(1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(2) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(3) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(4) Publishing the government's low-carbon transport strategy, transport secretary Lord Adonis said the measures would save an additional 85m tonnes of CO2 over the period 2018-22, adding that the government would shortly announce plans for further electrification of the rail network.
(5) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(6) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(7) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(8) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
(9) Maintaining air links between cities as far apart as Inverness and London makes sense, but at the same time we must invest in improvements to our rail network and make it easy to use technology to do business from anywhere in Scotland.
(10) Patronage at the airport in the early years would not justify a dedicated rail link.
(11) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(12) It is true that rail travel has seen a boom over the past 10 years.
(13) Well, news from the commuters and the rail users is that we don't like it, and we want a cheaper more equitable service.
(14) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
(15) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
(16) Concluding an inquiry into the experience of rail passengers that became dominated by the events at Southern , the transport select committee said commuters had been badly let down.
(17) Rail travel cost the BBC £29,847 in the three months to the end of June 2010, rising to £47,358 in the same period the following year, during which corporation departments began moving from London to Salford, according to the corporation's latest quarterly travel and expenses figures released this week .
(18) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
(19) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(20) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
Turnout
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(1) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
(2) The same is also true of both local votes and byelections – and the electoral dynamics and relative turnout of these races is very different from a general election.
(3) Given this bipartisan strategy to minimise commitments, there is little wonder that voter turnout also reached a historical low, with less than two thirds bothering to vote in the east.
(4) The turnout was 34% – about half of that for a general election.
(5) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(6) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
(7) In the end, turnout on Thursday was a respectable 40.26%, with 7,115 of the 27,791 ballots cast via postal votes.
(8) No study until now has examined the impact of the physical and psychological condition on voter turnout among elderly African Americans and Caucasians.
(9) He also flags up that there is reportedly a high turnout across the country from Greece's school teachers for today's strike.
(10) Every classical dancer aims to achieve perfect turnout.
(11) I like that these guys have zero tolerance for corruption and want more transparency.” Support for Podemos was quite high in Chipiona, she said, a fact obscured by the event’s low turnout.
(12) Far below such low turnout elections as the 2012 Manchester Central byelection (18.2%) or the 1999 European elections (24%).
(13) Some Pegida supporters, however, expressed disappointment at the size of the turnout.
(14) With fewer than 50,000 votes separating the two candidates, turnout appears to have been key.
(15) If the statistic remains unchanged, it will mean an even lower turnout than the 12% who cast a vote to elect the previous commissioner two years ago.
(16) Although the Acpo statement today was more measured, its president, Sir Hugh Orde, has warned in recent months that low turnouts would risk returning BNP candidates and even "lunatics" as police commissioners.
(17) According to officials, the turnout was a respectable 38.6% – higher than the 33% who voted in a referendum during Morsi's tenure, but lower than the 41.9% who turned out in a similar poll following Egypt's 2011 uprising.
(18) 'This was a protest vote': Sicilian city where 75% said no to Matteo Renzi Read more While most analysts do not think February is realistic timing, the statement nevertheless indicated that Renzi sees a path to defeating the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League, even after 60% of Italians rejected the prime minister in a high-turnout referendum on constitutional changes.
(19) At the time of spring turnout, a bolus was administered to each calf or yearling in the treated group.
(20) It is worth noting that last year the average voter turnout for FTSE 100 companies was just 62%, so getting close to 90% is an incredible – but in this case necessary – achievement.