Boris Johnson has chosen Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to promote the Northern Powerhouse at Cabinet level after the resignation of the Minister dedicated to the project.
A long-running inquiry has concluded introducing a blanket 20mph speed limit across all settlements in England’s largest county would be “unrealistic” in terms of cost and enforcement and could also be unnecessary.
Troubled rail operator TransPennine Express has been set targets to make urgent improvements in performance following its timetable disaster in December.
The heroism of the Harrogate district's emergency services has been praised as flood water continues to be pumped away in Masham while Store Ciara batters the UK.
Northern leaders are at loggerheads with the Government over fears that its approach to the region's flagship infrastructure scheme risks undermining support for key parts of the project, The Yorkshire Post has learned.
The government must accept the recommendation to combine Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) and HS2 into one project, in order to begin to close the north-south divide, Yorkshire leaders have said.
There is no silver bullet for the North's railway woes, where a congested network, short-formed trains and old, unreliable rolling stock have combined to inflict misery on the region's luckless commuters.
