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Nordic 'noir' drama The Bridge to be remade by Sky Atlantic as The Tunnel

When China's ruling elite gather for their annual parliament in March, incoming President Xi Jinping has insisted there will be no display of extravagance further to raise hackles about official corruption. No booze, no banquets and no boring speeches.

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Q I'm having real trouble trying to find any useful websites for train travel in Europe! I only want to know how much, roughly the individual tickets will cost me compared to buying a rail pass. but I just can't find any websites that will help me. Can you recommend anything?

Alice Robeson

As a beneficiary of a private education I know it confers obvious and provable advantages. Why should parents demand even more?

British Land's chief executive, Chris Grigg, has ruled out a swoop to buy back the 50 per cent stake in Broadgate, the City's biggest office estate, that it sold near the bottom of the market to Blackstone three years ago.

Batman puts R4E back in the black

A major breakthrough that will enable British exporters to more easily dispatch cargo to travel by rail throughout Europe could be just weeks away after Eurotunnel ran successful trials of a new train through the Channel Tunnel.

It is easy to see the political appeal of super-fast rail. The prospect of passengers whisked from London to Birmingham in less than an hour, and on to Manchester in only slightly more, fits perfectly with the rhetoric of an ultra-modern, business-friendly Britain giving hi-tech rivals from France to Japan a run for their money. High Speed 2, linking London and the North, is also an ideal grand projet for a Government wrestling with a languishing economy. The scheme will create jobs, heal the North-South divide, and make the UK vastly more competitive, according to the Chancellor, Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister respectively.

In the tiny community of Church Fenton, North Yorkshire, the announcement was greeted with anger and disbelief by residents who fear it will leave them living under “an alien monolith in the sky”.

Details unveiled of second phase of £32.7 billion project which government claims will create at least 100,000 jobs

A one-hour journey time to the North could put Stockport in the capital's commuter belt. Whatever happened to investing in neglected Northern towns?