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Rail travellers often suffer during bad weather and last December’s cold snap was no exception. A study carried out by the Office of Rail Regulation found that both Network Rail and the train operators performed badly over the period.

The problem was made worse by train companies adopting different approaches to passenger information even though they were using the same lines. Operators also failed to coordinate emergency timetables, adding yet more confusion to passengers.

At stations, passengers faced a confusing array of information, from destination boards to tannoy announcements, which left them with no idea when, or even if, trains were running. The report claimed that wildly inaccurate information was being given in some instances because the latest train timetables were not fed into the information system which stations rely on. (more…)

The planned government cuts have began to reverberate throughout businesses within the green sector today following the announcement of cutting the number of quangos in the UK. (more…)

The middle class charity worker who covered Lord Mandelson in green custard on live television is a veteran of direct action campaigns since childhood. Leila Deen’s commitment to the environment meant that for her mother’s recent 60th birthday the family spent three days travelling to Morocco by train as she would not allow them to fly.
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Unemployment in the UK is now above two million for the first time since 1997.  The number of people out of work between November and January reached 2.03 million and at the time of writing the unemployment rate is 6.5%, with the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance increasing  by a record 138,400 to 1.39 million.

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A detailed survey taken across a total sample of 65 clients confirmed the following rationale for naming Resourcing Solutions as their number one recruitment provider.

87% of our clients say that the primary reason for using us is our ability to connect with the right candidates and the depth of our database. (more…)