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...Two sources with knowledge of the plan say they are expecting that to include a new station in Bradford....
...At least 10 councils, including Middlesbrough, Stoke-on-Trent, Somerset, Southampton and Bradford, have applied to the government for “exceptional financial support” to balance this year’s books....
...Even before Ali’s comments were made public, Galloway, who has caused previous upsets running against Labour in Bradford West and the London seat of Bethnal Green and Bow, was already hoping to tap into...
...Once an MP in Glasgow, London and Bradford, the 69-year-old Workers party of Britain candidate has twice beaten Labour, focusing efforts on areas with large Muslim populations....
...Other major English cities, including London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bradford and Bristol, have all introduced charging zones as part of an effort to tackle illegally dirty air....
...The report said ministers could learn lessons from Bradford, which continued the government’s “opportunity area” policy after it was scrapped last year....
...Linton points to Red Pitch — Tyrell Williams’ joyous, award-winning play about three black south London teenagers, which recently packed out the Bush — as exactly the sort of work she prizes....
...“You can do NPR without HS2 but it would cost a lot more,” said William Barter, an independent rail planning consultant....
...William Hesketh Lever, the “Soap King”, built the village of Port Sunlight in Cheshire for workers and their families....
...But around £20bn of the HS2 savings will be spent on projects in the north, including a new £2bn station in Bradford, one of the country’s worst-connected cities....
...Additional reporting by Jennifer Williams in Manchester...
...One of them, Jennifer Williams, has kindly written today’s note, about devolution and scrutiny. In exciting news, Inside Politics has been shortlisted for an award....
...Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West, said: “The test for levelling-up was NPR with a Bradford station....
...“The government is selling the North short by not committing to Northern Powerhouse Rail all the way across the Pennines through Bradford, as well as on to Hull by an electrified line,” he added....
...Bradford council has long argued that the city’s poor transport links have put off investors....
...This story has been amended to correct the potential number of jobs to be created in Bradford....
...She added: “Her new government must also deliver on her pledge to deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail in full, with that vital new station in Bradford, as well as come good on long-promised investment to help...
...William currently has a solo show at MOCA North Miami, until April 16. And finally . . ....
...I arrived in Glasgow in late summer then boarded a little train that clattered along the Clyde, rounded Gare Loch, puffed its way through the Arrochar Alps and disgorged me on the shores of Loch Lomond —...
...Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Centuryby J Bradford DeLong, Basic Books £30 “In 1870 a major shift took place for humanity....
...This year’s corporate blockbusters include former winner William D Cohan, who took the prize in 2007 with The Last Tycoons, about Lazard Frères....
...Worse still was the outcome for Bradford, the country’s seventh-biggest city and arguably the worst connected, which will get neither....
...As it happens, the FT’s UK correspondent William Wallis has interviewed Mark Shelford, the police and crime commissioner who is now the lead PCC in charge of tackling fraud in England and Wales....
...The end of doorstep lending Bradford-based Provident Financial epitomises the rollercoaster journey that has led to a reduction in the number of regulated credit companies....
...“Anything that keeps the SNP out,” said Carl Vickers, who works at the Faslane naval base further up the Clyde estuary, where thousands of jobs could be lost if Scotland breaks away....
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