London’s St Stephen's Day shoppers and tourists carried on regardless today despite a “completely unnecessary” Tube strike disrupting large parts of the service.

Hundreds of thousands of commuters and other travellers in London face chaos because of a threatened strike by drivers on one of the busiest Tube lines, it was warned today.

Drivers on parts of London Underground are to strike on Christmas Eve and January 5, threatening travel chaos over the festive period, it was announced today.

A CAR driver who caused the Berkshire rail crash in an apparent suicide was named by British police last night, as the first tributes were paid to the victims of the tragedy.

The British train drivers’ union was today facing a hefty financial penalty after an employment tribunal ruled it had unlawfully expelled a member for belonging to the British National Party.