Northern bus crisis: How Liverpool compares with Leeds, Manchester and the North East City region mayor Steve Rotheram wants to take bus services into public control Liverpool Echo · Feb 27, 2022
The real Dragons' Den: Investment boss reveals reality as firm eyes major expansion Praetura Ventures was established a decade ago and has backed tech and health start-ups across the North West Birmingham Post · Feb 27, 2022
North East tech firms help Siemens build factory and warehouse robot Gateshead's Parmley Graham and Sunderland's AR Controls have partnered with the engineering giant to target a £2.3bn market Birmingham Post · Feb 23, 2022
Manchester company's groundbreaking discovery could be key to the electric vehicle revolution Pioneering city project to benefit from a plan to invest £1/2bn bridging the North-South divide on innovation funding Manchester Evening News · Feb 22, 2022
Husband reveals tragic final words of wife crushed to death by tree in north London during Storm Eunice The husband of a woman who died after being crushed by a tree during Storm Eunice has told how her final words to him were “my love”. Evening Standard · Feb 22, 2022
UK weather forecast: Britain in firing line for more storms after Franklin hits tonight Forecasters say several more 'Beasts from the West' tempests will hit this week – in what is Britain's worst-ever run of named storms with the Met Office issuing several danger-to-life weather warnings for the coming days Daily Mirror · Feb 20, 2022
Vera author Ann Cleeves to appear at first ever book festival in Northumberland town this weekend The festival will showcase more than 30 authors and poets, many of whom are from the North East, this weekend and its organisers hope that it will be the 'first of many' Chronicle Live · Feb 20, 2022
Thundershowers, cold snap forecast in upper Thailand Outbreaks of thundershowers with gusty winds and hail are forecast for the North, the Northeast, the Central region including Bangkok and the East from Sunday, the Thai Meteorological Department announced in its 5am forecast. Bangkok Post · Feb 20, 2022
Covid slashed rail journeys by 80 per cent in the North West last year - the lowest recorded in nearly 30 years "Most of the difference can be explained by the restrictions on non-essential travel during the pandemic" Manchester Evening News · Feb 17, 2022
Fuller labels Ryding 'GOAT of the North' after Olympic run inspires next generation Former Olympian Aimee Fuller gave Ryding the title after watching Ryding race in the men's slalom, where he finished 13th. Wales Online · Feb 16, 2022
Government urged to improve EV infrastructure as growing North-South divide is revealed Calls are backed by Vertu Motors' CEO Robert Forrester who said Government expectations of private sector is too high Birmingham Post · Feb 16, 2022
Lake District’s L’Enclume wins third Michelin star as Moor Hall sister restaurant gets its first A great day for restaurants in the north Manchester Evening News · Feb 16, 2022
Our task is to make Punjab the No 1 state: Meenakshi Lekhi LUDHIANA: Union minister for Culture Meenakshi Lekhi while campaigning in favour of BJP candidate from North constituency Parveen Bansal claimed that their main aim is to make Punjab number 1 state if they come to power. The Times of India · Feb 16, 2022
Met Eireann's latest weather update as 'damaging' Storm Dudley just hours away and two counties set for bashing A status yellow wind warning comes into effect for the entire island on Wednesday afternoon, with the Republic facing the storm from midday, while the North sees the warning come into place from 3pm Irish Mirror · Feb 15, 2022
Chronicle Live · Feb 14, 2022 North East chosen as base for national £1.5m 'levelling up' culture project The project headed by a Northumbria University academic will explore how culture can help communities level up economically, socially and in terms of health and wellbeing
Birmingham Post · Feb 14, 2022 TalkTalk, Pets at Home and Lancashire Cricket: The 43 latest North West hires and promotions you should not miss A series of high-profile appointments have been announced recently
Birmingham Post · Feb 14, 2022 Survey points to fresh worries over health of North East economy NatWest North East Business Activity Index has fallen for three months in a row - bucking a positive national trend
Wales Online · Feb 13, 2022 Met Office predicts winds of up to 90mph in Northern England and Scotland A yellow weather warning has been issued for parts of the UK
The Independent UK · Feb 13, 2022 UK set to be battered by high winds as Met Office warns of 90mph gusts next week The agency has issued a yellow alert for wind on Wednesday and Thursday for parts of Northern Ireland, most of Scotland and the north of England.
Daily Mirror · Feb 13, 2022 Top Tory vows to 'restore a smaller state' as fears grow for 'levelling up' plan Boris Johnson's new chief of staff said "both financially and in taking a step back from people’s lives" ministers would be taking a new approach, just days after Michael Gove vowed to hand northern leaders more power
The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2022 ‘I can see into the lives of North Koreans’ – the professor who reads washed-up rubbish From sweet wrappers to noodle packets, Prof Kang Dong-wan collects litter that floats to South Korea from the repressive North. Can military secrets really be uncovered in their surprisingly sophisticated designs?
Chronicle Live · Feb 11, 2022 Lisa Nandy: North being asked to go 'cap in hand to a group of masters' in Westminster for cash Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy has slammed the Government's strategy.
Manchester Evening News · Feb 9, 2022 Northerners should accept lower wages because 'London is London', top Rishi Sunak aide says Tim Leunig said “the only way towns and cities that are less well connected can compete to attract firms is to accept lower wages".
Liverpool Echo · Feb 8, 2022 Rishi Sunak aid says Northern workers should 'accept lower wages' Tim Leunig, the Chancellor's economic advisor, said there is "no realistic prospect" the rest of the UK can catch up with the South East
Manchester Evening News · Feb 8, 2022 Michael Gove rails against trickle-down economics in levelling up speech to northern leaders The Tory cabinet minister said the approach simply hadn’t worked for the North, calling levelling up ‘the central mission of our times’