Good morning. Welcome to breakfast, with Louise Minchin and dan walker. Our headlines today the go ahead to keep on building the High Speed Rail line hs2 the Prime Minister will give his backing to the entire route linking london to birmingham, manchester and leeds. And im live in leeds at the end of the line. Journey times will be cut here by almost an hour. But with surrounding services on their knees, ill be asking, is hs2 the best use of
public money to close the north south divide . The search is on to trace patients treated at a brighton gp surgery where a staff member has tested positive for coronavirus. There seems no end in sight to the divisions in the scotland rugby camp. The stand off between coach Gregor Townsend and his player finn russell continues. Good morning today. Another cold and windy day across scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern England. There isa ireland and Northern England. There is a risk of ice. Coming south we still have some showers around but then we
Tonight at ten, the High Speed Rail link hsz, whose future has hung in the balance, will be given the go ahead by the government, the bbc has learned. Hs2 will link london to birmingham, manchester and leeds, with drastically cutjourney times. Today, we have our confirmation that we will build the railway that will close the north south divide and bring our country together again. But opponents are angry about the cost, the damage to the environment, and the disruption to residents near the route. In front of your very eyes, you can see sort of, you know, treasured landscape disappearing. Taxpayers money would be far better spent on local, regional transport projects. Well bring you all the details on the eve of the expected
announcement by boris johnson. Also tonight four more cases of coronavirus are confirmed in the uk one of them at a gp practice in brighton, which has now been closed. Clearing up yet again people across Northern England frustrated and angry as flood defences fail
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