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Get everything you need to travel around the West Midlands with ease, when you download the TfWM app (Formerly Swift App). View departure times for bus, train and tram, find your nearest mode of transport, manage your Swift account, find and buy transport tickets on the go, plan a journey, and book car hire quickly and simply. Please note: If you have an older device you may experience some slower loading times. For Swift customers, account switching is not available yet within the app. Purchases made for any child linked accounts will not be valid in the app. For now, please continue to buy those products and manage your account online. If you would like to set up a child account, you can still do this online. Features: • Instantly find and buy transport tickets for your West Midlands travel • No need to visit a travel shop or go to a Swift Kiosk, top-up your Swift card on the go • Payment made simple, pay for tickets using Debit/Credit card • Collect your products on your Swift card using the Swift Collector • Use our handy locator map to find your nearest mode of West Midlands transport • Keep up to date with the latest departure times for bus, train and tram · Add all modes of transport as favourites (bus stop, tram stop, train station, cycle bay, car hire, car club) · Manage your favourites by renaming them or removing them from your favourite list · Quick access to departure information from your homepage • Explore our new transport services and book car club, hire a car or a bike • Easily plan a journey and find the best route to get you to your destination quickly • Know everything about your ticket including when you need to collect and when your ticket will expire • View your latest Swift card balance and never get caught out with negative funds We all lead busy lives and want life to be as simple as possible. So why shouldn’t travel be just as simple? The TfWM app makes this possible, combining all your West Midlands transport needs in one place, at the touch of a button. Whether it’s checking a train, bus or tram time, locating the nearest bus stop or train station, topping up your Swift card or planning a journey, this app can make West Midlands travel easy. There’s no need to sit in front of a laptop or go to a shop to manage your travel needs. You can buy transport tickets in advance or just before you travel. Jump on the bus and plan a journey whilst you’re travelling. You can check your next connecting transport service to see if there are any delays. Quickly find an alternative route for when there is a traffic jam or road incident. Beat the rush by knowing when your next bus is arriving. Your Swift account, your tickets, your departure times and your transport service locator all on your phone in one smart app. The TfWM – Powered by Swift app is the smart way to travel around the West Midlands. Use your app for Birmingham travel, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Solihull. You can also use it to locate many transport services including, National Express bus, West Midlands Trains and West Midlands Metro. If you’re new to Swift, you can use the app to create an account. Find and buy the transport ticket you need for your journey, whether it be for Birmingham travel, Coventry travel, a Monthly ntrain or Monthly regional travelcard. You can then use your phone to collect your transport ticket on your Swift card and start travelling. It’s as simple as that. https://www.tfwm.org.uk/swift-and-tickets/ A card production time applies to new customers. New customers will need to wait 7 days to receive their Swift card before they can start travelling. NFC is required to use the Swift Collector feature within the app. You will need to have an Apple iPhone 7 or later with iOS 13.

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I’ve had to update to this app as the old one had as old version had been turned off. This app is absolutely crap and will be getting removed as every time I’ve tried to open it it’s taken forever to load. I’ve tried to sign in every time as it doesn’t remember my details despite I’ve pressed the save details box and not supported on iOS keychain so that doesn’t save it but says details not recognised. You can’t pinpoint your location straight away it just gives you a overview of the whole of the midlands with loads of little circles with numbers on them. You have to pinpoint the actual bus stop you want to view the times of, if you add the bus stop and the one across the road to your favourites it doesn’t say what direction it’s going, for example the 2 bus stops I’ve added one goes towards Solihull and the other goes towards Sheldon but nothing is physically said on the page so you need to check and then check again to make sure you’ve got the bus stop. Please go back to old version or get this app sorted out!!!

Awful user experience

This app just doesn’t work at all. So many poor reviews all citing the same bugs, I’m so surprised that a professional app with this many faults is allowed to be released to the public. Far from making life easier, it makes it ten times worse if not more. Even the website is out of sync in terms of information to go with this app, and it drives me absolutely insane. We’re told to use more public transport, yet this is just plain confusing. Maybe they can learn how to do things the right way from TFL.

This is awful. All I need to know is what time the next bus is. I could do that from the old app quickly and easily. No chance of that with this one! Why the need to change? Also, I have tried numerous times to register and just get blank screens part way through the registration process and can’t go any further. This app needs some serious attention before it can be considered to be even remotely useful. Take a look at TfL and the Cardiff Bus app to see how things should be done.

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Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay are speaking at the party's campaign launch, taking place in Bristol.

Ms Denyer welcomes the election being called, declaring the party is "ready" and "excited" for the campaign.

She tells the gathered activists: "We've got something to offer that no other party has - real hope and real change."

Mr Ramsay says the election is "historic" because the polling is "clear" that the Tories are going to lose, and hits out at the "chaotic and disruptive" governance of the last few years.

Ms Denyer also hits out at Labour, say people are "not offering that change", and are "disappointed by the way Starmer has backtracked on his promises of green investment, his weak offer on housing", and "more privatisation" of the NHS.

"Labour is failing to offer the real change needed," she argues.

"We have the practical solutions to the cost of living crisis, building new affordable homes, protecting our NHS from creeping privatisation, and cleaning up our toxic rivers and seas.

"That's why it's so important that when Labour form the next government, they are pushed beyond the timid change they are offering."

Mr Ramsay says their goal is to "elect at least four Green MPs" at this election - up from just one.

They start unveiling their key pledges, including pushing for reform of the tax system, building homes "for the right price in the right place", cleaning up the UK's waterways, ensuring a strong NHS, and stopping the "backsliding" on tackling the climate crisis.

Ms Denyer says voters are "excited that they have a genuine choice", saying the "incremental change Labour have put on the table just isn't going to cut it to get this country back on track".

The Green Party campaign launch is also under way this morning in Bristol.

Caroline Lucas, who is making a speech at the launch, calls it the most "ambitious campaign ever".

She says it was the "privilege of my life" to have been elected four times as a Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion.

Ms Lucas says the election will see the Conservatives "shown the door" by voters.

"We think this is good news," she says, adding: "But what would be even better news would be that when a Labour government is formed, that government was pushed to be bolder and braver on everything from housing to the NHS to the accelerating climate crisis."

"That would happen by having more Green MPs in parliament," she says, saying the party is offering "bolder politics" and "real change".

 Sir Keir Starmer has just delivered a speech in Monmouthshire in South Wales to launch Labour's general election campaign.

Here is what he said, as he said it (this post was updated live):

• The Labour leader opens by praising a voter who spoke just before him who is switching from the Tories to Labour, saying it "vindicates" the work of the last four years;
• He says "Wales has been waiting for this general election for a very, very long time", and as has the Labour Party;
• He rejects the notion that Sunak was laying an "ambush" by calling the vote early, and says: "He didn't catch us";
• Sir Keir reiterates his message of "change" and "national renewal", and appeals to families and businesses who are struggling to "rebuild Wales" and the whole country by voting Labour;
• He turns to Port Talbot where thousands of workers are facing the prospect of job losses in the steel industry, telling Rishi Sunak: "Go and look those people in the eyes, as I've done, and you'll see their anxiety about the damage that's being done by a government that doesn't have a plan, that's too divided";
• "I will fight for every single job that they have there, and the future of steel here in Wales," he declares;
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• Sir Keir acknowledges that achieving his missions will be "difficult", but argues that he has done "difficult" work in previous roles, and says Labour "will never shy away" from the work that's needed, discussing at length  his "first steps for change" ;
• In closing, Sir Keir says this is "a change election where we can stop the chaos and division, we can turn the page and rebuild Wales and the United Kingdom together".

Shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens is next to take the stage.

She says she is "hugely proud" to be in the position, and adds that Labour is "back in the service of working people".

Wales is "brimming with potential" and punches "way above [its] weight" in culture and sport, she says.

She then jokes that "unlike Rishi Sunak" she knows who is playing in the Euros this year- referencing a gaffe by the prime minister last week in which he asked Welsh voters if they will watch the football tournament, even though Wales did not qualify.

Ms Stevens says her country has been held back by "14 years of chaos and incompetence" at the hands of the Tory government.

She says Labour's first steps, which the party is launching today, are the "antidote".

"If you want to see the economy grow after years of stagnation, if you're struggling to pay for your food and your energy bills, if you want an NHS that is fit for the future and opportunities for your children, if you want safe streets and secure borders, then our changed Labour party is proudly for you," she says.

There is now a "once in a generation opportunity" to deliver a Labour government "at both ends of the M4," she says, calling it "the prize we fight for".

Next to speak at Labour's Welsh campaign launch is the shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy.

He tells the gathered activists: "The first time I ever left the inner-city constituency of Tottenham, I was nine years old, and it was Wales that I came to.

"I can't convey how wonderful it is to be here again with Keir Starmer and Vaughan Gething - it means a lot."

Mr Lammy says Britain and the world face the same challenges, visible through "organised crime gangs that exploit the vulnerable" in Wales, across the UK, and across Europe.

"The numbers of people crossing the Channel on small boats has surged under the Tories, while tens of thousands remain in asylum hotels, permanently in limbo with no prospect of removal due to the government's failed illegal migration bill."

The shadow foreign secretary explains that the level of illegal migration "takes more than £3bn off our overseas aid budget, which would stop them coming in the first place".

He describes the Rwanda scheme as a "shameless gimmick" - something which is greeted by applause from the audience.

"This will never, ever deter organised crime," he declares, and makes the case that only Sir Keir Starmer and the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, "have a plan to smash the gangs and prosecute serious organised crime".

"Labour will stop the chaos, bust the backlogs, and rebuild our broken asylum system," he declares, touting Labour's plan to create a new Border Security Command and end hotel use.

Mr Lammy praises the achievements of the Welsh Labour government, and says much more could be done with a Labour government in Westminster.

Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething is greeted with applause as he takes to the stage.

The Welsh Labour leader, who is facing a Conservative-tabled motion of no confidence in the Senedd next week, says "this is the moment we have been waiting for".

The 4 July election represents a moment where "we can unleash Wales's full potential," he says.

Mr Gething says it is "a moment when hope and history rhyme, and the UK can once again be led by a prime minister and a party that believes in public service".

He criticises what he calls 14 years of "economic vandalism" and "chaos" under the Conservative Party, saying the Tories have "treated politics as a game" rather than "a route to opportunity hope and security".

"Rishi Sunak and the Tories will never stand up for Wales," he tells the crowd.

He says the Tories have blocked Welsh Labour from delivering change "at every turn over the last 14 years".

Mr Gething then lays out six policies introduced by Labour to make Wales a "stronger, greener and fairer country" - including protecting free prescriptions and rolling out universal free school meals.

"Just imagine how much more we could achieve with Keir and a UK Labour government," he says.

"More chaos with the Tories, or a new start with Labour."

Sir Keir Starmer is set to give a speech launching Labour's general election campaign in Wales.

The embattled first minister , Vaughan Gething, will be speaking, and we are also expecting to hear from the shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, and the shadow Wales secretary, Jo Stevens.

Watch live in the stream at the top this page, the link below - and follow live updates here in the Politics Hub.

By Jason Farrell , home editor

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So, Sky News has decided to take a piece of upholstered parliamentary furniture around the country for you to share your thoughts on.

We started our Bench Across Britain series in the West Country, hauling our green bench down the harbour steps, across dark slimy rocks and on to the vast yellow sands of Towan Beach in Newquay Bay.

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On 12 June, Sky News will be hosting an election leaders event in Grimsby - a key marginal seat and one of our Target Towns this election year.

The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and the Conservative leader Rishi Sunak have been invited to attend, and we are looking for a live audience to join us on the night.

If you would like to be part of this studio audience, and be given the opportunity to ask a question to one of the party leaders, please complete the short questionnaire in  this link .

Sir Keir has agreed to take part, with talks ongoing with Mr Sunak's team.

A spokesperson for the Conservatives said: "Rishi Sunak would be delighted to travel Grimsby to take part in Sky News leaders' event and answer questions from voters, on the condition that he and Keir Starmer take those questions on stage together.

"This will give viewers the best opportunity to see the clear choice the country faces at this election."

Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard with their daily guide to the election day ahead.

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• have a phone that supports near field communication (NFC) and that NFC is switched on
• are connected to the internet on your phone
• hold the Swift card in the right place for your phone - this is usually on the top half of the back of your phone
• hold the Swift card against your phone for 10 seconds
• do not have a case that blocks the signal between your phone and Swift card

If this does not work, use a Swift collector or contact us .

Make sure your phone is charged. If you cannot show your ticket, you will need to buy a new one. We cannot refund you.

Swift Parking app

You can use this app to pay for parking at some train stations and on-street parking. You can also extend your parking time remotely.

You can download the Swift Parking app from:

• the App Store for iOS (opens in a new tab)

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