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While Londoners enjoy the new £18billion Elizabeth Line, passengers in the North are lumbered with aged rolling stock, reduced services and shoddy performance

Section of controversial high speed train project is put on the back-burner as Government blames increased costs but Labour says the North is paying the price for Tory incompetence

The Ministry of Defence holds the results of Cold War blood tests, but won't share it with veterans

Dritan Kastrati nearly died three times when he was smuggled out of mainland Europe to escape his home on the ­Kosovan-Albanian border at the age of 11

Paul Routledge on what we can expect from Jeremy Hunt's first Budget, with him set to put an end to the 'calamity' of soaring energy prices. But will this be enough to appease public opinion?

The former England goal scorer hit back at the Conservative MP after she mentioned him in a football analogy in the Commons. He is already in a Twitter row for comparing the government's new asylum policy to Nazi Germany

Transport Secretary Mark Harper has said the Government will delay building the Birmingham to Crewe leg of HS2 by two years. Labour said: 'The North is yet again being asked to pay the price for staggering Conservative failure'

Gary Lineker has left a large proportion of Conservative politicians foaming at the mouth after expressing his disgust at the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill, leading to a campaign to get him sacked - purely, it seems, for having an opinion

Trade body Maritime UK has published a document outlining how UK companies can capitalise on the huge expansion in offshore wind power planned for the coming decades

The Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding marked International Women's Day by reading a list of all the women who were killed where the primary suspect or known killer is a man since this time last year.

Gary Lineker has hit out on social media for his comments being blown "out of proportion" after he compared the the recent proposed Tory immigration policy to Nazi Germany

Charlotte Nichols - the MP for Warrington North since 2019 - also claimed that separately she had been 'repeatedly sexually propositioned' by a Tory MP 'old enough to be my grandfather'

The imminent announcement has sparked fury, with one Tory MP saying his constituency has been "blighted" by fields being turned into construction sites

Diana Parkes has asked Dominic Raab to block the early release of her daughter's killer Robert Brown, who bludgeoned her to death with a hammer in 2010

The former Prime Minister is understood to have spoken to Adam Tolley KC, who is carrying out an investigation into allegations of bullying by Mr Raab, and is claimed to have privately warned him about his behaviour

Labour claims that failure to negotiate return agreements with countries like France, and new restrictions under the Illegal Immigration Bill will leave tens of thousands of people holed up in hotels "indefinitely"

Right-wing MPs demanding ex-footballer's sacking would have more credence if they were also critical of others who have tested the limits of BBC impartiality

Football legend faces “impartiality” rap just weeks after it emerged BBC chairman Richard Sharp had introduced someone to ex-Prime Minister to guarantee loan

Piers Morgan has now issued a statement regarding pal Gary Lineker's refusal to back down amid his row with BBC bosses, following the Match of the Day presenter likening the current UK government to using similar language Nazi Germany did in the 30s

Gary Lineker's former BBC colleague Mark Lawrenson said he was 'totally wrong' for his comments after he appeared to draw comparisons between the government's new Illegal Migration Bill and Nazi Germany

Eva Simpson asks why there is one set of rules for one set of people and one for others, when we should be showing compassion to people fleeing war and persecution regardless of where they are from

Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said some of those on the soldier sick list were waiting for appointments with a dentist - and would be sent into battle "if the balloon went up"

The stark difference between what Fox News host Tucker Carlson was saying publicly and privately about Donald Trump has been revealed by court filings from Dominion Voting Systems

The elderly woman called Jean drove herself to hospital in Eastbourne after being told she would have to wait eight hours for am ambulance. She collapsed in A&E and died an hour later

Armed Forces Minister James Heappey faced calls to deploy a batch of British fighter planes to "backfill" air defence roles in countries which have aircraft bteter suited for Ukrainian forces