of houses

Housing market set to slow as the year progresses, says Nationwide

Dr Martens

Dr Martens sales surge as bootmaker shrugs off inflation