This newspaper will offer no apology for the column inches invested in articulating the dire need for the modernisation of the railway in the north of England.
Tory titan Lord Heseltine alongside George Osborne has lashed out at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over an anticipated scrapping of HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail
And it has been clear for some time that Ministers, too, understand how desperately it is needed. At least, it appeared Ministers understood when we were promised two things: High-Speed 2 andHallelujah, was the collective cry from people here, not simply from the fed-up commuter taken for a ride every day on third-world rolling stock and creaking
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