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Caught on CCTV: Moment Uber driver 'tried to decapitate' Tube passenger with blunt knife while yelling 'this is for my Syrian brothers, I'm going to spill your blood'

01/06/16 11:07

Somalia-born Muhiddin Mire, 30, attacked musician Lyle Zimmerman, 56, at Leytonstone Underground station and lashed out at anyone else who got in his way, the Old Bailey heard. The jury was told Mire was 'motivated by revenge' for the bombing of Syria, and that after the attack on the evening of December 5, police found images of ISIS hostages having their throats cut and a graph of US and coalition air strikes on his phone. The incident was caught on CCTV (pictured) and on an onlooker's mobile phone. Mire admits attacking Mr Zimmerman but denies attempted murder. ...read

Angry commuter, 25, is convicted of slapping security guard who asked to see her ticket and told to pay nearly £1,500

25/05/16 18:24

Ravjeer Sandhu, 25, was asked to show her ticket to a guard at Slough train station last year - but instead of presenting her season ticket, she launched into a violent rage.

'Call that f*****g justice?': Family's fury as Romanian teenager, 17, is jailed for just TWO YEARS for killing builder, 53, in a rush hour row at a tube station

20/05/16 18:11

John Breen, 53, suffered catastrophic head injuries and died in hospital a day after the assault in Stratford tube station last year. His 17-year-old killer, a Romanian national, was jailed for just two years.

Man, 29, appears in court charged with attempted murder after commuter 'was pushed in front of a Tube train’ at north London station leaving him in a coma with suspected fractured skull and chest injuries

20/05/16 15:56

Devindra Ferguson, 29, has been charged with the attempted murder of Kamlesh Ramji, who remains in a serious condition in hospital after being injured at Kentish Town station.

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Abbey to catch the tube: Downton star Lily James proves she's just a normal girl at heart as she goes incognito on the London Underground

18/05/16 15:17

The actress, 27, was spotted mingling with the masses as she rode the London Underground in the British capital.

Computer programmer left with horrific injuries and terrified of leaving his home after total stranger pushed him under a Tube train

16/05/16 12:25

Devindra Ferguson, 29, shoved software developer Kamlesh Ramji (pictured), 40, onto the tracks on the southbound platform at Kentish Town underground station in north London.

Could eleven wild hedgehogs spike HS2's new depot? Euston plan under threat from tiny group of animals in nearby park

01/05/16 01:41

London Zoo animal experts have joined hundreds of other opponents of the HS2 project as they try to protect the only group of wild hedgehogs in the zoo's inner-city car park.

Abandonded dog is dumped trembling and terrified on a London bus and then left locked in there overnight because authorities feared it might BITE

29/04/16 20:28

An unwanted Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross was abandoned and left to ride on a London night bus for up to 10 hours on Thursday night until an animal charity could come and rescue it.

Londoners are travelling in conditions that would be illegal for sheep, cattle and pigs as TfL predicts 330m MORE journeys per year

26/04/16 11:42

Nearly 22,000 passengers are now arriving in London during the morning rush hour peak - forcing commuters to be crammed in carriages with five people per square metre.

Knife-wielding man terrorised commuters and 'attacked woman, 25, on the platform of Tube station'

22/04/16 13:42

A man was arrested by British Transport Police at Bank Station on the London Underground on suspicion of assaulting a woman and carrying a bladed weapon.

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Pensioner, 70, is badly injured after young woman SLIDES down middle of Tube escalator during rush-hour and smashes into her

18/04/16 14:07

The smartly-dressed woman was 'sent flying' and left lying face down on the floor of North Greenwich Underground Station at around 7am yesterday morning.

Voice of the 'Mind The Gap' Tube announcements dies aged 62 after a sudden illness

15/04/16 14:46

Voice-over artist Phil Sayer, 62, who previously worked for the BBC as a regional TV and radio presenter, died on yesterday, his wife announced.

Police hunting woman after Asian man 'was racially abused and threatened on a London Underground train'

12/04/16 15:44

The man had been travelling on a Circle line train between Paddington and Euston Square stations when he says he was subjected to abuse from the woman sitting opposite.

Tube worker 'refused to help a young woman who reported a passenger carrying out a sex act on the Central line'

30/03/16 19:02

The woman saw an elderly man performing the lewd act at Leytonstone on Monday, but when she reported it to TfL staff at Bank station she was told there was 'nothing they could do.'

Waterloo's a pretty boy, then? Parrot spotted taking a ride around Underground station - but there's no sign of its owner

23/03/16 13:48

The colourful bird was spotted flying around a conveyor belt at Waterloo station in Central London - and certainly provided a splendid sight for commuters.

Thousands of TfL staff are being paid 'off the books' through personal firms as part of a 'shameful' scheme to reduce their tax bill

15/03/16 00:07

The number of people at getting their salary handed to them before tax at TfL, which runs the Tube, pictured, has almost trebled in the past four years to 2,300 - up from 970 in 2011.

Angry commuter is hunted by police after he shoved fellow passenger, 60, down Tube stairs for bumping into him in rush hour

09/02/16 17:18

The man was pursued by a fellow passenger after they collided at the ticket barrier at Putney overground station in south west London.

More misery for commuters as 2,000 Tube workers plan Friday strike in row over safety and contracts

09/02/16 14:27

The RMT union announced today that 500 track patrol staff on the London Underground would walk out of their jobs for 24 hours starting on Friday morning.

Tube strike this weekend is OFF as RMT union suspends action over ticket office closures and rosters

05/02/16 17:56

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union were due to walk out at 9pm on Saturday, which would have disrupted Tube services into next week.

Tories target £60k Tube driver deals as part of crackdown on 'jobs for the boys' culture

03/02/16 15:46

Ministers are launching an assault on unions by pledging to ban cosy deals for jobs such as driving a Tube train. MP Sajid Javid said he would 'shine the light of transparency' on such deals.

'Tories should be taken out and shot' says union boss planning 48-hours of tube strike chaos this weekend

03/02/16 15:18

Steve Hedley, assistant general secretary of the RMT union, claimed the Government's benefit cuts are 'killing three disabled people every week' as he made a series of sweeping allegations on live radio.

Taking white lines off roads 'saves lives': Motorists' uncertainty on unmarked roads found to make them drive more carefully

03/02/16 12:55

Plans for a pilot scheme across 200 sq miles of north Norfolk could see centre lines removed on minor rural roads and a blanket 40mph speed limit imposed instead of the current 60mph.

A sorry excuse for a rail service! South West Trains tweets apologies 650 TIMES in a single week

27/01/16 17:07

Other buzz words from an analysis of the their social media account included “delay”, which was used 260 times, “cancelled”, which featured 136 times and “due to”, which was posted 130 times.

Biggest rail union calls off tomorrow's 24-hour Tube strike but STILL plans industrial action over all-night Underground service

26/01/16 00:27

The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has announced it has joined other unions in deciding not to go ahead with tomorrow's walkout in London following lengthy talks with the company.

Tube drivers are set for another three day strike over long-running dispute about pay and all night services

11/01/16 15:00

Tube drivers are set to go on another three-day strike on January 27 and February 15 and 17 over a long-running dispute with London Underground bosses over pay and plans for an all-night service.

180 part-time drivers to FINALLY help launch Night Tube: Boris Johnson in recruitment drive four months after service was due to start

06/01/16 01:48

The service was due to start in September but no agreement has been reached with current drivers on pay and conditions such as how many night shifts they will work.

Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott wades into row over Rhodes statue by claiming Oxford would 'damage its standing as a great university' if it was to remove monument

24/12/15 08:24

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, himself a former Rhodes Scholar, said it was possible to ‘celebrate’ Rhodes’s achievements while being aware of his ‘faults’.

Stop killing cyclists! Remarkable moment dozens of riders dragged 21 coffins into the road and held a 'die-in' to protest the number of people killed on London's streets

28/11/15 08:20

Members of the action group Stop Killing Cyclists lay down next to coffins to stop traffic outside TfL's headquarters. They demand that 10 per cent of its budget be spent on cycling infrastructure.

Rich resident pays £11,000 to move bus stop: Disabled and elderly left without easy access to buses after it is relocated hundreds of metres away

08/08/15 02:00

Residents of an estate in Maida Vale, north-west London, have been left without a local bus stop after a rich neighbour paid £11,000 to have it moved.

One-day Tube strike is ON for this week as Transport for London pushes ahead with plan for all-night service

03/08/15 21:49

Thousands of workers from four unions are due to walk out for 24 hours from 6.30pm on Wednesday evening, shutting down the service for the second time in a month.

Government hires £500,000 a year troubleshooter to tackle disastrous £38billion rail scheme (but he'll only work four days a week)

25/06/15 16:01

Network Rail chief Richard Parry-Jones was moved by the Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and replaced with the controversial boss of Transport for London Sir Peter Hendy (pictured).

Fury after number of Transport for London staff earning more than £100,000 goes up from 326 to 413 in one year

10/06/15 08:06

Boris Johnson has been accused of creating a 'first class gravy train' for senior managers at Transport for London, but the company says chief officers' pay was 'significantly below market level.'

Fury over friends and family of Transport for London staff getting '£22MILLION' of free Tube and bus travel last year - and bosses won't stop perk in case workers go on strike

27/05/15 12:54

More than 8.4million journeys were taken for free last year by people living with TfL staff members - which could even include lodgers, according to figures obtained by the Tories.

Transport for London boss attacks commuter trains into the capital as 's***', like the 'wild west' and with Gestapo-like inspectors

23/04/15 16:37

In a Management Today interview, Sir Peter Hendy picked out Southeastern and South West Trains for special treatment in a rant that will be music to many commuters' ears.

Handy for the Tube! Massive £1.1billion plan to turn dozens of London's stations into restaurants, luxury penthouse apartments - and even 'click and collect' depots for online retailers

28/01/15 13:14

The highly-anticipated ten-year project will see 50 sites owned by Transport for London, including tube stations, bus stations and adjacent buildings, turned into profit-generating businesses.

48-hour Tube strike is called off as London Underground caves to militants and agrees not to close all ticket offices

12/02/14 11:29

A crippling two-day Tube strike was called off at the eleventh hour yesterday after London Mayor Boris Johnson caved in to demands from militant union chief Bob Crow.