'Errors' in West Coast bid
Patrick McLoughlin told the House of Commons that 'significant errors, described in the report, resulted in a flawed process' during the bidding for the West Coast mainline franchise.
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Phil Marsh, a former senior executive for Network Rail, told the ITV Tonight programme that the Department for Transport "could be said to be robbing tax payers in the latest franchising fiasco".
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