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Hitchin & Harpenden MP Bim Afolami leaves Department for Transport role

Monday, February 11, 2019 Dan Mountney
Hitchin & Harpenden MP Bim Afolami with Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt. Picture: James Harries

Hitchin and Harpenden MP Bim Afolami has left his role as parliamentary private secretary at the Department for Transport after being named as PPS to the Secretary of State for International Development.

St Albans holidaymaker speaks out about “poor” M25 signs which nearly caused him to miss flight

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
A diversion sign. Picture: Steve Williams.

Cottonmill crossing to stay open after St Albans residents’ campaign

Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Pictures from the Cottonmill crossing consultation meeting on Tuesday, September 12.

Anti-noise campaigners urge Luton Airport to stall expansion

Friday, December 7, 2018
A Wizz Air plane takes off from Luton Airport. Picture: DANNY LOO

Oyster cards coming to St Albans

Friday, November 30, 2018
St Albans City Station. Photo: DANNY LOO.

St Albans Liberal Democrat criticises Thameslink compensation scheme

Thursday, November 29, 2018
Liberal Democrat candidate for St Peter's ward Will Tucker with Liberal Democrat candidate for the St Albans constituency Daisy Cooper, outside St Albans City station.

MP pushes for Oyster card extension to Potters Bar and Radlett

Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Hertsmere MP Oliver Dowden met with Rail Minister Andrew Jones in a bid to extend the Oyster network to Potters Bar and Radlett. Picture: Oliver Dowden's office

Hertfordshire’s roads to get an extra £7.9million

Monday, November 12, 2018
A deep pot hole on The Ridgeway, St Albans . Picture: STEPHEN HARVEY

Harpenden campaigners criticise ‘flawed’ Luton Airport expansion plan

Sunday, November 4, 2018
An Easyjet plane takes off from Luton Airport. Picture: DANNY LOO

St Albans Green Ring cycling and walking route officially opened

Thursday, October 25, 2018
The St Albans Green Ring cycling and walking route is opened by representatives from Herts County Council, St Albans District Council, St Albans Cycling Campaign and pupils from Bernards Heath Primary School. Picture: JAMIE HART

St Albans district council could take legal action against Thameslink after Harpenden commuters’ petition

Thursday, October 11, 2018
Harpenden Thameslink Commuters' Emily Ketchin presents a petition to St Albans district council. Picture: Cllr Jock Wright.

Rail regulator probe into Govia Thameslink over passenger information

Friday, October 5, 2018
A Great Northern train. Picture: Nick Gill

‘Absolutely no justification’ for Luton Airport expansion

Sunday, September 30, 2018
An Easyjet plane takes off from Luton Airport. Picture: DANNY LOO

Bim Afolami interview: Railway system ‘unfit for purpose’, says MP

Thursday, September 20, 2018
Hitchin and Harpenden MP Bim Afolami speaks to reporter JP Asher. Picture: DANNY LOO

‘Gap in responsibility’ highlighted in report on rail blunders

Thursday, September 20, 2018
A Thameslink train at Potters Bar train station. Picture: DANNY LOO

Harpenden Thameslink Commuters group give evidence to House of Commons

Thursday, September 13, 2018
Emily Ketchin at the Transport Select Committee inquiry. Picture: Parliament.tv

Transport Secretary heaps blame on GTR and Network Rail for train timetable disruption

Thursday, September 13, 2018
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling. Picture: Chris McAndrew. Licence available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Hitchin and Harpenden MP Bim Afolami given Department for Transport post

Monday, September 3, 2018
Hitchin and Harpenden MP Bim Afolami, pictured earlier this year, has been appointed a parliamentary private secretary to the Department for Transport's ministerial team. Picture: Alan Millard

Govia Thameslink Railway ‘cannot comment’ on Radlett MP’s call for compensation for non-season ticket holders

Monday, August 20, 2018
A Thameslink train. Picture: Danny Loo.

Harpenden commuters call on St Albans district council to take legal action against Govia Thameslink and Department for Transport

Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Harpenden Train Station. Picture: DANNY LOO

St Albans passengers make discrimination claims over Thameslink carnet compensation controversy

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Harpenden Train Station. Picture: DANNY LOO

Herts and Cambs MPs press Jo Johnson on compensation for carnet tickets and interim timetable

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
A Thameslink train

Thameslink performance statistics improve but commuters complain of unreliability under new timetable

Thursday, July 19, 2018
Passengers from the 7.52am from St Albans being removed from a train at Kentish Town due to trespassers on the line. Picture: Gail Simpson.

Commuters respond to Thameslink’s new interim timetable

Monday, July 16, 2018
Passengers queueing to board Thameslink trains at St Pancras. Picture printed with permission of Joanna King.

Thameslink meeting in Harpenden descends into farce as BBC and ITV removed from meeting and speakers come under fire from hecklers

Friday, July 6, 2018
Bim Afolami addressing the meeting of Thameslink commuters and rail representatives.

Massive increase in electric cars revealed for St Albans district

Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Two electric car charging points at St Albans station

Stopping patterns hold solution to Harpenden Thameslink chaos, councillor says

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Passengers waiting for trains at Harpenden station. Picture: Josephine Cumbo.

No Oyster extension on the cards for Radlett this year

Saturday, June 16, 2018
Oliver Dowden with rail minister Jo Johnson and Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps.

St Albans council looking into judicial review of train chaos after Thameslink bosses grilled by committee

Monday, June 11, 2018
New Thameslink train

Herts County Council leader writes to Govia Thameslink and Department for Transport about delays

Wednesday, May 30, 2018
David Williams, the leader of Hertfordshire County Council. Photo: Pete Stevens.
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