for many rail commuters, like these in marston in west yorkshire, getting around has become an ordeal and notjust on strike days. trains are always cancelled, you can t rely on them. i go to work to manchester, i only go one day a week but it s still a nightmare. i would probably go in a bit more to work if i could get the trains, it s absolutely shocking at the moment. i don t feel like it s train service at all. it s just incredibly dire and stressful for commuters. train cancellations in britain have reached record levels. the industry blames covid delaying the training of drivers, staff sickness, and factors like winter weather, plus the knock on impact of strikes. transpennine express, which runs services around the north of england and into scotland, has been making dozens of cancellations each day for months. the northern powerhouse partnership, campaigning business group, claims today that the operator s problems are costing the economy in west yorkshire £2 million a
holding the rest of the country to ransom while the tories fight among themselves. suella braverman promised she would have more to say after her sacking yesterday. tonight, she has vented her anger. in a letter dripping with derision, the former home secretary accuses the prime minister of putting off the tough decisions in order to minimize political risk weakness, she says. we will get reaction to that letter tonight from our panel, the deputy political editor for the guardian, peter walker, and from washington, the conservative commentator carrie sheffield. president biden is about to touch down in san francisco, ahead of a crunch meeting tomorrow with the chinese president xijinping. and we will be keeping an eye on a crucial vote in washington tonight. the house scheduled to vote later on a bill that could avert a government shutdown saturday. was this the night of the long knife? it remains to be seen whether suella braverman has inflicted a mortal wound on this pr
Baking bread series the Eastern European origins of the humble bagels. Cristo and his partner jack lord have for decades created some of the most spectacular outdoor sculptures or wrappings of buildings Around The World. They passed away ten years ago but had already been involved in christos most recent project on a lake in Northern Italy in twenty sixteen all their temporary and disappear after a few weeks so the documentary Walking On Water about the Floating Piers is all we have to remember that Installation Christo was in berlin on tuesday evening for the premiere. Eighty three years old and completely undaunted the artist christo travelled across the globe to the german premiere of the documentary Walking On Water. The film shows how he made it possible for more than one million people
to do just that his installation the Floating Piers on lake is zero in Northern Italy was the most visited art event of two thousand and sixteen. As they would. Walk. No rails but plenty of obstacl