The Ghost Bus

Every Tuesday, at 9.45am precisely, a 50-seat executive coach draws up at a bus stop outside Ealing Broadway station in West London. No one ever gets on and, a moment later, it departs - empty - on a 70-minute trip to Wandsworth Road in South London.

Once there, it waits for two hours and 15 minutes before returning, again carrying no passengers. Welcome to Britain's most luxurious bus service, paid for by the taxpayer, immaculately clean, punctual to the second and which the Government is trying desperately to keep secret.

This service, funded by the Department for Transport, is not advertised on any timetables or departures screens, and staff at the stations it serves are not even aware it exists.

The “ghost bus” runs simply to allow the Government to escape the embarrassment of admitting that it has closed several sections of railway in West London to passenger trains.

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Alleged Home Office Mole Questioned at High-security Police Station

Christopher Galley, 26, an assistant private secretary at the Home Office, was arrested at his home at dawn and taken to Paddington Green, the most high security police station in Britain.
Suspects who have been held in the underground cells there include members of the IRA, the British nationals released from Guantanamo Bay, and the 21 July 2005 London bombers.
In an operation which sparked widespread outrage, Mr Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, was questioned for nine hours and his homes and Commons office searched last Thursday, ten days after Mr Galley's arrest.

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