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Pressure is mounting on the Government to launch a long-awaited study which will be used to decide whether HS2 trains will ever reach Leeds.

West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin said buses could be brought back under public control in four years, following today’s “key milestone”.

Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey said the investigation into a major redevelopment in the Teesside Freeport zone will not look into “conspiracy theories” about whether the project can be linked to the deaths of thousands of crabs and lobsters.

A West Yorkshire Police officer accused of sexually assaulting a colleague could be sacked.

Drivers were fined more than 60,000 times for failing to pay clean air zone charges in Bradford during its first six months of operation.

Up to one in seven bus services across England could be lost if Government funding is not extended, an industry body has warned.

The public spending watchdog is being urged to conduct an investigation into a redevelopment project in Teesside which has been marred by allegations of corruption and cronyism.

South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard has leapt to the defence of Sheffield’s clean air zone, claiming it reduces air pollution which is “killing our families and our friends”.

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen claimed the major redevelopment of a site in the Teesside Freeport zone “would not have happened” without two property developers.

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has denied claims that land in the Teesside Freeport zone, which is worth tens of millions of pounds following a major taxpayer-funded investment, was sold to private developers for around £1 an acre.