A consortium involving Sir Richard Branson's train company Virgin Trains has been chosen to run the East Coast main line franchise from next year.
The Department for Transport said the consortium involving Virgin and transport company Stagecoach, who already run the West Coast line, will start the East Coast franchise in March 2015 .
The Transport Secretary says the new franchise which will take over the running of East Coast trains will bring services to places which have never had them.
Huddersfield, Harrogate, Lincoln and Dewsbury are among the places to be promised new or increased services.
Patrick McLoughlin says it is a good story for the East Coast:
At around 11pm on Friday night police were called to Darley Avenue in Athersley to reports that a man had been stabbed.
This Evening and Tonight: Showers or longer spells of rain are forecast through the evening and night.
For the second day running there were no deaths of people who tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland.