High speed rail operator Eurostar is launching a £1.4m (€2m) drive to lure hardened business air travellers from the plane to the train.

A high speed Eurostar train today heralded this weekend’s opening of the first stage of the UK’s long awaited Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) by smashing the London-Paris rail journey time record.

Richard Branson’s airline called today for the building of a new runway at Heathrow.

A policeman who bludgeoned to death his wife and two children with a claw hammer will be buried separately.