A US-based company is to take over Britain's helicopter search and rescue operations, it has been reported. The government has awarded the contract...

Road safety charities and businesses have called on George Osborne to spend more on road safety campaigns for children after the departmental budget w...

A government department has been branded "irresponsible" over its role in the collapse of the £5 billion West Coast Mainline rail contract. A comm...

A coroner has called on the government to impose new restrictions on recently qualified drivers following the death of a teenager in a road crash. ...

Sir Richard Branson's rail company Virgin Trains has been awarded the West Coast main line contract for a further 23 months, it has been announced. ...

The pothole problem on Britain's roads is reaching crisis point, highway bosses warned today. If there were further cuts in maintenance funds or a ...

Transport giant FirstGroup has been forced to freeze its dividend because of the uncertainty caused by the botched attempt to win the West Coast mainl...

The Department for Transport (DfT) did not follow its own rules over the West Coast main line franchise bidding process, Virgin boss Sir Richard Brans...

Legal action by Virgin Rail has prevented the government signing a contract awarding a major franchise to a rival bidder, MPs were told. Rail minis...

A Parliamentary select committee chairman today asked the Government to delay signing off the deal which will see Sir Richard Branson's train company ...

Whiplash injury claims cost insurers more than £2 billion last year - adding around £90 to the cost of a typical car insurance policy, the AA has re...

So the government has finally launched its rail fares review, which has the potential to be the biggest shake-up of our fares system for decades.

Britain's railways are at the bottom of the league for fares, efficiency and comfort compared with other European countries, according to a union-comm...