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Labour expects surge of ‘shy Reform’ voters in some northern and Midlands seats

Activists forecast margins of fewer than 2,000 votes separating them from Farage’s party – or even a shock defeat

The Guardian - UK

Sunak in last-ditch attempt to rally Conservative voters with threat of a Labour ‘supermajority’

Rishi Sunak insists he has not given up, with final 48-hour push for votes to ‘stop a Labour supermajority’ – as leading pollster argues polls have been wrong

The Independent UK

Labour is fixated on winning back the ‘red wall’. The only problem? It doesn’t exist

The party’s electoral strategy is based on an outdated stereotype of the northern voter – and it will come back to haunt Starmer, says Alex Niven of Newcastle University

The Guardian - UK

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Key routes closed on West Coast Main Line between London, West Midlands and Northwest

Passengers are able to use Avanti West Coast and London Northwestern Railway tickets on other train operators

The Independent UK

Labour urged to focus on Midlands in plan for new towns

Planning experts are considering areas near Nottingham, Stafford and Northampton for housebuilding drive

The Guardian - UK

Engineer Wood Group rejects £1.4bn bid from Dubai rival; TSB to shut 36 branches – as it happened

Train driver strikes in England bring more disruption; Sweden’s Riksbank cuts rates for first time in eight years

The Guardian - UK

‘We end up with nothing’: east Midlands mayoral candidates say role could transform region

Those vying for job say it will put region on more equal footing with areas such as West Midlands and Greater Manchester

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Is This Town a true story? This is what inspired the new drama from the creator of Peaky Blinders

This Town depicts the emerging music scene in the Midlands in the 1980s, against a backdrop of social unrest

Woman & Home

London leavers: 'astronomical rents drove me out of the capital and now I pay just £350 a month'

Alice Hargreaves used to pay £1,500 a month in rent on an Ealing one-bed. Now her share of the mortgage in Birmingham is just £350.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Forget Red-Wallers, one political tribe has been ignored for too long: meet the non-posh Londoner

Stereotypes can linger even when long debunked. The “Red Wall” is still — to some tired parts of Westminster — a synonym for depleted industrial towns and a working class “left behind” by politics. But that is only half the story. Those areas of the North and Midlands that flipped…

Evening Standard

Fund to hand out £4.7bn from axed HS2 northern section to smaller projects

Ministers say smaller towns and cities in north of England and Midlands to benefit from scrapping of Leeds and Manchester lines

The Guardian - UK

The Midlands Boxing Takeover Is Presented By GBM Sports As “ICE BREAKER.”

GBM Sports Promoter Izzy Asif is hoping to build on his incredible breakthrough year.

Zenger

West Midlands PCC applies for judicial review over scrapping of his role

Simon Foster will go to court over plan to transfer his powers as police and crime commissioner to region’s mayor

The Guardian - UK

Amazon accused of using ‘union-busting’ tactics at Midlands warehouses

Claim comes as GMB union prepares for three days of strike action at tech company’s Coventry warehouse

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Man dies of measles in Ireland after 'trip to Birmingham'

Health officials have raised concern over an outbreak in West Midlands

International Business Times UK

Manchester-Bound Flight Makes Emergency Landing At East Midlands Airport Due To Fuel Crisis

The incident happened on a Singapore Airlines flight.

The Guardian - UK

UK weather: England remains on flood alert as temperatures dip

Majority of flood warnings in south of England and Midlands, with some snow flurries overnight

FourFourTwo

The birth of the replica football shirt, 50 years on

It's been half a century since a small Midlands firm went from manufacturing nuns’ knickers to selling the world’s first replica football kits, just in time for Christmas

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The Guardian - UK

Boy, three, reunited with lost toy after Monkey’s 600-mile rail adventure

Monkey the monkey travelled from Midlands to Edinburgh to Bristol, gaining a Christmas jumper en route

The Guardian - UK

Heavy rain forecast in areas hit by Storm Babet flooding, Met Office warns

Yellow weather warnings issued for parts of England and Wales, as Scotland’s first minister visits flooded town

Evening Standard

Met Office issues new rain warning in wake of Storm Babet floods

Yellow 'heavy rain' warning issued for East Midlands and Yorkshire

The Independent UK

Rare red weather warning issued in Scotland as Storm Babet batters UK

A new amber warning for rain has been issued for parts of northern England, the Midlands and Wales, and a rare red warning is in place for Scotland.

The Independent UK

Starmer warned Tories could sneak ‘shot in the arm’ by-election win in red wall battle

Labour majority could be blocked if it doesn’t win back Midlands seats like Tamworth, say polling experts

The Independent UK

Harper urged not to delay rail hub plans after ‘disappointing’ HS2 news

Plans to launch the Midlands Rail Hub to improve east-west connectivity need to get under way, a transport body in the region has said.

The Guardian - UK

Industry backlash at Sunak’s ‘damaging’ U-turn on northern leg of HS2

Businesses unimpressed by announcement of alternative ‘Network North’

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