Virgin starts legal battle to halt signing of "highest risk" bid

Virgin Trains has started Court proceedings over the decision to award the West Coast main line franchise to FirstGroup. 

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson said in a statement: "We had hoped that Parliament or an external review would be able to scrutinise this badly flawed process before the franchise was signed. However that opportunity would be denied if the DfT follows through with its determination to rush through the process before Parliament returns next week."...

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