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Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 13:55 15 Oct 2025
 
- Reports of sexual offences on trains up by a third since 2015
[3 hours old]: A BBC investigation reveals a 37% increase in reports of sexual offences across England, Scotland and Wales.

- Bowen: Trump's role in Gaza ceasefire was decisive, but not a roadmap to peace
[6 hours old]: Trump's Middle East visit was a victory lap - but peace does not emerge just because a president decides it.

* 'Father of our democracy': Kenya's Raila Odinga dies in India aged 80
[1 hours old]: Odinga unsuccessfully ran for the presidency five times but shared power several times.

. How will the EU's new border system work?
[77 hours old]: The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

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and in other news ...

* Reeves says she is looking at tax rises ahead of Budget
[0 hours old]: The chancellor also said she was considering further measures on public spending, in a bid to put the UK's finances on a firmer footing.

* Vets must publish prices so pet owners not overcharged, watchdog says
[0 hours old]: Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.

* D'Angelo: The pioneer who charted a new course for soul music
[0 hours old]: The singer, who has died aged 51, was credited with creating the album that became the genre's blueprint.

- Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025
[13 hours old]: Photographer Wim van den Heever got the winning shot beside an abandoned diamond mining settlement.

* Man guilty of murdering girlfriend in hot tub
[0 hours old]: Aren Pearson stabbed fellow Canadian Claire Leveque, 24, to death at his mother's home in 2023.

- Stephen Graham hopes father-son book will 'continue the message of Adolescence'
[3 hours old]: Graham is asking dads for their experiences raising sons for an upcoming book of letters.

* Asylum hotel a 'feeding ground for unrest', High Court told
[1 hours old]: Lawyers for a council are trying to stop The Bell Hotel in Epping from housing asylum seekers.

* UK must prepare for 2C rise in global warming by 2050, government warned
[1 hours old]: The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

* 'Time to begin healing together': Israeli hostage couple reunited after 738 days
[0 hours old]: Avinatan Or and Noa Argamani were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on 7 October2023 but held in separate locations.

- Trump demands Hamas disarm, as group moves against 'collaborators' in Gaza
[3 hours old]: BBC Verify analyses footage of Hamas fighters in Gaza, including one of an execution in the centre of Gaza City.

- Which celebrity Traitor are you? Take our quiz to find out
[13 hours old]: Many of us like to think we could handle the pressure of being a traitor, so choose the tactics you'd deploy.

- I said goodnight to my mum's ashes for five months, then I found out it wasn't her
[7 hours old]: Brian Allison says an unexplained mix-up with his mother's ashes tormented his late sister as she battled cancer.

- AI couldn't picture a woman like me - until now
[13 hours old]: Paralympic swimmer Jess Smith, says representation means being seen as part of the AI world that's being built.

- 'I never used the word retirement' - Daniel Day-Lewis is back on screen after a seven-year break
[4 hours old]: The three-time Oscar winner appears in the family drama Anemone, his first film since 2017's Phantom Thread.

- How singing with other mums is helping women with postnatal depression
[13 hours old]: New research suggests singing can be clinically effective at treating the symptoms and cost effective for the NHS.

- Mum grows 58-stone pumpkin and squashes son's effort
[7 hours old]: Frances Crickmore "spoilt" her "flea-bitten" plant with manure and water to produce the whopper.

- Royal Mail fined £21m after missing post delivery targets
[2 hours old]: It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

- Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16
[6 hours old]: The dead have been burned beyond recognition and officials have warned that the toll could rise.

- British social media star 'Big John' detained in Australia over visa
[5 hours old]: Fisher says his visa is "legit" but that authorities were unhappy he would be working while in the country.

- Bitcoin worth bn seized in US-UK crackdown on alleged scammers
[9 hours old]: The UK has also frozen assets linked to the alleged scammers, including a £100m London office building.

- Paratici returns to Spurs after 30-month Fifa ban
[2 hours old]: Tottenham Hotspur announce that Fabio Paratici will return to his role of sporting director two-and-a-half years after he was banned by Fifa.

- England's Ford turned down R360 to stay at Sale
[1 hours old]: England fly-half George Ford turns down R360 to sign a new three-year contract with Prem side Sale Sharks.

* People remembering Ryder Cup for 'wrong reason'
[0 hours old]: Rory McIlroy says he wants to "shift the narrative" after claiming people are remembering Europe's Ryder Cup win in New York last month for the "wrong reason".

- Football, fashion & the rise of the replica shirt
[2 hours old]: How football shirts have evolved from one kit per club per season, with simple designs, to fashion statements.

* 'Where on earth do they go from here?' - England's wicket woe
[1 hours old]: England are in big trouble as they lose their first six wickets for just 57 runs against Pakistan at the Women's Cricket World Cup.

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[8 hours old]: Think you can work out where's hotter and colder than you today? Find out by playing our game

- Royal Mail fined £21m after nearly a quarter of first-class post was late
[2 hours old]: It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

* Legal challenge begins against Gatwick expansion
[0 hours old]: Campaign group CAGNE wants to stop the construction of a second operating runway at London Gatwick.

* Post-Brexit rules mean Northern Ireland customers pay more – catering boss
[0 hours old]: Andrew Lynas' comments come as a House of Lords committee finds the Windsor Framework is "impossible to navigate".

- Trump says US will not 'waste our time' helping Argentina if Milei loses
[13 hours old]: Trump warns if Milei's coalition is defeated in this month elections, "we are not going to be generous".

* When is the Budget and what might be in it?
[0 hours old]: Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out her economic plans in her second Budget on 26 November.

- Libraries to host Halloween costume swap shops
[7 hours old]: The scheme will run until 2 November and aims to help reduce costs for families.

- Child poverty is a 'crisis that cannot be ignored'
[7 hours old]: Public health officials issue an "urgent" call for action to help some 27,000 children in poverty.

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. My friend Bipin threw back Hamas grenade - and saved my life
[20 hours old]: Bipin Joshi tried to save fellow Nepalese students before being taken hostage, his mourning friend tells the BBC.

. Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
[18 hours old]: The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

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. Some of music history’s most shocking stories revealed
[423 hours old]: The untold stories behind the most controversial music of the 1980s

. Supernatural horror based on Stephen King's novel
[566 hours old]: A repressed and bullied teenager discovers that she has special powers. Horror.

. Why AI is being trained in rural India
[37 hours old]: Smaller Indian towns are becoming centres for training and correcting artificial intelligence models.

. UK will be second-fastest-growing G7 economy, IMF predicts
[17 hours old]: But the UK is also predicted to suffer the highest rate of inflation in the G7 both this year and next.

. Wage growth slows slightly over summer
[27 hours old]: Annual growth in employees' average earnings was 4.7% in the three months to August.

. Personal data potentially stolen in Asahi cyber-attack
[26 hours old]: Asahi is still investigating the full impact of the attack which stalled all its Japanese production.

. Tens of thousands of homes insulated under government schemes need repairs
[29 hours old]: Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.

. Trump tariffs on kitchen cabinets and lumber come into force
[24 hours old]: There are concerns the new levies, meant to protect US manufacturers, could raise housing costs.

. US-China trade tensions back as port fees take effect
[30 hours old]: New US tariffs on imported timber, kitchen cabinets and upholstered furniture also came into effect on Tuesday.

. US shipping chaos: I fear my wedding sari is destroyed
[31 hours old]: Customers worry about missing parcels as shipping companies struggle to handle a flood of packages facing new customs and tariff rules.

. Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told
[26 hours old]: Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

. Vodafone says outage affecting thousands of customers resolved
[27 hours old]: Vodafone said its Monday outage, which knocked broadband and mobile data users offline for several hours, was caused by a "non-malicious software issue".

. Carmakers go on trial over 'dieselgate' emissions cheat claims
[46 hours old]: The trial is the latest chapter of what has become known as the "dieselgate" scandal.

. Lloyds warns car finance scandal could cost it £2bn
[49 hours old]: The bank has set aside an additional £800m, saying the number of eligible claims is expected to be higher than previously thought.

. Reeves urged to avoid 'half-baked' tax fixes in Budget
[51 hours old]: The think tank says the government should seize the opportunity to reform the tax system.

. Mortgage rates creep back up as lenders show caution
[50 hours old]: Average mortgage rates have increased month-on-month for the first time since February, says Moneyfacts.

. Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm
[33 hours old]: The move, which is aimed to protect supplies of technology, could raise tensions between the EU and China.

. 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley
[109 hours old]: Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

. China accuses US of 'double standards' over tariff threat
[49 hours old]: Beijing says it could introduce "countermeasures" if the US President imposes an an additional 100% tariff on Chinese imports.

. Paraguay – the Silicon Valley of South America?
[61 hours old]: The country hopes to build a big tech sector, fuelled by its vast amount of cheap hydroelectricity.

. How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper
[108 hours old]: The maker of Japan's most popular beer, Super Dry, was hit by a major cyber-attack last month.

. Has the clock stopped on Swiss US trade?
[133 hours old]: Swiss exporters are looking at new markets after being hit by heavy US tariffs.

. Food firms scramble to meet the high-protein craze
[205 hours old]: The dairy industry rallies and start-ups emerge thanks to the fashion for high-protein foods.

. The indigenous weavers who aim for empowerment over exploitation
[229 hours old]: The makers of Colombia's popular mochila bags can earn good money, but are at risk of being underpaid.

. The people turning to AI for dating and relationship advice
[301 hours old]: More people are turning to AI for help with their relationships, but is that a good idea?

. Hurricane season brings financial fears in the Caribbean
[325 hours old]: As islands brace for this year's big storms, many homes don't have household insurance.

. The picturesque Dutch village set to charge tourists an entry fee
[397 hours old]: Zaanse Schans, popular for its windmills, has a population of just 100 people - but more than two million tourists will have visited this year.

. 'There's no way we can afford 0,000': Small firms scramble over H-1B visa fees
[492 hours old]: Startups and smaller firms could bear the brunt of Trump's new H-1B visa fee, and some fear it could thwart US innovation.

. Zimbabwe is tobacco country. But some think the future lies in blueberries
[421 hours old]: "The future is food, not a bad habit," horticulture specialist Clarence Mwale tells the BBC.

. What is the triple lock and how much is the state pension worth?
[27 hours old]: The triple lock guarantees that the state pension is not overtaken by inflation or wage increases.

. How Milei's 'Thatcherite' economics divided his nation - but won over Trump
[24 hours old]: Ahead of Milei's visit to the White House - amid protests and anger on the streets back at home - Ione Wells unravels the paradox that Argentina's president has created

. Trump's state visit is mired with potential pitfalls despite careful planning
[709 hours old]: Months of preparations have gone into this state visit - but the Lord Mandelson question is not the only concern troubling insiders.

. The UK car industry is at a tipping point - can it be saved?
[1525 hours old]: Tariffs, Brexit, pandemic havoc... All of this caused short-term disruption - but the impact concealed a deeper problem for the UK automotive industry

. Trump's global tariffs 'victory' may well come at a high price
[1813 hours old]: The US president considers it a win - but if this all triggers a foundational realignment, the results may not break in his favour

. Labour might be down, but it's not necessarily out - voters reflect on a year in power
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