Millions struggled to work on Thursday as a strike by London Underground staff brought the network to a standstill for the second time in a month over plans for a new night-time service. Travel chaos was feared across the British capital as commuters turned to cars, boats, bicycles and packed buses with the 24-hour walkout by rail unions meaning no trains were running on the network which handles some four million journeys a day. The action follows a long dispute over the planned introduction of some 24-hour services at weekends on the “Tube”, as the world’s oldest underground passenger railway is known, which are due to be launched on Sept. 12. “Unions should accept very fair offer that’s on table from London Underground and spare Londoners from pointless strike action,” London mayor Boris Johnson said on his Twitter website. Transport for London (TfL) said it was laying on an extra
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