An ambitious bid to make Perth the base of a new public body being set up to oversee rail travel across the whole of the UK has hit the buffers.
Perth and Kinross Council unanimously backed a motion earlier this year to pit the city against other locations outside London in a competition to become the home of Great British Railways (GBR).
Labour councillor Alasdair Bailey and independent councillor Xander McDade proposed the motion in the hope winning the competition would bring a significant amount of inward investment to Perth as well as create plenty of high quality jobs for locals.
