Day: 3 December 2025

Avanti west coast backtracks on plan to ban passengers from key Manchester-London service 

Avanti west coast has reversed a controversial decision that would have seen one of Manchester’s most important morning trains run without passengers.  The original plan, announced last week by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), planned to turn the 7:00am service from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston into what critics are calling a “ghost […]

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“I’m not even in the country and then I’m hearing that my degree, my course is potentially not going to exist anymore.”

Switching a Greggs sausage roll and cardboard cup of coffee for a croissant in a café on the streets of Lille, France is a reality most of us would dream for. However, for Anna Murati this reality came crashing down when she was informed, during her year abroad, that her university would be discontinuing her […]

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Local Store ‘busiest I’ve ever seen in 5 years’ on Black Friday

Many reports are suggesting that footfall is on a downward spiral for shops on the high street and in retail parks in 2025, as an economic downturn looms. This trend was expected to continue with Black Friday, many were forecasting record highs in online shopping, but slight drops in foot traffic and in store purchases […]

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