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Labour vows to protect railway ticket offices after Tories tried to close them
Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh made the commitment as she unveiled plans to renationalise Britain's railways in the first five years of a Labour government
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Union pledges 'absolute resistance' to any bid to revive rail ticket office cull
TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust warned train bosses and ministers they will face the 'force force' of the union if they try to resurrect plans to shut ticket offices
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'The battle to keep rail ticket offices is over, but the war is not won yet'
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?
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'We'll be railroaded into train ticket office closure by poor man’s Rasputin'
Operation close down ticket offices seems to be getting under way, despite calls from MPs warning it is 'too far, too fast', says Paul Routledge
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Tories told to halt 'too far, too fast' closure of railway ticket offices
The Commons Transport Committee said ministers must rethink plans to close ticket offices at 974 railway stations across England that will hit the disabled and elderly
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Ticket offices 'could be spared' as watchdogs want bosses to agree concessions
The Daily Mirror is fighting to block the mass closure of 974 ticket officers across England, highlighting the impact on passengers, especially the elderly, and disabled
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Calls to save ticket offices as closures consultation 'failed disabled people'
The plans to close almost every ticket office in England have caused outrage, with the Mirror campaigning to save them - and disabled rail users have now applied for a judicial review
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Station ticket office closures 'fuelling human rights crisis', warn pensioners
The National Pensioners' Convention takes place in London later this month and the railway industry's plan to axe hundreds of front counters will be top of the agenda
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Railway stations ticket office closure plan 'a dead duck' after outcry
Hopes are growing that railway firms will abandon controversial, Government-backed proposals to shut hundreds of ticket office counters across the network, after a huge backlash
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Priti Patel says she's deeply angry in astonishing attack on ticket office cull
The former Home Secretary said she and her constituents are "flabbergasted" at the proposed closure of 974 ticket offices, while minister Huw Merriman hinted at future climbdowns
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Tory rail chief told to stop misleading public as ticket office claims debunked
Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh urged Rail Minister Huw Merriman to 'come clean' after she took apart his claims about the closure of rail ticket offices
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Brutal ticket office cull defended by Rishi Sunak despite huge protests
The Tories are backing a controversial plan put forward by train bosses to close ticket counters at 974 railway stations across England - which has sparked a major backlash
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Rail ticket office cull set to be debated by MPs as petition passes 100,000 mark
The petition showing 'the power of the public' against the Tory-backed cull of 974 ticket counters comes just a fortnight after hundreds marched to No10 in protest at the plans
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'Voters will not forgive Government if they go ahead with act of mass vandalism'
The public understands the important role ticket office staff play in helping passengers navigate their journeys and supporting frail and disabled customers
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'Tories will steam in and shut ticket offices regardless of what people want'
A public consultation is just a means of softening-up opinion, says Paul Routledge
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Rishi Sunak told to stop cull of rail ticket offices in major demo outside No10
Hundreds of campaigners took the fight to the PM’s doorstep as they joined a rally outside Downing Street. They marched through Westminster from the Department for Transport to No10
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Rail firms admit elderly and disabled at risk of crime if ticket offices close
Documents written by the rail companies themselves lay bare the true impact of the railway ticket office closures on disabled, elderly and vulnerable passengers
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'Tories only know price and profit - not the real value ticket offices have'
This Government seems hellbent on taking away everything of value the country has to offer and either giving it to the super-rich in the form of profit or throwing it in the bin
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'If Rishi Sunak got off his helicopter more he might get issues facing railways'
Sheila Cross, who uses Northallerton railway station in Rishi Sunak’s constituency, accused the Prime Minister of failing to understand what life is like for ordinary passengers
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Ticket office closures 'could put lives at risk' as rail users left without help
The RMT's Mick Lynch said the plan to shut ticket counters at 974 stations across England would result in vital staff members being cut, leaving vulnerable passengers without support
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Watch the Mirror’s Save Our Ticket Offices rally live as we fight railway cull
The Mirror is hosting an online event to fight railway ticket office closures TODAY at 5pm. You can watch live on this page or our YouTube channel
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Tories egged on train bosses to announce closure of railway ticket offices
A railway industry source told the Mirror that ministers had sent train firms 'charging over the hill' with the proposal to shut ticket offices at 974 stations across England
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'My friend and I are disabled - shutting ticket offices scares us in many ways'
Anna Morell and her friend Sue both have disabilities but are still regular users of the rail network - here Anna alights on the sheer number of ways shutting station ticket offices will impact on their lives
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Hypocrite Tory minister tries to stop railway ticket office closures in own town
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has slammed the proposal to shut ticket offices at his local railway stations despite it being pushed through by his own Government
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Pensioners attack 'completely mad' plans to shut railway station ticket offices
Older people will be forced off trains and confined to their homes if proposals to close station counters are given the green light, warn campaigners
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