WHEN our Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) came out last month, it set two records. The first was for the amount of public money spent on railways – a whopping £96bn and every penny of it being spent in the Midlands and North, supporting connectivity and creating new links regionally and to London.
IT is wrong of the Government to seek credit for the decision to over interim compensation of £100,000 to each of 50 postmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office IT scandal – one of this country’s worst ever miscarriages of justice.
THE decision by Boris Johnson’s London Government to scrap the eastern leg of HS2 to Leeds stems – in part – from three fundamental failings pointed out by this newspaper when high-speed rail was launched.