2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (541+ words) Transport campaigners in the South are urging the prime minister to visit the region to see for himself how rural areas are struggling with limited bus services. Susan Dorsett is leader of Hampshire-based group the Knightwood Valley Park Campaigners, and…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (36+ words) Visitors to Bath, Bristol and Weston could soon be paying a tourist tax, which Helen Godwin says would raise money for improving transport. Tourist tax plans welcomed by regional mayor Read more on this story here....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (333+ words) Trains on a main rail route between the East Sussex coast and London will not run in off-peak hours for four weeks after track conditions were affected by the hot and dry weather over summer. Southern Rail says that no…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (510+ words) A busy railway branch line will close for nine days for repairs after it was damaged during severe flooding in December. A burst Thames Water sewer pipe flooded the tracks at Rye House station in Hertfordshire, with video showing water…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (645+ words) London's tourism levy will be capped at 5% of the cost of accommodation, the BBC understands. Sir Sadiq Khan said he "strongly" welcomed plans set to be formally unveiled by the government later granting mayors in England the power to set…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (412+ words) Staff at a heritage railway said they were "disappointed" after three vintage train carriages awaiting restoration had stones thrown at them and windows smashed in. Vandals caused damage to the 1950s carriages during the summer at Nene Valley Railway's site at…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (375+ words) Members of Pakistan's under-19 cricket team had people "knocking on their doors" after a crowd of protesters gathered outside their Portsmouth hotel, wrongly believing they were migrants. About 30 to 40 people congregated at the Marriot Hotel in Cosham on Tuesday evening…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (378+ words) Self-driving robots could soon be delivering groceries across three coastal towns. The autonomous electric vehicles would be used in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole as part of a new pilot scheme outlined in BCP Council's latest transport plan, with a target…...