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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves reads the Labour Party's manifesto during the launch event at Co-op HQ in Manchester. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

It’s clear that levelling up has been binned - Andrew Vine

College

Plans to convert former rail college into Centre of Excellence under negotiation

HS2 workers wave flags from the boring machine Cecelia following its break through after digging the longest tunnel in the HS2 project, completing its 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills. PIC: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

A failure to reinstate the Northern leg of HS2 would also be a betrayal

No HS2 revival despite lack of 'fire sale' of land, says Louise Haigh

Campaigners are calling for improvements to local public transport services in the Yorkshire Dales

Public transport in Yorkshire Dales falls 'far short', say campaigners

An early visualisation of a HS2 train. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

Lackadaisical infrastructure delivery is clearly a drag on the North’s economy

Tom Riordan, chief executive of Leeds City Council, pictured in 2022.

Outgoing Leeds City Council chief executive Tom Riordan will be hard to replace

Leeds has been named the best city in the UK to grow a business. Picture by James Hardisty.

New analysis names Leeds as best city in the UK to grow a business

Severfield, the structural steel group, has issued a trading update for the year ended March 30 2024. (Photo by Nicholas .T. Ansell/PA Wire)

Structural steel group Severfield secures a record UK and European order book

The Ribblehead Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle line

DalesRail service over the Settle to Carlisle line set to return

Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, pictured during a press conference at the Convention of the North. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Flying taxis? We can’t even regulate taxis on our roads properly - David Behrens

Chris Black has an upbeat view on the future of Leeds

Things are looking up for Leeds with host of big schemes on the horizon

Left to right Jamie Driscoll Mayor North of Tyne, Andy Burnham Mayor of Greater Manchester,Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard Mayor of South Yorkshire, Steve Rotheram Mayor of the Liverpool City Region during a press conference at the Convention of the North. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Why Labour may rebadge Network North rather than return to HS2: Chris Burn

Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin

Leeds asks government to protect unwanted HS2 land near station from being sold

West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin and Leeds City Council leader James Lewis have written to prime minister Rishi Sunak to argue in favour of keeping safeguarded land to the South of Leeds railway station protected until a study into redevelopment can be completed.

Leigh Jones

West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin, co-host of Convention of the North, addresses delegates at the Convention of the North on March 01, 2024 in Leeds, England. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

'Moment has gone' for HS2 in the North, suggests Tracy Brabin

Grassington is where All Creatures Great and Small is filmed

All Creatures Great and Small country gets its buses back as service reinstated

Construction work continues on the HS2 line in Water Orton near Birmingham. PIC: Jacob King/PA Wire

A united transport vision for Yorkshire is needed - Russell Jackson

HS2

Rishi Sunak: Transport funding for Yorkshire will 'benefit more people than HS2'

Credit - the RAC

‘Pothole fund’ set up ‘nowhere near enough’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with bus drivers during his visit to a bus depot in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Scrapping Northern leg of HS2 will help bus services, says Rishi Sunak

Former Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin

Scrapping northern leg of HS2 is ‘a missed opportunity’, claims ex-Tory Minister

The construction site for the HS2 project at Curzon Street in Birmingham. PIC: Jacob King/PA Wire

Cancellation of HS2’s northern leg raises questions over infrastructure approach

Phase 1 of HS2 could cost £66.6bn

HS2 'offers very poor value for money' after northern leg was scrapped

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing Street, London, with his ministerial box before, before delivering his Budget last year. PIC: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Have tax cuts all of a sudden become affordable? - Andy Brown

The view from South Bank rail station, which is in line for £40m of improvements if Lord Houchen's transport plans are approved.

Rail expert supports Ben Houchen's regional ownership model of railways

A railway expert has said Ben Houchen’s proposal to take public ownership of his region’s rail network should be emulated across the country.

Leigh Jones

An early visualisation of a HS2 train. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

Minister displays ignorance of basic accounting over HS2 claims - YP Letters

MP Jack Brereton

Northern Powerhouse Rail: Calls for 'more direct route' that is cheaper

Lord Houchen at the transport announcement in Middlesbrough station's undercroft.

Ben Houchen announces potential rail nationalisation

An artist's impression of what a HS2 train will look like

HS2: Government denies claims journey times to Manchester will be slower

Guy Opperman is a Transport Minister and Conservative MP for Hexham.

Rural transport funding transformed by decision to cancel HS2: Guy Opperman

The plan for the Maltkiln development

Council to submit plans for 4,000-home town near Yorkshire villages next month

An early visualisation of a HS2 train. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

Opportunity to build HS2 in full was missed as costs pile up for project

Prime minister Rishi Sunak (left) walks with Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer through the Central Lobby at the Palace of Westminster ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, London in November. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

I've become thoroughly sick of politics during 2023: Bill Carmichael

There will be “no let-up” in HS2’s progress next year, according to the boss of the high-speed rail project

HS2 chief pledges ‘no let-up’ - despite scrapping of Northern leg

An artist's impression – released in 2017 – of what the redeveloped station could have looked like.

Calls to revive plans for Leeds station transformation after HS2 disappointment

Rishi Sunak's Network North plans are full of old plans which were shelved by the Government, MPs have been told. Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Government mocked as £235m of 'Network North' money is being spent in London

An early visualisation of a HS2 train. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

London’s roads are getting smoother thanks to HS2 funds - The YP says

Boris Johnson scaled back HS2 in November 2021, announcing the eastern leg would stop at East Midlands Parkway and not run to Yorkshire.

Leeds received less than half its £100m consolation after HS2 was scaled back

The "final decision" to axe HS2's northern leg was taken during the Conservative Party conference. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

Selling off HS2 land would be a repeat of mistakes - Yorkshire Post Letters

Maltkiln plan.

Maltkiln: Controversial 'new town' of 4,000 homes could become 'Yorkshire's HS2'

The cancellation of HS2’s northern leg is set to release capacity and drive activity across the supply chain, according to a new report from consultancy firm Turner & Townsend.

Northern HS2 cancellation could drive supply chain activity, report claims

Rishi Sunak's Network North plans are full of old plans which were shelved by the Government, MPs have been told. Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Network North full of rail projects that have 'not been developed'

Tom Simpson shares his expert insight. Picture: Samuel Whitton

YBS Commercial Mortgages team sees host of investment opportunities: Tom Simpson

Work going on at the Victoria Road Crossover Box ancillary shaft HS2 site near to Old Oak Common in west London. PIC: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Selling off HS2 land is not ‘long-term decision making' - Yorkshire Post Letters

A £543million grant to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) was announced as part of the replacement Network North scheme, funded directly by costs saved from the cancellation of HS2. Pictured: Supertram 2 - Credit: SCR

Mayor denies HS2 grant money has been diverted away from airport for trams

An early visualisation of a HS2 train. The "final decision" to axe HS2's northern leg was taken during Tory conference. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

Golden opportunity to reopen the Colne to Skipton line - YP Letters

Transport Secretary Mark Harper speaks to media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture date: Sunday April 30, 2023.

Mark Harper told to keep HS2 land until 'alternative' rail plans are in place

Rail minister Huw Merriman and the leader of Rochdale Council, Susan Hinchcliffe

New station for Bradford can be 'King's Cross of the North', rail minister says

HS2 's Yorkshire leg was scrapped in 2021

Labour calls for end to HS2 land uncertainty in South Yorkshire

Picture by Bruce Rollinson

Northern Powerhouse Rail: 'Huge relief' as key stretch of rail network is saved

From left to right- East Riding of Yorkshire Council Principal Transport Policy Officer Katie Stork, Roads Minister Richard Holden, Haltemprice and Howden MP David Davis and East Riding of Yorkshire Council Leader Cllr Anne Handley at the A164 and A1

Busy road in Yorkshire one of first to get improvement works

Katie Stork – Principal Transport Policy Officer, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Richard Holden MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport), David Davis, MP for Haltemprice and Howden, Councillor Anne Handley – Leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Minister unveils first Network North project in Yorkshire

An early visualisation of a HS2 train. The decision to axe HS2's northern leg was taken during Tory conference. PIC: HS2/PA Wire

Cancellation of HS2 overlooks the bigger picture - YP Letters

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