National Rail strikes are cancelled

A series of national rail strikes that was due to seriously disrupt train services has been called off by the RMT union, although without enough notice to avoid serious disruption on Saturday. The RMT says that it has suspended planned strikes on Nov 5th, 7th and 9th and will now enter into a period of intensive negotiations with Network Rail and the train operating companies.The RMT says that it has secured “unconditional talks on Network Rail and the promise of an offer from the train op