@NicholasHellen profile picture
Nicholas Hellen @NicholasHellen

Transport Editor, Sunday Times. Himalayan first ascensionist. Cycling, history. Contact me in confidence w/ story tips nicholas.hellen@sunday-times.co.uk

Joined January 2012
  • Tweets 2,275
  • Following 2,139
  • Followers 4,885
494 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Nicholas Hellen@NicholasHellen
31 Dec 2023
With Ulez looming, we went car free 12 months ago and the sky didn't fall in. Granted, we live in London, but we've saved £2k and 1.5 tonnes of carbon emissions and it's barely affected our lives. Here's how we did it thetimes.co.uk/article/my-ye…

A year without a car (by the Sunday Times transport editor)

When his trusty VW Passat fell victim to Ulez, Nicholas Hellen gave it all up. Here’s how it went

thetimes.com
383
85
645
171,107
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
George Arbuthnott@Arbuthnott
2 Nov 2024
REVEALED: The King and Prince William are funding their private lifestyles by secretly levying millions of pounds a year of charges from the armed forces, the NHS, state schools, charities, mining companies and the general public. thetimes.com/uk/royal-family…

Revealed: the property empires that make Charles and William millions

The Sunday Times has uncovered every plot of land owned by the ancient Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and the business deals with the NHS, schools and military that help fund the royals

thetimes.com
176
1,009
2,332
1,536,710
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Stewart Purvis@StewartPurvis
20 Oct 2024
‘She could have become a female Philby’. A blog at profpurvis.com on my research with @f2first about Jenifer Hart which is the basis of the Sunday Times story.
2
3
1,090
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Stewart Purvis@StewartPurvis
20 Oct 2024
I’ve written a blog about the research I did with @f2first which led to this article by @NicholasHellen. It’s at profpurvis.com

ProfPurvis

making some sense of media

profpurvis.com
Dr. Dan Lomas@Sandbagger_01
20 Oct 2024
Unearthed MI5 files reveal how Jenifer Hart’s commitment to communism led her to abandon friends and lovers thetimes.com/uk/history/arti…
2
4
1,426
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Becky Barrow@beckymbarrow
20 Oct 2024
Yes, yes, yes to changing the rules on teenage driver’s licences, like many other countries. A teenager in the driver’s seat with several young friends in the car…..terrifies me. ⁦@NicholasHellen⁩ thetimes.com/article/bbfb5de…
1
766
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
caroline wheeler
@cazjwheeler
28 Sep 2024
Breaking: Rosie Duffield quits Labour with blast at Starmer’s “staggering hypocrisy” over freebies row. thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

Rosie Duffield: Sleaze, nepotism and greed — why I’ve quit Labour

In her resignation letter, the MP lambasts Sir Keir Starmer for the ‘staggering hypocrisy’ of accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping winter fuel payments

thetimes.com
41
46
170
277,559
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Mr Pothole@mrpotholeuk
10 Aug 2024
Great article in @thetimes by @NicholasHellen on @Stanthe_app. Free AI road surveying app for a mobile the public can use. To highlight the awful condition of our roads. Data so far, estimates there's 11.5m potholes/defects on UK roads thetimes.com/uk/transport/ar…

UK potholes mapped: the app powered by 10,000 drivers

Seven million photos have already been uploaded to an app that automatically alerts councils to defects. But the road to repair is far from smooth

thetimes.com
1
8
20
5,794
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Shit Planning@PlanningShit
5 Aug 2024
British housing at its finest - setting, scale, landscape, proportion, details, and finesse all completely absent! Via @upthebrewers
252
255
2,204
202,822
IT outage: airlines won’t need to pay compensation for flight disruption says ⁦@UK_CAA⁩, the watchdog tasked with protecting passenger rights (airlines will have to reimburse food, hotel, transport expenses) ⁦@ThePCAgency⁩ ⁦@LouHaigh⁩ thetimes.com/article/36f83fb…
807
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Felix Lowe@saddleblaze
8 Jul 2024
This dreamy photo of Evenepoel, Pogacar and Vingegaard on the gravel yesterday by @therussellellis is a thing of beauty 🚴‍♂️🌤️🚴‍♂️☁️🚴‍♂️😍 #TDF2024 cyclingimages.co.uk/6xz7933i…
23
181
2,406
178,158
A £1.2bn upgrade of East Coast Main Line was supposed to slash journey times from London to Edinburgh to 4 hours to woo air passengers. More than two years on, the rail industry has still not agreed a new timetable. We'll have to wait until June or Dec '25 tinyurl.com/36z3y93j

12
12
60
8,452
"Smile and the world smiles with you"- that's why we have emoji-style signs on the road, to "nudge" motorists into observing the speed limit. But some signs no longer display speed of worst offenders because some are deliberately speeding up instead tinyurl.com/mwpsfaju

1
2
776
For this weekend only, the paywall is lifted on the Times and Sunday Times website to show you what you're missing. A trove of brilliant journalism from @thetimes archive is free. Take a look right now
1
499
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern
8 Jun 2024
Working for The Sunday Times is my dream job. But the real privilege is working with the best journalists on Fleet Street. But how many do you follow and read? With @thetimes paywall down this weekend let me introduce you to the best of the best 🧵 1/n

ALT The West Wing John Spencer GIF

5
33
135
97,540
The pockmarked, potholed roads of Britain have become a metaphor for the state of the country, so how come Blackpool,until recently ranked most deprived, has led the way in fixing them? Clue: Resurface the worst roads, stop firefighting, intervene early tinyurl.com/3fwcphjy
2
624
From 6 July, 90% of new cars on sale in Britain will cajole drivers breaking the speed limit to slow down The government chose not to follow the EU in making #ISA mandatory- but few car brands will find it worthwhile to strip out the software for GB tinyurl.com/ypnu99du

2
2
16
9,408
Nicholas Hellen retweeted
Iain Cameron
@theiaincameron
6 Mar 2024
A tremendous example of how snow can build up to such exceptional depths on the Ben. I’ve seen 15m drifts in August near this location.

0:33
16
37
307
24,929
Almost 1,800 @ADLbus electric buses recalled by operators in London, Leeds Manchester because of fire risk warning from @DVSAgovuk After a series of intense blazes in January this is a serious setback to plans to electrify our bus fleets @LeighDay_Law tinyurl.com/33u3rmvt
1,003
Carmakers have been pushing touchscreens which force motorists to take eyes off road for basic driving tasks Now new safety rules from @EuroNCAP require trad controls for indicators, hazard lights, horn, windscreen wipers, eCall SOS @AAPresident @SMMT tinyurl.com/3bv8b3nu

Car industry told to dial back use of touchscreens

Drivers are often forced to look away from the road to access basic driving functions

thetimes.com
3
6
1,003
The first black woman to be ordained by C of E fights to keep her job after church tried to bring in mainly white leadership to replace her and parish council Yvonne Clarke spoke to me about the racist abuse she has suffered in 7 year saga @LeighDay_Law tinyurl.com/yufn5tna

First black female deacon in fight to keep job and parish

Yvonne Clarke suffered racist abuse in the street during a long dispute with the Diocese of Southwark, which intends to dissolve her parish in Croydon. Her case has been referred to the privy council

thetimes.com
1
544
The airspace above 20 of our busiest airports is being changed to create 25 mile "motorways of the sky". It should save time, fuel and reduce noise under some flight paths but risks blight under new routes @CAGNE_GATWICK @HACAN1 @UK_CAA @The_AEF tinyurl.com/2e4eehpw

3
5
7
2,444
Load more