With all delays on this train line over the last decade, it may have been a costly distraction from other projects that could have contributed to levelling up in the meantime.
Britain is now desperately short of workers in some sectors. Yet our interviews with 100 women aged 50 and over show how hard it is for them to find secure employment
Despite its aim to help emergency services work together, Jesip failed to prevent in-group bias.
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If the UK government is serious about levelling up the country, granting its second-tier cities more political and financial independence would be a good place to start.
The clubs no longer ‘belong’ to the fans - they have become instruments in an ideological war between Western capitalism and the rent hungry sheikhs of the Gulf states.
Print of the Peterloo Massacre published by Richard Carlile in 1819.
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The music alone, despite its unquestionable majesty, cannot entirely explain the enduring appeal of a band that existed for barely two years before its lead singer took his own life.
An attack in London left a man dead. But did you hear about it?
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