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Over-optimistic forecasts for passenger demand have left taxpayers "saddled with £4.8 billion of debt" over the HS1 Channel Tunnel rail link, a report by MPs has said.

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Plaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to effectively re-nationalise the railways after the UK Shadow Transport Secretary suggested Labour were looking at the policy for England.

Green light for Leeds™s electric trolleybus scheme

Leeds’s decades-long campaign for a modern transport system has finally reached a successful conclusion after Ministers gave the green light to a £250m electric trolleybus scheme.

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  • Green light for Leeds trolleybusTrolleybuses are set to return to Leeds after Transport Secretary Justine Greening today approved a new £250 million public transport system.

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