Coach transport in the United Kingdom 2% in the previous year. In 2009 FirstGroup entered the market with Greyhound UK, competing with National Express and Megabus. The Birmingham Coach Station opened after a major rebuild. Reconstruction of the Milton Keynes Coachway started (opening Spring 2010). In September 2010 FirstGroup announced it would be expanding the Greyhound UK service significantly. In October 2010, Philip Hammond, the transport minister, announced that the M4 bus lane would be scrapped, saying: "Nothing is more symbolic of Labour's war on the motorist". The Confederation of Passenger Transport said that the decision, which was supported by all the main motoring organisations, had
Better Off Out Better Off Out Better Off Out (BOO) is the name of a non party campaign which called for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. It is run by The Freedom Association, a pressure group that describes itself as non-partisan, centre-right and libertarian, and which has links to the Conservative Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP). The campaign was formed in 2006, and is based in Cheltenham, England. The patrons of the campaign are Lord Tebbit, the former Chairman of the Conservative Party, Frederick Forsyth CBE, the best selling author, and Professor Tim Congdon CBE, an economist and former