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 The overseeing head of Avanti West Coast is venturing down, the organization has reported, in the midst of a reaction over schedule cuts. The rail firm said Phil Whittingham would leave on 15 September - that very day new train strikes will occur. Administrations among London and Manchester have been cut by a third, with the organization accusing "shortages on help". Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the firm ought to be in the "last opportunity cantina". Mr Burnham has recently required the organization's permit to be denied on the off chance that administrations aren't reestablished - a choice just the public authority can take. "This is England's most significant rail line, connecting its greatest urban communities, and ordinary that this tumult proceeds is a day when our economy in Greater Manchester is harmed and one more day of wretchedness for travelers," he told the BBC's Today program. Last month, Avanti West Coast cut its plan f...

 A Libyan government worker has given a nerve racking record of how he was kept by the insight administrations and blamed for surveillance, composes Carolyn Lamboley. Brief presentational dim line On 1 October 2020, Walid Elhouderi was brought in to go about as a translator at a gathering with a few diplomats in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. After it finished, he strolled the Congolese envoy back to his vehicle to see him off and afterward getting back to the gathering space to gather his effects. "That is where I found four individuals sitting tight for me. They messed me up. They slapped me. They held a firearm to my stomach, and they stole me. From that point onward, I was vanished. I didn't have any idea where I was," Mr Elhouderi says. The four men, in regular clothes, had been sent by the knowledge administrations and, Walid says, he was taken to one of Tripoli's mysterious jails, in some cases regulated by the local army bunches who control many pieces of the ca...