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Proposals to scrap the HS2 high speed rail to pay for a range of smaller improvements have been slammed as "an embarrassment".
The Taxpayers' Alliance published 28 projects which they say could be funded if HS2 was scrapped.
Their ideas included dramatic improvements to the A1 all the way from Durham to Edinburgh, turning the road into a dual carriageway, and possibly a fully-fledged motorway, along the whole 140-mile stretch.
But the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, the think-tank founded by former Chancellor George Osborne to promote the North, said the region needed HS2 as well as smaller schemes.
Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership said: "Northern business and civic leaders all agree we need HS2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and more investment in key road and mass transit schemes for city regions.
"Why should hard pressed taxpayers in the North, who pay double the amount of road tax and fuel duty than those living in London, be forced to make a choice between them after decades of underinvestment here?
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Scrapping the HS2 high speed rail line could pay for dramatic improvements to the A1 all the way from Durham to Edinburgh, according to campaigners.
The road could become a dual carriageway - and possibly a fully-fledged motorway - along a 140-mile stretch, improving transport links between the North East and Scotland.
That’s the claim in a new report launched by former Cabinet Minister David Davis.
And it’s just one of a number of improvements to road and rail services across the country that could go ahead if HS2 is scrapped, according to the report’s authors.
Mr Davis, a former Brexit Secretary, said: “Together, the projects would bridge the divide between North and South, boost economic growth, improve capacity in our transport networks and provide a better service to passengers.
"What’s more, all proposals combined could be delivered quicker and cheaper than HS2.
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A private landlord has been fined for illegally evicting his tenant by changing the locks while he was out the house.
Trevor Bell had been served a section 8 notice - the first step in proceedings to bring a tenancy to an end.
However, he failed to issue possession proceedings or secure any order of the court.
South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court heard Northumberland County Council’s private sector housing team advised Bell it would be unlawful to evict the tenant without a court order.
But in February 2018, the landlord changed the locks to the property while the tenant was out.
Once the council became aware of the matter it was passed to the local authority’s corporate fraud team to investigate.


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