Heh! Why can't our judges be more like this? An Oz magistrate has informed a habitual speeding teenager that if he doesn't mend his high-speed ways he'll be sent directly to jail where showering sexual predators will make short work of his sorry arse. According to Reuters, Brian Maloney of Sydney's Downing Center Court on Monday issued the blunt warning to an unnamed 19-year-old up before the beak...

Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson promises to speed up the timetable for reopening the Waverley line.

With commendable speed, Professor Hardaker, the CEO of the Royal Meteorological Society has responded to my email asking for a statement on the Society's position on one of its journals standing in the way of an attempt to replicate a study published there. Thanks for your note. I've had a couple of emails relating to this discussion and the position currently is as Prof McGregor mention...

A rare moment of parity between the Government and Official Opposition. Yesterday Gordon Brown told the Observer that he wanted to invest in digital infrastructure in particular high-speed broadband. Green industries, he said, would not be shelved in a recession - and he was paying careful attention to a number of projects looking at alternative energy sources. Today David Cameron will m...

Suggestions from a government minister that a high-speed rail link may be built alongside a third runway at Heathrow were described last night as a "cynical ploy".

A new £4.5bn international rail exchange for Heathrow airport is being backed by the transport minister, Lord Adonis, as a top contender for a series of projects that will follow the approval of the £16bn Crossrail scheme for the capital. The Department for Transport confirmed yesterday that the scheme had high priority among a number of projects that include a new high-speed r...

An expanded Heathrow airport could be at the heart of a new high-speed rail system, with fast links to the north of England and the rest of Europe through the Channel Tunnel

For a freezing Sunday afternoon, on the day after a huge demo in the centre of London has already taken place, today's protest was great. Hundreds of people gathered for a very militant emergency protest against Israel's invasion of Gaza. I am constantly amazed by the speed at which people have moved on this. The big one will undoubtedly be on Saturday, but in the meantime I think you co...

Congratulations to Paul Flynn, who has been pursuing the multi-billion pound subsidy to an American company in the event of a catastrophic accident at Sellafield during part of the massive £93 billion clean-up of the nuclear legacy there. As the Independent on Sunday reveals the Government pushed through the handover of Sellafield to a private business at breakneck speed because it feared th...

Liberal Democrats today hit out at the "disgraceful" slow progress of moves to enable fatal accident inquiries to be held into overseas deaths of Scots servicemen.