Ancient bones discovered on Mersey Gateway dig

Rail users faced disruption this morning as RMT strikes affected services on Merseyrail and Northern.

The largest containership to call at the Port of Liverpool arrived this week. The HS Paris is the first post-Panamax vessel to stop at Liverpool, and has a capability of carrying more than 6,500 shipping containers.

Staff on Merseyrail and Northern have voted to strike on Monday 13 March over plans to introduce driver-only trains.

Forty three projects are to go on to the next stage of assessment in their bids to win funding from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority's Single Investment Fund.

Merseytravel has been granted permission to build its first new rail station in more than a decade, Maghull North on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network.

Construction teams are preparing to install a set of giant concrete beams for a new road viaduct in Widnes, as part of the creation of a junction to take traffic to the Mersey Gateway bridge.

Routes from the Daresbury and Bridgewater Expressways to the southbound Central Expressway, towards Halton Lea, will both open eight weeks earlier than expected on 22 December.

The Mersey Gateway's bridge-building machine MSS Webster has built the section of the approach road in Runcorn that will take traffic across the Manchester Ship Canal and onto the new bridge.

Two new gantries are being erected along the Bridgewater Expressway in Runcorn over the next month so testing of tolling technology can be carried out, ahead of the Mersey Gateway opening in autumn 2017.