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NATIONAL Education Union teacher members working in schools and sixth form colleges in Cumbria will go on strike on Wednesday (February 1).

NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) teachers will walk out tomorrow (Wednesday) in the first day of strike action.

A TEACHER recruitment crisis is placing the education of children in jeopardy, one of the sector’s leading voices in the region has warned.

MAYORS and union leaders for the North of England have written to Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, urging him to reconsider cuts to Transport for the North (TfN). The letter was sent yesterday of today’s meeting today of the transport body, which is facing a 40 per cent cut to its budget following proposals made by the Department for Transport in January. The letter is signed by Andy Burnham, (Metro Mayor, Greater Manchester), Jamie Driscoll (Metro Mayor, North Tyneside), Dan Jarvis, MP (Mayor, Sheffield City Region), Steve Rotherham (Metro Mayor, Liverpool City Region) and TUC regi...

THE government was accused today of making “seven years of empty promises” of investment in the so-called Northern Powerhouse. Labour said the Tories have reannounced major rail projects in northern England more than 60 times in the last seven years. Shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said: “The government talks a good game about improving the lives of people in the north, but the reality is yet more empty words and broken promises. “Instead of delivering on the improvements he pledged, Boris Johnson is raising rail fares and forcing a raise in council tax at a time when family bu...