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Resident doctors holding orange placards in strike action against pay and job shortages

When are resident doctors going on strike in 2025 and why?

UK October 24, 2025 By Sarah Ping

A collage of passengers waiting in an airport terminal, overlaid with a departure board with cancelled flights.

All the European airport strikes planned for October 2025 and beyond

Travel October 14, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams

A collage of passengers waiting in an airport terminal, overlaid with a departure board with cancelled flights.

All the European airport strikes planned for October 2025 and beyond

Travel October 14, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams

A collage of passengers waiting in an airport terminal, overlaid with a departure board with cancelled flights.

All the European airport strike updates for October 2025 and beyond

Travel October 11, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams

Staff members from Draughts game bar in Waterloo walking out against a pink background with QR codes.

London bar workers go on strike because they've had enough of QR code payments

UK October 2, 2025 By Brooke Davies

The side of a Ryanair plane on the airport tarmac.

Ryanair warns 100,000 passengers will have flights cancelled next week

Travel October 2, 2025 By Kristina Beanland

A collage of passengers waiting in an airport terminal, overlaid with a departure board with cancelled flights.

All the European airport strikes planned in October 2025 and beyond

Travel October 6, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams

A collage of passengers waiting in an airport terminal, overlaid with a departure board with cancelled flights.

All the European airport strikes planned in September 2025 and beyond

Travel September 30, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams

A flare alight at Termini train station in Rome, Italy, as people gather for a nationwide strike called "Let's Block Everything" in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, on September 22, 2025.

Italy strikes for Gaza: What tourists need to know amid travel chaos in Rome and Milan

Travel September 22, 2025 By Alice Giddings

A collage of passengers waiting in an airport terminal, overlaid with a departure board with cancelled flights.

All the European airport strikes planned in September 2025 and beyond

Travel September 23, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams

A person walks past closed shutters at an underground station on the final day of a tube strike in London, Britain, 11 September 2025.

London Tube strike is over but travel misery wears on with severe delays

UK September 12, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

Cyclist in a helmet with Santander bikes on the background at a docking station.

I tried being a 'strikelist' in London during the strikes

UK September 12, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

People queueing to get into a bus in London during the Tube strike.

Tube strike day four sees 'war zone' for cyclists and long queues for buses

UK September 11, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

Passengers outside Liverpool Street Station, London, on the third full day of the strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, including drivers, signallers and maintenance workers, over pay and conditions.

Lime bike battles, vomit on buses and 100ft queues: Inside day three of Tube strike hell

UK September 10, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

London was brought to its knees today as a Tube strike forced thousands of commuters onto bikes, turning the capital?s streets into a snarl of wheels, horns and tempers.A video captured by our Hopper filming from his own bike, shows endless queues of cyclists crammed shoulder to shoulder, spilling across lanes and blocking traffic near Trafalgar Square. With the Underground shut down, roads became the only option, and chaos quickly followed.The strike, part of a long-running dispute over pay, pensions and working conditions, is just the latest in a string of walkouts paralysing the city. In 2023 alone, the Tube and rail network saw 25 days of strike action, costing the UK economy billions and leaving small businesses and commuters footing the bill. For delivery drivers, shopkeepers and office workers, every strike day is another dent in their livelihoods.As unions dig in and City Hall faces mounting pressure, weary Londoners are left asking: how many more days of this chaos before the capital buckles completely?This is the scene on London?s streets today ? thousands of cyclists crammed into the roads, horns blaring, tempers flaring, and traffic brought to a halt as yet another Tube strike grinds the capital to a standstill.For ordinary Londoners, the frustration is mounting. ?It?s like the whole city stops working,? one commuter told PressHop. ?I get why workers are striking, but the rest of us are paying the price every time.?

'Strikelists' use 'cruel trick' to bagsy Lime Bikes in scramble to get to work

UK September 12, 2025 By Brooke Davies

London Underground Services Disrupted As Workers Go On Strike

Rail fail, Mahmood swings, rudeness and a cruise liner

Letters September 10, 2025 By Letters Editor

People travelling on a packed train in London during the strikes.

Tube strikes today: London mayor 'shares frustrations' of millions amid travel chaos

UK September 9, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

Prasanna Callaghan, the owner of Cumpets Cafe in Buckingham Gate

'We're losing £700 a day and staff can't get to work': Tube strike misery for businesses

UK September 9, 2025 By Jen Mills

epa12361829 Commuters queue outside Liverpool Street station to travel on Elizabeth Line due to a Tube strike that has shut down nearly all London Underground services in London, Britain, 08 September 2025. Members of the Rail, Maritime And Transport union (RMT) are staging a four-day walkout after rejecting the 3.4 percent pay rise, demanding their 35-hour week be reduced to a 32-hour week to improve their work conditions. EPA/TOLGA AKMEN

London brought to a standstill by Tube strikes that will last all week

UK September 8, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

Close up of the iconic London Underground roundel sign attached to a building facade with sky backdrop. London, UK, 29 March 2024

Exact date London Underground workers will stage seven days of strikes revealed

UK August 21, 2025 By Brooke Davies