Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailRishi Sunak[1] axed HS2[2] north of Birmingham today, claiming it would free up £36 billion to spend on other transport projec…
The Prime Minister has committed to £36bn for “hundreds” of new transport projects across the country after scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 line.
The PM said more than £6bn of the money saved would be used for transport projects …
Rishi Sunak unveiled today unveiled plans for a new ‘network north’ which he claimed would improve connectivity in the region – after scrapping the northern section of HS2.[1]
After weeks of speculation, Mr Sunak used his keynote speech at the Conserva…
Nearly 50 years later Peter Sutcliffe is still the subject of fascination and controversy. What took Sutcliffe on his murderous path? Why did the West Yorkshire Police fail to catch him for five years?
Police task force officers searching land at Garde…
The plan – one of the biggest residential schemes proposed for the district in recent years – relates to the former HMRC site on Salts Mill Road, between Shipley and the Saltaire World Heritage Site.
Details of the planning application – submitted to B…
As a result,we have two railway stations,both termini: the Interchange,which is modern,bleak and inadequate, approximately nine miles from Leeds, and Forster Square,approximately three miles from Shipley -which can be seen to have an air of faded grand…
Rail station ticket offices at Bingley, Bradford Forster Square, Shipley and Keighley[1] are set to close under proposals announced on Wednesday.
Train companies and the Department of Transport insist the nationwide move will “modernise” the railways a…
Maisie Ryan, 27, who grew up in Derbyshire, was killed instantly when the ‘out of control’ lorry ploughed into her Fiat 500 after Oliver Knott’s ‘unexplained’ manoeuvre sent it hurtling down a slope.
University student Oliver, 21, also died at the sce…
The lives of two much-loved young people were tragically cut short in a road traffic collision described by a coroner as a “combined tragedy of gigantic proportions.”
University student Oliver Louis Knott, 21, and hospital medic Maisie Jade Ryan, 27, w…
An ‘exceptional’ junior doctor and a university student both died in a collision on the A65 in Yorkshire after the latter’s ‘unexplained’ overtaking maneouvre sent a livestock lorry hurtling out of control down a slope, an inquest heard today.
Oliver …
Tributes have been paid to a taxi driver who died following a collision near Harrogate on Sunday.[1]
The victim, who has been named locally as Masum Miah, 45, worked as a driver in Leeds, died in a crash on the A61 Harrogate Road at Dunkeswick, near Ha…
BMW unveiled an exhibit called “The Electric AI Canvas” at Art Basel this week. An extension of the “The Ultimate AI Masterpiece,” it marks the first time the virtual work is transformed into a physical art experience. Featuring the BMW i5 as a dynamic…
In an effort to help combat anti-social behaviour, and following the success of playing classical music at other stations in Northern’s network, the tactic is to be repeated at four more stations in the North East – Nunthorpe[1], Seaton Carew[2], Stock…
One of the platforms at Bingley Station (Image: Network Rail)ANOTHER local station has been included in plans that will allow longer trains to stop in the district’s towns and villages.Proposals to extend the platforms at Bingley Rail Station have been…