Laurence Sleator is a Homepage Reporter at The Times. Covering breaking news stories from across the UK and the world, he specializes in themes such as aviation, transportation, and telecommunications, with a keen focus on airlines, public transportation, and travel technology. Laurence has been featured in The Post, The Times, The Business Herald, and Space Today.
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Laurence Sleator predominantly covers evolving stories and breaking news, focusing on entertainment news, crime, government & politics. Given the variety of topics covered in Laurence's articles, she may be open to pitches related to breaking news or ongoing developments within these themes.
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The launch of driverless taxis in the capital is being held up as operators wait for guidance from TfL on how to successfully apply
More than a decade since it went into administration the exclusive marque returns, planning five new supercars
Before Uber’s self-driving vehicles can operate fully autonomously they will be manned by safety drivers — who aren’t allowed to talk to customers
By: Laurence Sleator
Regulatory hurdles mean passengers taking Wayve’s autonomous vehicles in the capital will have company. Our transport correspondent road tests the service
Greta Zoob’s son is leading efforts to ensure those who cause death by dangerous driving are not spared justice because they were on a private estate
Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted were all affected, and aircraft could not take off for about an hour
Hospital data collated over three years comes amid calls to crack down on the use of illegal e-bikes and for greater regulation on rental schemes
The Civil Aviation Authority has asked the National Air Traffic Services to provide a detailed rundown of what went wrong
By: Ben Clatworthy, Laurence Sleator
Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of Nats, was summoned to see ministers over the systems failure that caused the cancellation of 2,000 flights
Sources said the data entry led to a shutdown of the National Air Traffic Services system, grounding 2,000 flights, in an echo of similar chaos in 2023
