The Latest Breaking News from Manchester

HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds has been scrapped

As he prepares for what may be his last party conference as Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is working on a truly unpleasant gift for Manchester, host city to the gathering that opens on Sunday. Though ministers insist that no final decision has been taken, they have conspicuously declined to deny…

But Manchester’s Andy Burnham threatens to sue if high-speed rail doesn’t reach his city

In today’s newsletter: As the government prepares to scale down its ambitious high speed rail project again, we explore what happened

The Prime Minister has reportedly told allies he will not watch the cost continue to rise, in a sign he could be preparing to ditch the northern leg.

Sources suggest PM could announce new spending on bus, tram and train schemes if he decides to axe part of HS2

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

For far too long Rishi Sunak had been held back by successive Tory governments. Time for some unspecified action

The first buses bought back into public control since the 1980s roll out the depot in a ‘new dawn’ for public transport