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1. More than 1,400 readers of Cosmopolitan magazine have applied to become London Tube train drivers in response to an advertisement in the magazine, which London Underground called an "exceptional" response. 2. The job requires early morning starts at 4:45am but pays £27,650 annually with up to eight weeks of holiday. 3. London Underground hopes to increase the number of female drivers from the current 100, which is only 3% of drivers, believing women may be able to break bad news to passengers more sympathetically.