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With the north of england and the East Midlands. But costs spiralled and it was scaled back. The eastern leg of h52 was cancelled two years ago. Now birmingham to manchester has also been scrapped, as well as the line to East Midlands parkway. Well be getting reaction from all along the network tonight. Our transport correspondent katy austin is in birmingham, our north of england correspondent danny savage is in leeds, but first lets go to our Political Editor chris mason in manchester. Sophie, for at least three weeks the plug has been poised to be pulled on a big chunk of hs2. Today, it was...

Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the ...

Is near absolute. Well, only the minaret of their mosque remains. Everything else homes, streets a whole community is reduced to this. It is overwhelming. And everyone weve spoken to here says they believe everyone that was missing has died, there is no hope left of finding survivors. Some supplies are arriving for people who have lost everything. All but cut off from the outside world, residents say they need much more. Translation there is no house to live in. If there is no help from the government, we have nothing. And what the earth took away, they are already trying to rebuild. These are...

Is near absolute. Well, only the minaret of their mosque remains. Everything else homes, streets a whole community is reduced to this. It is overwhelming. And everyone weve spoken to here says they believe everyone that was missing has died, there is no hope left of finding survivors. Some supplies are arriving for people who have lost everything. All but cut off from the outside world, residents say they need much more. Translation there is no house to live in. If there is no help from the government, we have nothing. And what the earth took away, they are already trying to rebuild. These are...

Is near absolute. Well, only the minaret of their mosque remains. Everything else homes, streets a whole community is reduced to this. It is overwhelming. And everyone weve spoken to here says they believe everyone that was missing has died, there is no hope left of finding survivors. Some supplies are arriving for people who have lost everything. All but cut off from the outside world, residents say they need much more. Translation there is no house to live in. If there is no help from the government, we have nothing. And what the earth took away, they are already trying to rebuild. These are...