44 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The xl bully dog was destroyed at the scene. Police say in order to make sure the safety of the public. We will bring you many developments. Lets turn to the conservative Party Conference in manchester where in just over an hours time, the Prime Minister is expected to confirm that the part of europes biggest Infrastructure Project the h52 high speed rail line connecting london to the north of england will not be built as planned. Costs have risen and the train line, which is already being built from london to birmingham, will not continue onto manchester. Hs2 trains will still run to the city, but on slower existing tracks, defence secretary grant shapps said earlier. The route from birmingham to leeds has already been scrapped. Lets get more reaction about the future of the h52 rail link. Frances read is at euston which is the designated terminus in london. What has the response been
this programme continues on bbc one. good evening. welcome to our weeknight newsnight extravaganza of interviews and intoxicating insight. here in the studio, a critical friend of the conservative party, the commentator tim montgomery, the former leader of the scottish labour party, kezia dugdale, and the uber pollster, luke tryl, the uk director of more in common. first, that debate in nottingham, only the second time sunak and starmer have shared a stage in the last five weeks. we ll show some of the most interesting bits, but was this the moment of the debate? interesting bits, but was this mr sunak, i think you made a fair job of being chancellor. but you re a pretty mediocre prime minister. sir keir, i think that that your strings are being pulled by very senior members of the labour party. are you two really the best we ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country? applause. there was just that moment, wasn t there kind of a whoa . your reaction to the deb
the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, is pledging to invest more than seven billion pounds, to try to unlock further funding from the private sector. meanwhile, the conservatives say labour s policy of banning new licences for oil and gas in the north sea will cost billions in lost tax. labour says its plans to close loopholes in the windfall tax on energy companies, that it says will raise llions. in about an hour, reform uk will release its election manifesto which the party is calling a contract with voters. we ll have more on that in a moment. the liberal democrats are having a day at the beach. while calling for an expansion of fuel duty relief for rural motorists. leader sir ed davey visited a south devon beach taking off his shoes and socks and building sand castles with children and their parents. as we said, nigel farage will launch reform uk s election manifesto in the next hour which the party is calling a contract with voters. reform is promising a freez