ASLEF has suspended next week's rail strikes, after Southern agreed to meet for fresh and "intensive" talks which will be hosted by a different trade union and train-operating company.Industrial action was set to affect the majortiy of the Southern network next Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday with members of the ASLEF union planning to stage three 24-hour walkouts in an ongoing row over bringing in driver-only operated (DOO) trains. But ASLEF's general secretary, Mick Whelan, has offered...
