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Travel disruption hits COP26 as London trains thwarted by fallen treePassengers urged not to take key route to UK-hosted climate summit amid disruption.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInCOP26 attendees were advised not to take the train from London to Glasgow | Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP via Getty ImagesOctober 31, 20213:43 pm CETBy Annabelle DicksonCOP26 clim stanley taza ate summit attendees heading to Scotland from London were stanley mugs warned not to travel after a fallen tree blocked train lines.Avanti West Coast, which runs the service from London to Glasgow, advised customers not to make the trip because of the extent of the disruption for services heading north of London. Canadian MP Elizabeth May was am stanley cup ong the delegates caught up in the travel chaos, alongside a host of journalists hoping to cover the summit and activists looking to up the pressure on world leaders. May described the situation as distressing on Twitter.AdvertisementAdvertisementLondon Euston station s Twitter account said a tree had fallen onto overhead wires, prompting severe disruption to services between London and Rugby, part of the route to Glasgow, where the summit kicks off on Sunday.Passengers were also stopped from entering London Euston because of overcrowding. Trains from London to Edinburgh, an alternative route to Glasgow, were meanwhile cancelled because of damage to overhead wires. The disruption comes after the U.K. experienced heavy rain and high winds over the weekend Ntpt The language of Lux
Cooling offCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInMarch 18, 20086:00 pm CETNot so long ago, Grant Lawrence, director for water, chemicals and cohesion in the European Commissi stanley quencher ons environment department, applied for the newly created post of deputy director-general. He dropped out of the running before the job went instead to Jos Delbeke, who was previously director in charge of climate change. Now it has been announced within the department that Lawrence is le stanley quencher aving. Last week 5 March the Commission approved his early retirement terms. The 58-year-old said he would be going on 1 May because it seemed an appropriate point to go , now that the air and marine strategy are finished. He said he had no plans to stay in the Commission, or in another environmental policy job, but did not rule it out.Related TagsBrussels bubbleEU staffOur readers read nextEU Commission reshuffles top jobs thanks to workaroundApr 282 mins readOrb谩n EU fixer faces becoming Hungary fall guy ;Apr 218 mins readEU Commission jobs reshuffle on hold as chiefs stick in postApr 204 mins readMore from European Voice StaffBelgium owes Europe betterBelgium is the last country to decide on its nominee to the Commission, and it will dictate if Junckers college languishes at eight women, or edges up to nine. Sep 33 mins readReplacement commissioner stanley kaffeebecher s namedItaly, Luxembourg and Poland this week named interim members of the European Commission to replace t
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