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The Prime Minister said the Government wants to replace HS2 with something that’s going to ‘benefit far more people’ and do so ‘far quicker’.

Ballets are typically performed to the enchanting and distinctive melodies of classical music, not the emphatic beats and supersonic volume of heavy metal. But it’s the music of heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath that scores Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new show, Black Sabbath – The Ballet, which is currently showing at…

It has been controversial since plans for the rail line first emerged in 2009.

Residents will be ‘relieved’ to hear the line from Birmingham to Manchester has been axed, a parish council chairman has said.

‘Network North’ and a range of piecemeal road and rail projects will replace the western leg of the high-speed line

Rishi Sunak pledged to ‘reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new transport projects’.

The HS2 route route from Birmingham to Manchester is to be axed. How will you be affected?

Prime minister says HS2 move will release £36bn, that he will raise smoking age by one year, every year and announces five-subject qualification

Critics of such a move include former prime ministers