ITV News

Northern Rail has cancelled services for a third Sunday running, with the deputy mayor of Greater Manchester branding the cancellations as "chaotic and unacceptable". Baroness Beverley Hughes wrote to the managing director of Northern David Brown after the company announced a third successive week of Sunday service cancellations. The operator had said last week it expected 80 of it scheduled 1,500 train services on Sunday not to run. The areas most affected will be Liverpool, Greater Manchester and Lancashire where Arriva (Northern) said ongoing engineering projects have caused severe difficulties around the short-notice scheduling of train crews.