Commuters offered words of wisdom

LONDON: The next train is for Heathrow Airport, via Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus - and spiritual enlightenment.

London commuters are being offered the words of great thinkers including Shakespeare, Gandhi and Einstein to enliven their sometimes dull journeys on the city's Tube.

Subway drivers have been given a book of profound sayings, which they are being encouraged to dispense over the intercom, subway operator Transport for London said yesterday.