Mr Middleton added that all of the railway's planned services would still be running between Pickering and Whitby.
Staff also described a "brutal" regime in which senior leaders were "exited" from the organisation following a poor review or inspection.This has led to a "strong sense of unease, uncertainty and frozen watchfulness", Mr Couldirick noted.
Tameside Council was "quick to blame others" for the failings and "need to take responsibility" to oversee improvements, he said.Mr Couldrick said he had considered taking the services, which had "continued to deteriorate", out of council control and placing them in a trust or with a neighbouring authority.However, he said his recommendations would form a "scaffold" upon which the council could build.
A classics teacher who chose pop star Taylor Swift as her specialist subject on BBC quiz show Mastermind said she felt a "jolt of worry" knowing her pupils would be watching.Aine McMenamin, 26, made it through to the semi-finals in Monday's episode and hopes to be crowned Mastermind champion, to take home the coveted glass bowl prize.
The Taylor Swift fan, who lives and works in Norwich but is originally from London, said she had been setting her own homework on the US singer in an effort to score top marks.
"I was watching the Eras tour film, listening to all her lyrics and making notes about her biographies," said Ms McMenamin., and accused of "operating at the behest of Russian intelligence" - which he denies.
Ukrainian authorities expressed dissatisfaction over not being part of Tuesday's talks in Riyadh. But Trump dismissed these concerns, telling reporters that Ukraine had had three years to end the war, before appearing to blame Kyiv for starting the conflict."You should have never started it," he said. The Kremlin has previously accused Ukraine of starting the war against Russia.
"It was they who started the war in 2014. Our goal is to stop this war. And we did not start this war in 2022," Russian President Vladimir Putin told US talk show host Tucker Carlson in February 2024.Ukraine didn't start the war. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, having annexed Crimea in 2014.