The Latest Breaking News from North

Spending billions of pounds on a high-capacity, high-speed rail line linking the North with the capital, only for it to terminate several miles from central London, would be penny wise but pound foolish. Yet that is precisely what Government-imposed delays to the scheme would mean.

Manchester and London don’t always land on the same side of an argument. Think Blur v Oasis, Arsenal v City.

When I was rifling through the pages of the latest Environmental Statistics report for NI, I came across a very depressing map. For the first time this year the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs have produced a greenspace map

The Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust's bosses have been candid about the financial pressures they face

The Gateshead based real ale brewer is now set for growth in the volume supply market

Thousands of pupils across the region use taxis to get to school - but the system is 'at breaking point'

Platforms could now be removed as part of the 'new approach'

It is reported the Caw/Clooney junction has one of the highest collision rates in Northern Ireland

The plans for platforms 15 and 16 were drawn up more than a decade ago as a solution to the North's crippling rail congestion