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More than half UK investment in transport is in London, says study
Thinktank IPPR North warns gulf in investment between regions is at cost of greater northern productivity. More than half of the UK’s total spending on transport networks is invested in London, research has found, prompting warnings of “chronic underinvestment” in northern infrastructure projects.The gulf in transport infrastructure investment between London and the rest of England is set to get worse, according to the analysis by the thinktank IPPR North, with £1,943 being spent per person in London on current or planned projects compared with just £427 in the north.
'Jampacked trains are safer than empty ones' Passengers shocked by Scotrail's response to overcrowding complaints
ScotRail is under fire again over a response to complaints about extreme overcrowding on services - by telling passengers it is safer.
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- SpaceX successfully launches rocket after Saturday setbackThe US rocket company sends a cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station.
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- SpaceX launches and lands Falcon rocket from historic spaceportRocket launches from pad that was home to some of Nasa’s best-known missions – then booster gracefully returns to EarthSpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that marks a new era of private spaceflight at one of Nasa’s most storied bases.A Falcon 9 rocket took off at about 9.40am eastern from the Kennedy Space Center, off the coast of central Florida, from a launchpad that has seen off some of Nasa’s most famous missions but has gone unused since the agency retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011. Continue readin...
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- Britain's first spaceports set for lift off The new SpaceFlight bill could see space ports established across the UK as early as 2020. Ministers have hailed the sector as the 'future of the British economy' and wants the UK at the global forefront.
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- MP: Have your say on harmful proposals for Heathrow Beaconsfield MP Dominic Grieve writes exclusively to Bucks Free Press readers:
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