Two small funding announcements by the Government today.
Liverpool
£10.4m to fund the Halton Curve
£5.6m for road safety around Knowsley Industrial Park
£4 million of improvements to A5300 Knowsley Expressway
£14.4m upgrade of car parking and public transport access at Newton-Le-Willows
(and £5m towards the £15m cost of a University Enterprize zone focussing on sensor technology, Bradford (digital healthcare), bristol (robotics and biosciences) and Nottingham (big digital, i.e. spacecraft communication and aerospace manufacting) will also get University Enterprize zones)
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...for-science-and-atlantic-gateway-in-liverpool
Cornwall
The Government is contributing £9m towards a £146.6m package of works including:
Night Riviera Sleeper trains to be refurbished.
Long Rock train maintenance site at Penzance will be expanded to maintain the sleepers.
Penzance to Totnes signalling improvements broought forward five years allowing the possibility of 30 minute frequency services on the Cornish mainline.
(Of course the reason for this package is because of the negative PR from the line being severed and the South West thinks its missing out on GWML improvements)
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-package-of-rail-improvements-for-cornwall