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Northern rail services could be cut FURTHER next year ‘in post-Covid managed decline’

The warning came as northern leaders gathered to discuss the future of the network, calling government rail funding reductions ‘crazy’ and ‘fundamentally unacceptable’

Manchester Evening News

YouTube star projects hilarious 'dad jokes' onto Angel of the North in social media stunt

Max Fosh, a former Newcastle University pupil, wanted to 'make the biggest dad joke in the world'

Chronicle Live

North’s own rail plan would have meant faster journeys and more trains, admits government - but it was too expensive

'Threadbare' Whitehall analysis argues that while the original Northern Powerhouse Rail plan would have provided the ‘greatest increase in connectivity and capacity’ of all options, it was not ‘affordable’ or ‘value for money’

Manchester Evening News

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Former Conservative Minister appointed to lead Transport for the North

Lord McLoughlin, a former Transport Secretary, said he would lobby for improvements to the Government's rail plan

Birmingham Post

North East policing boss says no police investigation is needed to show Boris Johnson disrespected the sacrifices of others

Kim McGuinness said the damage caused by the allegations of parties at No.10 were "beyond repair"

Chronicle Live

Northern leaders still don’t have the detail behind government’s cut-price rail plan

Transport officials, mayors and council chiefs are yet to receive the evidence underpinning government’s decision to scale back Northern Powerhouse Rail, slashing its budget in half - or the axing of the eastern leg of HS2

Manchester Evening News

Show some ambition, Burnham tells government over HS2 plans

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps described Monday as a ‘landmark moment’ in improving the North’s rail connections.

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Plans to extend HS2 railway and add lines between Manchester and Liverpool

The journey time between Manchester and Liverpool will be cut to 35 minutes

Liverpool Echo

HS2 Bill is ‘landmark moment’ for North West’s rail connections, says Shapps

The journey between Birmingham and Manchester could be up to 45 minutes faster

Wales Online

Bill for next phase of HS2 to see line extended from Crewe to Manchester - but Burnham says it is the 'wrong' plan

New 'high speed stations' are set to be built at Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport to make way for new lines

Manchester Evening News

HS2: Government to push ahead with Crewe to Manchester line

Travel from London to Manchester would be cut by around 55 minutes and Birmingham to Manchester by up to 45 minutes

Birmingham Post

New Zealand to impose tougher restrictions after Omicron community spread, Jacinda Ardern cancels wedding

New Zealand will impose mask rules and limit gatherings from midnight Sunday after nine cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant were found spread across the North and South islands.

ABC News

Government's plans to axe excess train tannoys 'out of touch' with North East rail priorities, say MPs

Labour MPs in the region say there are more pressing issues to respond to, such as high fare prices and cancelled services

Chronicle Live

Labour promises Greater Manchester economic hope to match ‘pride in the past’

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells us why government has to get more involved if the Northern economy is to punch its weight. “If it was as simple as leaving it to the market, levelling up would have happened years ago.”

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Liverpool City Region Mayor slams government minister's 'irrational' comments

Steve Rotheram slams 'brazen' Grant Shapps over 'irrational' comments

Birmingham Post

UBS partners with Fund Her North to support female-led businesses

The partnership with UBS will extend Fund Her North’s network and capabilities to support female entrepreneurs

Chronicle Live

Tories face losing most of their North East 'Red Wall' MPs say polls

The political map of the North East could be redrawn if an election was held today as Boris Johnson's Tory government Tories take a bashing at the polls

Chronicle Live

North East has UK's biggest boozers who've drunk even more during lockdown - report

Health experts react with alarm to the study carried out by Newcastle University academics which revealed heavy drinkers downed on average nearly a litre of vodka a week

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Energy price hike likely to worsen North East child poverty crisis, charity warns

Director of North East Child Poverty Commission Amanda Bailey said families were dealing with a 'toxic combination' of low incomes and rising household bills

Bangkok Post

6.6m meth pills seized after car chase

CHIANG RAI: A drug courier was arrested and 6.6 million methamphetamine pills seized after a car chase in Mae Sai district of this northern border province in the small hours on Wednesday, 3rd Army Corps commander Lt Gen Boonyuen Inkwang said.

Chronicle Live

The 'Billy Elliot effect' still putting people in the North East off creative careers four decades on

Flagship report on Northern culture calls for change to how careers in the arts are promoted

Birmingham Post

Michael Gove to attend Northern levelling up talks next month

The event has been organised by the NP11, Culture Liverpool and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Birmingham Post

Housing organisation Bedspace to create 100 jobs across the North

The company was established in 1999 to transform the lives of vulnerable young people

Manchester Evening News

Cancer deaths, diabetes figures and obesity rates show shocking health inequalities in Trafford

Differing levels of poverty and deprivation have been blamed for the differences

Birmingham Post

North East property market boosted by homeworkers seeking out area

Estate agency Pattinson saw sales and profits rise, in part due to people choosing the North East after no longer being tied to offices in the south

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