Politics

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn today condemns the Government’s approach to the Northern Powerhouse as a “cruel joke”.

Investment to narrow the North-South divide will not come without putting “the right ministers” inside 10 and 11 Downing Street this month, the veteran Conservative Lord Heseltine has said.

TRANSPORT Secretary Chris Grayling says there will be no further delays to the introduction of new Azuma trains on the East Coast Main Line.

CALLS by backbench MPs for the Power Up The North campaign to be debated in Parliament have been backed in principle by a Cabinet minister.

WHO’D want to work in TV? Almost no one, apparently, if it involves the prospect of moving to Yorkshire.

Progress in Wakefield's inadequate children's services is too slow and chances are still being missed to protect vulnerable children, Ofsted has said.

The Northern Powerhouse Minister has demanded a Cabinet role in the next Government and said he will use his seat at the top table to take on the Treasury over investment in the North.

The North must be placed at the front of the queue for public investment for at least the next 25 years, if the wealth gap with the prosperous south-east is to be narrowed, one of the region’s leading politicians has said.

A senior politician in Leeds has called for more to be done to combat nuisance off-road bikers in the city.

A woman who contracted hepatitis C was told by her mother that it would be better to kill herself than go through treatment, an inquiry has heard.

Britain has been “decoupled” into three nations, with the North of England increasingly separated economically from London and the prosperous south-east, a conference of business and political leaders heard yesterday.

The deputy leader of Leeds City Council has claimed some of the city’s private rented houses rank among “the worst living conditions she had ever seen”.

Welcome to Yorkshire does not intend to publish the full versions of two independent inquiries into expenses claims and bullying allegations, with the embattled tourism agency instead planning to make public “a report outlining the key themes, findings and recommendations” from the investigations that are due to be completed this month.

A Hull man has told how he felt "lied to" by the health service he was brought up to trust after finding out years later that blood transfusions he needed as a child may have infected him with hepatitis C.

The costs of schools in Leeds maintained by private companies makes for “worrying reading” according to one Leeds councillor.

Ever since 1837, when Charlotte Brontë was informed by the poet laureate that “literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life and ought not to be”, the lot of a female writer has been an uneven one.