Ah Saturday morning – a time to sit down with a cup of coffee and read some good old fashioned news.
Well old fashioned is certainly right.
Metro readers are in for a treat with an extremely vintage virus knocking about in London’s sewers.
And of course, what could be more retro than the oppression of women’s rights?
Terms and conditions do apply to this groovy time machine ride, including some more modern stories on rail strikes and elections.
But, as always, Metro.co.uk promises to provide the most important service it can during these times: An animal story at the end.
Rail strikes
Anyone brave enough to use public transport last week will know how chaotic things have been as the country faced its largest rail strike in 30 years.
Some 40,000 railway workers walked out on Tuesday, Thursday and today, bringing about half of the network to a halt.
A separate Tube strike also took place on Tuesday and the Overground, buses and roads were forced to fill in the gaps and get people around the country.
Many employers told Brits to work from home as Netwrok Rail told its customers to only travel if it is ‘absolutely necessary’.
The National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers (RMT)’s members are striking over pay, working conditions, job cuts and pensions.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said workers want an increase that ‘reflects the cost of living crisis’.
The average rail worker is paid £33,000 a year, according to the RMT.
Network Rail claims it wants to give its employees a raise but has to do so ‘in line with what the taxpayer can afford’.
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Roe’s overturning was made possible by three conservative judges appointed by former President Donald Trump.
Boris Johnson has since called the decision a ‘big step backwards’.
Speaking at a press conference on a visit to Rwanda, the prime minister said: ‘I have always believed in a woman’s right to choose and I stick to that view, that’s why the UK has the laws that it does.’
After the overturning, Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should look again at contraception and gay marriage rights as well.