The east coast was ten year old, ten year old, ten year old - sorry ten year old track, ten year old trains - and was really quite a modern railway network, and yet Chris Green and the team at Virgin Trains actually got the performance of the west coast ahead of GNER in the last six months running up to Hatfield.

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"We can put satellites into space at a fraction of the price that it currently costs, " he says and Virgin is working with a "tiny little" company (the name of which hasn't yet been publicly disclosed) to do just that.

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