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An HS2 worker stands in front of tunnel boring machine Karen. PIC: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

HS2: Time to stop throwing good money after bad - YP Letters
From: Bryn Glover, Dallowgill, Kirkby Malzeard, Ripon.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander arrives at the Cabinet Office in central London. PIC: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

How contractors manipulate infrastructure projects - David Behrens

James And Leader

Direct to London and beyond: Barnsley Council reveals rail upgrade plans

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander makes a statement in the House of Commons. PIC: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

HS2 lessons need to learned to avoid further infrastructure missteps

The A46 Kenilworth bypass has now reopened after HS2 completed the UK’s heaviest bridge slide. The three-week road closure caused huge traffic delays in and around Kenilworth in April.

Labour will not reinstate northern legs in 'appalling mess' of HS2

Reeves to ‘take forward our ambitions’ for Northern Powerhouse Rail

Lord Blunkett with Yorkshire's Labour Mayors.

Government can recognise Yorkshire’s potential - Henri Murison

Warwickshire village Burton Green cut in half by massive 700m HS2 tunnel.

Village cut in half by massive 700m HS2 tunnel - "it's a nightmare"

Watch: HS2 teams move huge box structure into place under A-road

Rishi Sunak speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. PIC: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Rishi Sunak did not have the qualities needed to be PM - YP Letters

Severfield . Inside the factory. Working on the metalwork. pic Richard Ponter

Severfield issues profit warning after major project delayed

TransPennine Express managing director Chris Jackson in Leeds. Credit: TPE

Exclusive £11.5bn plan 'will give North a rail network to rival Elizabeth line'

A Northern Rail train service.

Long route to getting rail network in North back on track

TransPennine Express has revealed it “won’t be able to run trains between Huddersfield and Dewsbury” this Sunday, September 29, as the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) completes major work at Mirfield and Ravensthorpe.

Analysis TransPennine Route Upgrade shows North can deliver major rail projects

A Transpennine Express Nova train.

TRU is to be applauded but work needed to restore confidence in railway network

Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking with apprentices on her recent visit to Premier Modular.

Record year for Premier Modular apprenticeship scheme

Mark Bonner shares his expert insight

How to bridge the skills gap in the railway industry: Mark Bonner

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech in Buckinghamshire. Credit: Darren Staples/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer pledges 150 major infrastructure projects in speech

Largest solar farm in the country could be built on greenbelt land in Yorkshire

Simon Hill shares his expert insight

Councils require greater clarity on Government funding and reforms: Simon Hill

Engineers lift the cutterhead of one of the Euston Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) at the HS2 site on Atlas Road, London. PIC: Ben Whitley/PA Wire.

Attempts to get HS2 costs under control are to be welcomed - YP Letters
From: Dave Ellis, Magdalen Lane, Hedon.
The Yorkshire Post Letters

Wigan MP and secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Lisa Nandy, has been flying the flag for local newspapers

Labour focused on Nothern rail connectivity instead of 'HS2-light'

HS2 workers wave flags from the boring machine Cecelia following its break through after digging the longest tunnel in the HS2 project. PIC: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Regional inequalities need to be addressed as a priority

The former rail college in Doncaster, which was going to train people up to work on HS2

Cabinet approves plan for new occupier to reopen site of HS2 college

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
Leeds has been named the best city in the UK to grow a business, based on business survival rates, high growth enterprises and employment rates.
Michael Crossland

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, 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

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

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