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Major disruption on a major rail line was caused because of a "rush" to upgrade the route, it is claimed.

Rail passengers suffer a sixth successive day of disruption after a power failure halted all services to London Euston.

A quarrying company says it will be forced to start extracting stone from a protected area of Dorset coast despite opposition.

Rail passengers between London and Scotland are hit by delays on a line that has seen £9bn of investment.

Nine crew members of a French ship taken hostage at the weekend off the coast of Nigeria have been released.

Two trawlermen are rescued when their boat suffered engine failure off North Tyneside coast.

A seabird chick rescued from an island in the Forth is to be flown by Navy helicopter to warmer seas.

The remains of a 62,000-tonne ship which was beached off the south west coast of England two years ago will be removed by the end of the summer.

Hour-long delays are expected for passengers using the London to Scotland rail route following three separate incidents on the West Coast main line.

Pirates seize a ship owned by a French company off the Nigerian coast, taking nine crew hostage.

A company is fined after one of its vessels capsized off the coast of Scotland with the loss of eight lives.

A Pontin's holiday centre at Hemsby on the Norfolk coast is to close, its owner Ocean Parcs has announced.

Engineers work overnight to successfully repair damage to overhead power cables on the West Coast main line at Watford Junction.

People are being urged to give their views on how to protect the coastline in a Teesside town.

Three people died when a light aircraft crashed into power lines on the West Coast Main Line in Staffordshire, police confirm.

A helicopter and lifeboat are called out to deal with a fire on a Belgian fishing boat 30 miles off the Essex coast.

Two people are killed when a light aircraft crashes into the power lines of the West Coast Main Line in Staffordshire.

EU naval forces force back pirates raiding a Greek oil tanker off Somalia's coast, the Greek government says.

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The bodies of two men who went missing while rowing out to a yacht moored off the Kent coast are found.

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