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A FUNDRAISING drive has been launched to support the campaign to extend the Borders Railway to Carlisle.
The Campaign for Borders Rail (CBR) aims to raise £10,000 to help create a fighting fund to achieve its ambitions.
It comes after Westminster and Scottish government ministers joined the leaders of five councils in the Borders in July to sign heads of terms for a £394.5 million cross-border economic deal.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry