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The Tories’ £500 million railway restoration project has resulted in just 11 miles of track being reopened in nearly four years.
Grant Shapps[1], then the Transport Secretary, announced the cash fund in January 2020 to deliver a Tory manifesto commitme…
Downing Street has called it the ‘recast’ of HS2[1]. The end of the line for high-speed rail to Manchester[2] was announced on Wednesday (October 4).
Rishi Sunak said his government now wants to make sure the multi-billion-pound scheme is part of a ‘bl…
The government has promised, for the umpteenth time in four decades, to dual the A1 between Morpeth and Ellingham – this time from part of the £36bn savings from scrapping high-speed rail (HS2) between Birmingham and Manchester.
It has also said it wil…
The Government has U-turned on its commitment to reopen the Leamside railway line, just 24 hours after making the massive announcement.
A restoration of the mothballed line, which runs from Pelaw in Gateshead[1] to Tursdale in County Durham[2], was inc…
The Wheatsheaf pub, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, where the alleged disorder took place after the match. Picture: Google Maps (Image: Google Maps)
Eight teenagers have been charged following an alleged disorder earlier this year – and police are now i…