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New scheme, aimed at reducing platform dashes, will see schedules deleted from boards three minutes before departureRail bosses have been accused of patronising passengers by hiding trains’ departure information minutes before they are due to leave in a bid to tackle last-moment platform dashes.Under the scheme, which is being trialled at King’s Cross, the final call for long-distance trains will be made four minutes before departure. Train details will be deleted from departure boards three minutes before they leave. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/06/how-patronising-rail-bosses-face-anger-over-plan-to-hide-train-departure-times Author : Matthew Weaver Publish date : 2025-02-06 19:29:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Grenfell United says voices of bereaved have been ignored and they fear disaster could be ‘put out of mind’The demolition of Grenfell Tower could mean that the injustice of the fatal fire is “put out of sight and out of mind” and forgotten, some survivors have said.The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, told members of the community that the 24-storey block in which 72 people were killed in June 2017 would be dismantled to ground level, during a meeting on Wednesday and in writing. The decision has prompted anger and claims that the government has failed to listen to the

The actor was due to attend the Goya awards on Saturday but has pulled out and has also been dropped by publishersKarla Sofía Gascón will not attend this weekend’s prestigious Goya awards as the fallout from the Spanish actor’s racist and Islamophobic social media posts continues with her being dropped by her publisher and criticised by prominent politicians.Gascón – the star of Emilia Pérez and the first transgender woman to be nominated for a best actress Oscar – is already understood to have been removed from the film’s campaigning materials by its studio, Netflix. Her comments have been described as