January 2020

Shapps: Potential to reach ‘millions’ on old rail lines

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said re-opening old rail lines, which were closed under the so-called Beeching cuts, can reach “millions” of people in the UK. When questioned on whether this was a “distraction” for the problems engulfing Northern Rail, Mr Shapps said he would make a statement on Northern by the end of the […]

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Neville Buswell: Coronation Street pays tribute to former soap star

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Buswell’s character left wife Deirdre and daughter Tracy for a life in Amsterdam Coronation Street has paid tribute to actor Neville Buswell, who played womaniser Ray Langton in the ITV soap in the 1960s and 70s. Buswell, who has died at the age of 77, starred as Deirdre Barlow’s

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President’s Defense Attacks Biden and Argues That Charges Against Trump are too Vague

Closing out a long day, Alan Dershowitz, perhaps the Trump team’s best-known lawyer, said House managers had resorted to “politically loaded and promiscuously deployed” charges to cast President Trump’s conduct as impeachable. He insisted that the House managers tried to substitute “psychoanalysis” for concrete evidence against the president, deciding that Mr. Trump was “only interested

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