This week marks 150 years since the very first Tube journeys took place between Paddington and Farringdon on the Metropolitan Railway. At a time when people had no electricity in their homes, inside toilets were a rarity and radio and television did not yet exist the Tube was a revolutionary blast of modernism.
Almost 2,500 drivers have been fined £130 for using the Olympic Games Lanes, transport chiefs said on Wednesday. The 30 miles (48km) of lanes, use...