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Tube staff call for cuts reversal after ‘terror device scare’

TUBE workers demanded yesterday that funding cuts on transport in London be reversed as a “national priority” in the wake of the latest security scare.

The RMT, TSSA and Aslef unions joined forces to raise the alarm after a 19-year-old man was arrested on Friday in connection with a suspicious device reportedly handed to a Tube driver the day before.

Police have been given another six days to question the teen. A controlled detonation was carried out on the item that may have contained wires and a clock.

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