You know that everyone involved had been in Manchester for far too long - stewing in overheated, over-crowded hotel bars - when we are treated to minute by minute accounts of the chaotic circumstances surrounding the briefings on Ruth Kelly's resignation. One Peroni too many contributed to the chaos of the announcement The best and most even handed account by far this morning came from the Te...

36 flights a day between Heathrow and Manchester! Madness! That was for me the most stocking part of an article in today’s Guardian about Tory Party transport plans. Factor in the other London airports and the total is much higher (Manchester Airport flight search here - type ‘LON’ as the code to get all London

Isn’t this just marvellous? Every Tuesday, at 9.45am precisely, a 50-seat executive coach draws up at a bus stop outside Ealing Broadway station in West London. No one ever gets on and, a moment later, it departs - empty - on a 70-minute trip to Wandsworth Road in South London. Once there, it waits for two hours

You’ve seven days to listen again to From Manchester to the Mississippi in which CP Lee, himself a Manchester institution, explains the pivotal role a unique concert at Chorlton-cum Hardy train station played in introducing music of black origin to Britain. Strangely they keep referring to Chorltonville, the nearby former garden city, but no matter. Here

Boris on the upgraded Shadwell DLR station: The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has hailed a new weapon in his fight to cut crime in the capital - a revamped Docklands Light Railway station. Crime figures for Shadwell station, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, have dropped since Transport for London transformed its dark and dingy entrance ...

While I was a student at York (the year was probably 1980) a couple of friends returned from a trip to Manchester enthusing about what they had found - a huge disused station with a train shed on the scale of St Pancras. It was standing empty and just being used as a car park. This was Manchester Central. Today it is better known as GMEX, the venue of the Labour Conference this week. Subterranea B...

"When I approach the station...I think of it as merely opening negotiations." Recovering after a 12-hour round-trip from Manchester to London, Norm Geras explains how to stay sane - just -  while travelling by rail.

After our visit to the Climate Camp, we went back to the Bank of England. The situation had calmed down considerably, but several thousand people were still hemmed in around Bank station. They weren't being allowed to leave. When would...

The Fed is unlikely to change monetary policy while the fate of the eurozone remains unclear and Congress is set to leave fiscal policy decisions to the last minute

Can I claim this one? In September I commented that: "High-speed rail links between London and the cities of Birmingham (45 mins), Manchester (1hr 15 mins) and Leeds were announced. I will be writing to Theresa Villiers to support this plan but to make the case that high-speed rail should not just be a north-south project but that it could have a hugely positive impact on the London to Bristol