The European Parliament yesterday (7 October) backed visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen area for Albanian and Bosnian citizens, setting the EU assembly on a collision course with France, which opposes the proposal following its controversial crackdown on illegal Roma camps.

The cost of providing free bus travel for the elderly is Scotland is on course to spiral to more than half a billion pounds per year despite little evidence the scheme is achieving its objectives, an official report concluded today.

The European Commission is due to offer visa-free travel to the citizens of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro this week, triggering criticism of the plan's alleged inconsistencies and bias against Muslim minorities in the Western Balkans.

There will be no free New Year's Eve rail travel for the first time in six years after Boris Johnson scrapped the scheme which has been running since 2003. Labour's deputy leader on the London Assembly, John Biggs, described the Mayor's decision as "Scrooge-like” and pointed to the bumper £17m paid out by TfL in bonuses. Since 2003 Londoners have enjoyed free travel on b...

MPs are enjoying free first class rail travel and other lavish corporate gifts including days at the races.

FREE Scotland-wide bus travel for over sixties and the disabled should be reviewed because of its escalating cost and unclear impact, public spending watchdogs reported today.

The Labour AM for Wrexham, Lesley Griffiths, is calling on the Welsh Assembly Government to help boost the tourist industry in Wales, by offering free travel to EU tourists for a one-off, three month period this summer in a bid to attract visitors to the country. The AM has written to the Welsh Assembly Government with her suggestion that free travel for EU tourists should be considered right acro...

From Old Holborn: Our membership allows us to live, work and travel across Europe and to receive free medical care if we fall sick on holiday... How cool is that? I'm only paying our masters £678 per year medical insurance to travel to Greece. Where I never travel .( I usually get my travel insurance for £38 a year from Flexicover.net, but what do I know?)

TRAIN passengers are being offered the chance to win a year's free travel for themselves and their family.

Boris Johnson will start the new year by playing the role of Scrooge – axing free rail travel home for new year revellers and shortening the midnight fireworks display by a quarter. For the first time since 2003 rail passengers will pay to travel home during the new year festivities, even though tube and bus users will go free – unfairly hitting Londoners in parts of the capital not se...