The scheme forms part of a proposed key cross-border business route linking Dublin and the north-west.

BBC: A5 scheme 'not properly assessed', court told

The A5 scheme forms part of a proposed key cross-border business route linking Dublin and north west Northern Ireland.

BBC: Judge 'minded to quash' A5 decision

The road scheme, the largest of its kind in Northern Ireland, formed part of a proposed key cross-border business route linking Dublin and the north west.

BBC: A5 cash 'must go to other road projects' says CBI

The style of food in the Gaza Strip owes much to its port, which was on the ancient spice route linking south Arabia and the Mediterranean.

BBC: Keeping alive Gaza's culinary traditions

The original documents were filmed by local television teams of nine countries in Central Asia as the expedition, organized within UNESCO's programme 'Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Route of Dialogue' retraced the 2, 000-year-old 20, 000 km silk and spices route linking East and West and thus ideas, religions, people, products and cultures in both directions.

UNESCO: Culture

China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou.

BBC: China opens world's longest high-speed rail route

Meanwhile, the new 03 bus route runs three times an hour linking the national library, and the university's arts and sports centres with the town.

BBC: Aberystwyth new road link and bus service launched

One route in particular, the Great Northern line linking London and the north of England, was especially valuable: until it was built, a single, congested track carried all traffic heading northward out of London.

ECONOMIST: Booms and busts

It will provide a new north to south route with a bridge over the River Tone, near Goodland Gardens, linking Wellington Road to Bridge Street.

BBC: Taunton's new bridge is put into place with huge crane