our transport correspondent tom burridge is in birmingham for us tonight.a real dilemma for the prime minister. on the one hand, potentially £100 billion price tag, on the other, that promise to voters in the north of england and here in the midlands that he would level things up. and that is why the green light on hs2 will come with a raft of other measures on transport spending. they've done a huge amount of work clearing this site behind me and that is one of the reasons why the government felt it had to keep going. this is what high speed two looks like today in solihull. tonight, confirmation that after months of wrangling and a budget which has ballooned, the project will proceed. the foundations for a new bridge over the m112 are going in here. they'll divert roads to make way for this railway. and this is the vision for that site — an interchange station with a shuttle service connecting to birmingham airport. it won't be ready for more than a decade, but the promise of better transport links in this area has already attracted investment. take this

let's go live to our transport correspondent tom burridge, who's in birmingham for us now. tom.real dilemma for the prime minister. on the one hand and a potentially £100 million price tag. on the other, that promise to voters in the north of england is and here in the midlands that he would level things up. that is why the green light on hs2 will come with a raft of other measures on transport spending. they've done a huge amount of work clearing the site behind me, and that is one of the reasons why the government felt it had to keep going. this is what high speed two looks like today in solihull. tonight, confirmation that after months of wrangling and a budget which has ballooned, the project will proceed. the foundations for a new bridge over the m112 are going in here. they'll divert roads to make way for this railway. and this is the vision for that site — an interchange station with a shuttle service connecting to birmingham airport. it won't be ready for more than a decade, but the promise of better transport links in this area has already attracted investment. take thi

i am tom birmingham, project manager with the san francisco public utilities commission for the wastewatertreatment plan we want to call it water resource recovery facility. i am probably going to call it wastewater treatment plant at least 10 times today. we are trying to go forward to recognize opportunities to reuse what we are capturing in the plants, recycled water or biosolids. there are a lot of opportunities here. it is no longer taking wastewater from homes, dumping into a water body. we want to do positive things with the water as it comes in. i will give an update where we are today on the project. i will talk about the items we are doing with the rest of the development, walk through some architectural images of the direction we are going with the project and update where we are on the schedule. if treatment plant will below indicated south of the existing plant. thathat is the odd-shaped gray blocks and the proposed plant is to is south. the reality is the planning documents are planning documen documents. >> can you point that out? >> yes, i can. >> you may have to know point

tom burridge, bbc news, in birmingham. and it's notjust trains.d to boost spending over the next five years to improve bus and cycling services across england. borisjohnson said an extra £5 billion would provide more frequent services and more affordable fares. labour says the measures won't be enough to reverse years of conservative cuts, which caused thousands of routes to be axed. 0ur north of england correspondent danny savage reports. darlington at lunchtime today. an abundance of bus services covering the town and many places beyond. where we live, there's a bus about every ten minutes into town, and then a way of coming back, yes. it's excellent. so, frequent and reasonably priced? i would say so. smashing, no problems. i'll go and catch this one. head out of darlington to barnard castle, and again, there's a decent, regular service linking this rural community to its bigger neighbour. but getting elsewhere is problematic. so if i wanted to get a bus over to kirkby stephen, which isn't too far away, there's one at three o'clock, that's all

i am tom birmingham, project manager with the san francisco public utilities commission for the wastewaterreatment plan we want to call it water resource recovery facility. i am probably going to call it wastewater treatment plant at least 10 times today. we are trying to go forward to recognize opportunities to reuse what we are capturing in the plants, recycled water or biosolids. there are a lot of opportunities here. it is no longer taking wastewater from homes, dumping into a water body. we want to do positive things with the water as it comes in. i will give an update where we are today on the project. i will talk about the items we are doing with the rest of the development, walk through some architectural images of the direction we are going with the project and update where we are on the schedule. if treatment plant will below indicated south of the existing plant. thathat is the odd-shaped gray blocks and the proposed plant is to is south. the reality is the planning documents are planning documen documents. >> can you point that out? >> yes, i can. >> you may have to know point

but first, let's speak to tom, who is in birmingham for us this for us this morning. e high—speed rail network. thanks forjoining us live on this programme as well. tom, what's the latest on the announcement? the first major headline is they are going to green make the whole of hsz, going to green make the whole of hs2, notjust going to green make the whole of hs2, not just the first stretch linking the main station here in the centre of birmingham, right down to london, euston, but also the y—shaped bit that links birmingham to leeds, birmingham to manchester. the government wants another view that latter stage in the project in trying to cut costs and better integrate it into the existing railways, and potentially future transport projects, too. hs2 has been politically toxic, no doubt about that. it has been a dilemma for the government, it has divided people within government, within the conservative party, but ultimately that pledge they made to voters in the north of england and people in the north of england and people in the west midlands that they might train

but a recent review said it could now be more than £100bn. 0ur transport correspondent tom burridge is in birminghamountryside cut up. buildings demolished. after months of uncertainty, it's on. so, today, mr speaker, the cabinet has given high speed rail the green signal. we are going to get this done. for those living along the route, the fight is over. sandra's family was forced to sell nearly half of their farm. customers at their stables driven away. it's been in the family for about 90 years. it's turned their way of life upside down. what it's doing to your health, the worry of it all, the worry on my side and my health, my family, i've got children, it would be nice to think that they could come into the business, but obviously, we don't know that now whether... what future it holds. but the new railway has already transformed the skyline in birmingham. transport links attract investment. hs2 will connect london euston to west london. the station here will interchange with crossrail, another late and over budget new railway. then the high—speed route moves north, through buckinghamshire and

birmingham, manchester and leeds with a high speed network. an independent review recommended that the scheme should proceed, despite warnings about costs overruns, concerns about delays and its environmental impact. 0ur transport correspondent tomom euston in central london to west london, through counties like warwickshire and up to birmingham, work to prepare the ground for the first stretch of a high—speed railway has been going on for years. here in solihull, they're diverting a road over the m42 to make way for the railway. the amount of work going on here, building a new bridge, diverting a road over a motorway, gives you a sense of why it has always been hard to imagine that the government might scrap this project, particularly the first stretch of it, running from here in the west midlands down to london. gordon brown was in charge when the project was conceived a decade ago. the time for high—speed rail has come. 0ther prime ministers have given it their backing. today, borisjohnson will, too. he'll back the whole project — a y—shaped railway. the latter phase linking birmingham to manchester and leeds will be reviewed to try and cut costs. but it will go ahead. hs2 is needed, say supporters, because our railways are o

and from birmingham mommy wanted to move there she felt would be safer but my father loved the countryside so tom ox. well we ended up there. i suppose my last recollections of my father are leaving to go to the hospital to visit my sister she was only 2 years old at the time. not really the last that i can remember of seeing them going out through the front door to visit them in the hospital. 'd particular even. with my fall on the intention was to stop it on the spot on the way home and i was out of character is drunk with his workmates. they don't need just to write about the same time as the. man killing him almost immediately michael don't leave the bar owner sean into the bar head banging the door. into the bar boy who spread the inside of the building with bullets. on the number of other individuals and seriously injuring them then threw in a bomb. that might hold only in the back of their head who killed him almost instantly. the bomb exploded. my father was probably already dead because he'd been shot and before long. i came to walk in islands in $981.00 and i found myself increasingly d

tom burridge reports. from euston in central london to west london, through counties like warwickshire and up to birminghamhere, building a new bridge, diverting a road over a motorway, gives you a sense of why it has always been hard to imagine that the government might scrap this project, particularly the first stretch of it, running from here in the west midlands down to london. gordon brown was in charge when the project was conceived a decade ago. the time for high—speed rail has come. 0ther prime ministers have given it their backing. today, borisjohnson will, too. he'll back the whole project — a y—shaped railway. the latter phase linking birmingham to manchester and leeds will be reviewed to try and cut costs. but it will go ahead. hs2 is needed, say supporters, because our railways are overcrowded. but the high—speed vision, this is what they hope birmingham station will look like, comes with a high price tag, which has risen and risen. 0riginally, it was expected that hs2 would cost £36 billion. that figure then rose to £56 billion. but last summer, hs2 ltd admitted up to £88 billion was needed.

tom burridge reports. from euston in central london to west london, through counties like warwickshire and up to birminghamrepare the ground for the first stretch of a high—speed railway has been going on for years. here in solihull, they're diverting a road over the m112 to make way for the railway. the amount of work going on here — building a new bridge, diverting a road over a motorway — gives you a sense of why it has always been hard to imagine that the government might scrap this project, particularly the first stretch of it, running from here in the west midlands down to london. gordon brown was in charge when the project was conceived a decade ago. the time for high—speed rail has come. 0ther prime ministers have given it their backing. today, borisjohnson has, too. he's backed the whole project — a y—shaped railway. the latter phase, linking birmingham to manchester and leeds, will be reviewed to try and cut costs, but it will go ahead. hs2 is needed, say supporters, because our railways are overcrowded. but the high—speed vision — this is what they hope birmingham station will look like — comes

tom burridge. from euston in central london to west london, through counties like warwickshire and up to birminghampare the ground for the first stretch of a high—speed railway has been going on for years. here in solihull, they're diverting a road over the m42 to make way for the railway. the amount of work going on here — building a new bridge, diverting a road over a motorway — gives you a sense of why it has always been hard to imagine that the government might scrap this project, particularly the first stretch of it, running from here in the west midlands down to london. gordon brown was in charge when the project was conceived a decade ago. the time for high—speed rail has come. 0ther prime ministers have given it their backing. today, borisjohnson has, too. he's backed the whole project — a y—shaped railway. the latter phase, linking birmingham to manchester and leeds, will be reviewed to try and cut costs, but it will go ahead. hs2 is needed, say supporters, because our railways are overcrowded. but the high—speed vision — this is what they hope birmingham station will look like — comes wit

birmingham. as the two lows merge tomorrow night, we look for rain getting into the great lakes and also the northeast. and more snow north of chicago, a system we'll be tracking all week. tom? >> rob, thank you. >>> next to the dramatic rescue of a missing couple, airlifted after being missing for more than a week. they went out to see the sunset and got lost in the dark, surviving on a puddle of water. here's zachary kiesch. >> reporter: tonight, the hikers some feared were dead, now recovering after this dramatic rescue. airlifted to safety after eight days lost in the woods. the couple, ian irwin and carol kiparsky, both in their 70s, are resting in the hospital. >> how do 70-year-old-plus people survive in the middle of a mountainside where it's cold and not have something terrible happen? i don't know that i could live through it. >> reporter: it started with a valentine's day getaway. >> this is the kind of vacation they take. they go to a cabin, they take long walks. and usually it doesn't end up with them getting in the dark, taking the wrong turn and just walking for eight days. >> reporter: for days, hundreds of people joined the exhaustive search. after consecut

birmingham by an hour. hsz, don't want you! environmental groups say hs2 will cause irreversible damage along the route. the government believes the long—term benefits for the country will be worth it. toms, in the west midlands. the government has also promised to boost spending over the next five years to improve bus services and cycle routes across england. the prime minister said an extra £5 billion would provide more frequent services and more affordable fares. labour says the measures won't be enough to reverse years of conservative cuts, which caused thousands of bus routes to be axed. 0ur north of england corrrespondent danny savage reports. darlington at lunchtime today — an abundance of bus services covering the town and many places beyond. where we live, there's a bus about every ten minutes into town, and then on the way coming back, yes, so it's excellent. so frequent and reasonably priced? yeah, i would say so. smashing, yeah, no problems. i'm going to catch this one. head out of darlington to barnard castle, and again there is a decent regular service linking this rural community to its bigger neighbour. but getting elsewhere is problematic. so if i wanted to get a bus ov

birmingham by an hour. chanting: h52, don't want you! environmental groups say hs2 will cause irreversible damage along the route. the government believes the long—term benefits for the country will be worth it. tomvernment has also promised to boost spending over the next five years to improve bus services and cycling routes across england. the prime minister said an extra £5 billion would provide more frequent services and more affordable fares. labour says the measures won't be enough to reverse years of conservative cuts, which caused thousands of bus routes to be axed. 0ur north of england corrrespondent danny savage reports. darlington at lunchtime today — an abundance of bus services covering the town and many places beyond. where we live, there's a bus about every ten minutes into town, and then on the way coming back, yes, so it's excellent. so, frequent and reasonably priced? yeah, i would say so. smashing, yeah, no problems. i'm going to catch this one. head out of darlington to barnard castle, and again there is a decent regular service linking this rural community to its bigger neighbour. but getting elsewhere is problematic. so if i wanted to get a bus over to kirkby stephen, which