Tuesday's strike blighted the journey of thousands of passengers after First North Western was forced to cancel all train services.
Services by First North Western were left in tatters on Tuesday after union members began the first of three one-day strikes.
They tell the story of a small, poor country on the north western fringe of Europe, striving to take its place on the international stage.
Dr Judith Clarke, chairwoman of the North Western Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority said understanding of shark, ray and skate populations in the Irish Sea was currently insufficient to implement measures to protect the species.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the North Western Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority limited the number of cocklers in the estuary and all permit holders had to be fully trained in health and safety.
The Bakony-Balaton Global Geopark is situated in western Hungary in the north-western part of the Carpathian Basin of central Europe, surrounded by young fold mountain ranges.
Then last Tuesday, she was attacked as she returned home from school in Mingora, north-western Swat.
Amiens Cathedral in north-western France is a Gothic masterpiece built before Notre Dame Cathedral.
Punjab and Haryana, two north-western agricultural states, now say rains are about 70% below average.
Malala is in a critical condition two days after being attacked in the north-western Swat Valley.
It is due to be taken to the world's biggest ship-breaking yard in Alang, in north-western India.
It transcends the north-western rivalry and becomes even global because both clubs are so big outside of England.
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"We were of Thatcher's Britain - just a bunch of ordinary north-west lads from a north-western town, " he said.
Facing a long war on its north-western border, it cannot keep up its decades-old readiness on the eastern one.
In a separate incident, international peace forces intervened between Serb and ethnic Albanian crowds in the north-western town of Mitrovica.
There was no message and no return address, though the parcel was reportedly sent from the north-western city of Nagano.
They have teamed up with other Arctic dwellers such as the Sami of Scandinavia and the Dene of north-western Canada.
Two strong earthquakes have struck north-western Iran, leaving at least 180 people dead and more than 1, 300 injured, officials say.
In May 2003 Mr Aghajari refused to attend the first day of his retrial, in the north-western city of Hamedan.
Elsewhere, a television channel reported that 30 soldiers were missing after an avalanche in Terrah, a tribal region in north-western Pakistan.
Heavy snow in north-western Europe is causing severe travel disruption, including the cancellation of hundreds of flights via Frankfurt and Paris.
The most recent to emerge is what happened at Aceh, a devoutly Muslim province at the north-western tip of the archipelago.
Meanwhile Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has closed the international airport at the north-western city of Peshawar for an indefinite period.
This month Trinidad and Tobago tapped Dwayne Gibbs, who hails from Edmonton in frigid north-western Canada, as its new police chief.
Beijing's Tsinghua University and the local government are developing the site, located in a desert area in north-western China, Xinhua says.
This has allowed Brazil to shift much of its army from its southern border to the north-western jungles near Colombia and Peru.
Malala Yousafzai, in critical condition two days after being attacked in the north-western Swat Valley, arrived by helicopter in Rawalpindi from Peshawar.
In the beautiful, but poor, Asturias region in north-western Spain, the subsidy underwrites production of coal at seven times the world price.
The Saudi security services continued to pursue terrorist suspects, six of whom were killed in a shoot-out in north-western Saudi Arabia .
Most of that is concentrated in the north-western quarter of the state.
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