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The government has today given the green light to plans for a high speed rail scheme by the name of HS2 which is set to vastly improve travel times between the country’s busiest destinations. [...]

Prime Minister David Cameron may be indirectly giving a boost to Alex Salmond and his Scottish independence supporters, Young Academic's education news specialist and features editor Robert Gant reports. [...]

The BBC was left with egg on its face last night as Jeremy Clarkson called for public sector workers to be shot in front of their families following yesterday’s strikes. Appearing on the channels family programme, The One Show, Clarkson made a swift apology after suggesting that millions of parents should be executed. [...]

Young Academic today applauds the public sector workers that have implemented a mass union strike. Seemingly fed up of the tory obsession with spending cuts and particularly the attack on well earned pensions, border control staff, teachers and health workers are just some of the sectors that have had enough of George Osbourne and his [...]

Young Academic can reveal that the man found dead outside Chester Post Office yesterday, was father of two Kevin Edwards, 37, of Llanberis, Wales. Tributes are being paid in his hometown after he was found perished at the foot of a stairwell in Chester city yesterday morning. [...]

Just days after the horrific crash on the M5, a man has died after his lorry toppled on to the M56 from a bridge above in the Cheshire area. Yet again at Young Academic we send our condolences to family and friends of anyone involved with this accident. [...]

Young Academic would like to send its condolences to the families of anyone affected by the horrific car crash on the M5 last night. Police are still investigating Britain's worst motorway accident for twenty years; the incident could even prove to be the darkest day in motorway history here in the United Kingdom. [...]