liverpool metro mayor steve rotheram finally made it through the crush.eing penned in and the police then called me through. and then they got me into the stadium. he then began looking for help to deal with the chaos outside and found tournament organisers uefa in the vip area. i eventually saw the uefa president, ceferin. i started to explain the very real concerns i had four real concerns i had for people's safety outside and he tried to stop me talking and just said, "let mejust tell you, we have had three months in which to organise this and we have killed ourselves to get this game on." and my immediate reaction was, as long as you don't kill the fans outside, that's my concern. and as i said that, he said i was being disrespectful and he said, "this conversation is over." i was absolutely staggered, flabbergasted by his lack of understanding, really. the uefa president later wrote to steve rotheram saying he had walked away so he could deal with the unfolding situation. the professor's inquiry into the champions league final accuses uefa of serious

liverpool metro mayor steve rotheram finally made it through the crush.eing penned in and the police then called me through. and then they got me into the stadium. he then began looking for help to deal with the chaos outside and found tournament organisers uefa in the vip area. i eventually saw the uefa president, ceferin. i started to explain the very real concerns i had four people's safety outside and he tried to stop me talking and just said, let me just tell you, we have had three months in which to organise this and we have killed ourselves to get this game on. and my immediate reaction was, as long as you don't kill the fans outside, that's my concern. and as i said that, he said i was being disrespectful and he said, this conversation is over. i was absolutely staggered, flabbergasted by his lack of understanding, really. the uefa president later wrote to steve rotheram saying he had walked away so he could deal with the unfolding situation. the professor's inquiry into the champions league final accuses uefa of serious failings. they have an ove

the greater manchester mayor, andy burnham, and the liverpool city region mayor, steve rotheram, weres cancelled. once they arrived, mr burnham said poor services were causing misery for people in the region. transpennine express has apologised following a large number of rail cancellations passengers say they've been left frustrated by the problems. jake zuckerman reports. i woke up basically to find that from 7:35, when the last direct train from manchester picadilly departed, there was a six—hour gap until the next train. the experience ofjust one transpennine express customer last week. the operator's services between hull and manchester and cleethorpes have been hit by one cancellation after another. to give you a sense of the scale of the problem that people are facing here every day, we've come down to hull paragon station. the 12:06 is still running to manchester piccadilly, but the next two services, just after one o'clock, just after one o'clock and just after two o'clock, they've both been cancelled already. so, if you want to catch the transpennine to manchester, you're go

andy burnham and steve rotheram say that delays and cancellations on transpennine express and northernhe economy of the region. they're calling for an urgent meeting with the transport secretary. let's get more now on both these stories with our business correspondent marc ashdown. tell us what the mayor has said? this press conference was delayed this morning for a time, because, you couldn't make it up, both of these mayors were delayed because these mayors were delayed because the train was cancelled. the irony was not lost on them. when they did get up and running, the key message was that this was an urgent call for action to the government for more funding fortrain action to the government for more funding for train services. there needs to be an urgent injection of cas to end the rail chaos, as they put it. they say it is inflicting misery on people's lives, and wreaking havoc on local economy. it is another day of rail disruption in the in the north. it is a one day strike over train managers. they will be finishing in the very early evening, the last train out of euston is at

andy burnham and steve rotheram say that delays and cancellations on transpennine express and northernthe region. they're calling for an urgent meeting with the transport secretary. let's get more now on both these stories with our business correspondent marc ashdown . they called his press conference this morning and it was delayed time. the train was delayed. they kicked it off by saying the irony was not lost. when they did get going they said there needs to be an urgent injection of cash to stave off rail chaos. they say it is inflicting misery on people's lives, and wreaking havoc on the local economies of the big city. there has been disruption across the north of england and scotland, and this week has been particularly bad. we have had routes between london, glasgow and manchester affected. trans— and manchester affected. tra ns— pennine and manchester affected. trans— pennine express apologised because of a string of cancellations and delays. some delays were up to six hours. we have had reports of gaps of seven hours between services actually running. that has affected areas

greater manchester mayor andy burnham and liverpool city region mayor steve rotheram are calling on theperators in the north. davinia ramos reports. you couldn't make it up. the males of liverpool and manchester running late to talk about the current rail chaos because their train was cancelled, and they have had enough. we are not second—class citizens in the north. we shouldn't have a second class rail system and it is causing misery to passengers. enough is enough. andy burnham and steve rotheram want more cash for train operators in the north of england to help deal with huge cancellations and delays. outcomes of the number of avanti west coast train services were cancelled due to action by train managers. only one train per hourand action by train managers. only one train per hour and from london to liverpool, manchester and glasgow, with the firm apologising for any inconvenience to its cause. earlier this week, transparent express cancelled around 55 services in just one day. i travelled to manchester every day and i now take the car. so, yes, yes, iwish i didn't every day and i

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