UK's Sunak abandons part of high-speed train line meant to open up Northern England
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is scaling back a high-speed train line that was intended to open up the north of the country but whose cost had spiralled out of control.
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00:00 Fourteen-year-olds living in England today may never be able to buy a cigarette by the
00:04 time they reach adulthood.
00:06 That`s because of a new proposal set forth by the U.K. prime minister, Rishi Sunak.
00:11 The law could make it an offense for anyone born on or after the year 2009 to be sold
00:16 tobacco products.
00:17 At the conservative party`s annual conference, Sunak also announced he was stopping the production
00:21 of a high-speed rail project because of its cost.
00:25 The train was meant to open Northern England to new jobs and investment, and it would have
00:28 gone from London to Manchester, but it will now stop in Birmingham.
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