Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says failure to complete the rail project would leave north of England with ‘Victorian’ infrastructure for rest of the century
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Exclusive: Secret documents drawn up to cost the closure of northern rail route have been given special codename and presented to Rishi Sunak and Jeremy …
Long-anticipated deal to return into £85bn science research programme welcomed by scientists The UK is to return to the flagship Horizon Europe science research programme, …
Brazil’s environmental regulator has refused to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River, prompting celebration …
Kansas’ Democratic governor has vetoed state funds for a project backed by a Democratic lawmaker who helped Republicans override her vetoes of anti-abortion and anti-transgender …
Former soldier is transforming his land on Bodmin Moor with tree planting and natural regeneration Tripling Britain’s temperate rainforest is the goal of a new …
Exclusive: More than a third of people from ethnic and religious minorities have experienced racially motivated assault, data shows Social barriers faced by Roma, Gypsies …
Home secretary’s trip to publicise refugee policy has been compared with Donald Trump’s news management Outrage at the unusual level of control imposed on media …
President Joe Biden is heading to Baltimore to visit an aging rail tunnel that’s slated to be replaced with help from bipartisan infrastructure legislation that …
Officials reportedly considering terminating high-speed rail link at Old Oak Common in western suburbs The high-speed rail link HS2 may not reach central London, and …
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Exclusive: Campaigners from Greenpeace beam film on to PM’s North Yorkshire mansion from van parked outside Energy crisis campaigners have projected scenes of people struggling …
Exclusive: Westminster council gave exemption for Hinduja brothers’ Old War Office development The UK’s two richest people have been allowed to avoid planning rules that …
A program in central Virginia is aimed at getting people struggling with drug addiction into treatment by giving them support from recovering addicts who have …
Andy Mitchell received bonuses on top of £489,000 salary last year as forecast tunnel cost rose to £4.3bn The executive overseeing construction of London’s “super …
Historic England £774,000 programme will also feature Deptford’s ‘gut girls’ and Durham’s miners’ welfare clubs Morecambe’s infamous “no-nonsense” seaside landladies and the “gut girls” of …
The hip-hop mogul loves to rap about his roots in Brooklyn’s Marcy housing projects. But classes in cryptocurrency show the billionaire is out of touch, …
Led By Donkeys projected an in-depth “Partygate crime file” onto the Houses of Parliament after images of Boris Johnson appearing to break lockdown rules were …
Nicholas Walton gives up leadership of €2.8m pan-European research after dispute over Northern Ireland protocol A Cambridge University astrophysicist studying the Milky Way and hoping …
Campaigners say move by Cornish garden is latest example of epidemic of plastic being laid across UK The Eden Project in Cornwall has installed plastic …
A Brazilian federal court has upheld the suspension of an environmental license for what would be the largest open-pit gold mine in the nation’s Amazon …
Experts say Wales has huge potential for generating renewable marine power, yet, so far, ambitious schemes have been ignored On the stunning and craggy coastline …
Tim Smit’s Gillyflower Farm horticulture, agronomy and cookery project hit by hundreds of objections He is the visionary behind the Eden Project and the Lost …
Former primary school teacher Kevin Mackay aims to eliminate food waste, but not by the usual means. Armed with Fred the fox, he’s educating young children on …
More evidence emerges of atrocities as Russia pulls troops from its northern campaign around Kyiv to try and capture Donbas region Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates …