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Apparently the very busy motorway, the Southbound M11 towards London, was recently shutdown after a HGV carrying a consignment of 82 pigs crashed. The Essex Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene at Junction 8 to find that about 12 pigs had escaped from the lorry and were running free on the road.
A spokesman said, at 5:21am on Wednesday morning, the carriageway was closed while emergency crews tried to round up the animals and secure them in a makeshift pen. The police, at the time, said that about 50 animals were still believed to be trapped in the wreckage, which [...]

The government is truly thinking about moving ahead with a high speed rail network between London and Scotland. This is an agreement that could go through as early as March, according to the Transport Secretary, Lord Adonis.
This move follows approval of a government-backed study into a 200 mile an hour route that would cut journey times to the north of Britain by half to just over two hours. However, the government is not so quick to jump on this new route if it is not profitable, because it will cost an estimated £34 billion to build and will likely take [...]

Despite all of the discounts being offered by travel companies all over the UK, many Brits are still planning on taking no trips away next year. Recent polls suggest that Brits are simply going to cut holiday trips out of their budgets.
In 2009, a total of about 10 percent took no breaks. However, figures for next year suggest that about 18 percent of all Brits will take no break in 2010, according to a survey that was taken by travelsupermarket.com.
The people that will be taking one break away will increase from 26 percent in 2009 to 33 percent. The number [...]

Most passengers flying to the U.S. from the Netherlands will have to go through full-body scanners before boarding their aircraft according to Dutch airport officials. Guusje Ter Horts, the Dutch Minister for the Interior claims that fifteen of the machines will be in place within three weeks at Schipol Airport. The move to introduce the [...]

The British government is set to receive plans for a new London station in the heart of the city to handle the proposed high speed rail network.
The report will be presented by High Speed 2 (HS2) which was commissioned by the government to undertake a comprehensive investigation of potential high speed rail lines across Britain, with Scotland and the West Midlands also on the agenda. HS2 has labelled the high speed service as similar to an aeroplane on wheels and will offer the government costs forecasts for the exercise that looks likely to be up and running by 2025. The [...]

Many car hirers have been left stranded over Christmas in some of the worst weather the Northern Hemisphere has ever seen.  Motorists in the UK were subject to sleeping in their cars in icy conditions due to thick snow blanketing the road, the Eurostar Cross Channel Service facing cancellations due to the bad weather that caused a backlog of up to 70,000 travellers left stranded.
Across most of North America, it was the same scenario as airports struggled with the additional number of passengers as well as the added trouble of clearing snow from the runways, as well as making it [...]

Britain’s love affair with the madcap motoring team from Top Gear has seen the show take out the honour of being the decade’s favourite television program.
In a poll specially commissioned by Channel 4 which will go to air next week Top Gear, which underwent a successful transformation earlier this decade, took out top honours as Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson were acknowledged for revolutionising the motoring industry to the mainstream television public.
First broadcast by the BBC in 1977 the show was deemed tired and outdated by 2001 when producers decided on an overhaul. At the time several of [...]

After just being able to stop a Christmas strike threat, it seems that British Airways is once again going to have to deal with the possibility of a strike. This is because plans for a February strike could already be gearing up due to a New Year ballot.
The Unite union is currently updating its membership list of cabin crew to ensure that the next strike ballot, which could take place as soon as the end of next month, is not ruled unlawful. Just earlier in the month, the High Court granted British Airways an injunction, because staff who had accepted [...]

Apparently the would-be terrorist that tried to blow up a United States jet on Christmas Day has recently revealed that there are more just like him that are currently being trained by al-Qaeda. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went on to tell agents that were questioning him that he was one of many bombers being groomed to perform more attacks on American-bound aircrafts.
His words come just after al-Qaeda came forward and claimed responsibility for the failed bombing. A statement that was posted on a website said that the attack was in retaliation for the United States backed-raids on December 17th on its [...]

Experts are now saying that visitor numbers to the UK will top 30 million as tourism to the UK returns to growth next year. According to predictions from VisitBritain, there should be a rise of 0.8 percent in the number of visitors that make their way to the UK. This should bring the overall number of visitors to the UK up to 30.4 million. This number will be boosted by a weak pound and an improving economic situation.
VisitBritian, which is currently launching a three pronged campaign to boost tourism next year, predicts tourist spending will also increase up to [...]

Snow falls across the U.K. have once again caused travel chaos, especially for those returning to work after the Christmas holidays. Parts of Scotland have also experienced snow falls and Inverness Airport had to be closed at one point. Wales received the heaviest snow in the country and forecasters say that central Wales could experience [...]

The Indian airline Jet Airways, has unveiled its latest holiday product offering in the form of package tour brand JetEscapes, a new service designed to provide custom-made travel packages to holiday-makers and visitors to destinations that feature on the carrier’s network.
Jet Airways in a Mumbai-based airline that, after Air India, is the country’s second largest operator and domestic sector market leader, with over 68 destinations and 400 daily flights.
JetEscapes will offer passengers an array of tailored holiday packages that range from corporate travel to wildlife, culture, adventure, beach and even holiday getaways. The new service will seek to combine cheap [...]