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The cancellation of the entire eastern leg of HS2 has drawn reactions from campaigners, residents and officials in Leicestershire.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told his party conference all of the project north of Birmingham had been scrapped.

The local chamber of commerce said it left the East Midlands "bottom of the pile" for transport infrastructure.

But the Midlands - both the East and West - will get a share of 拢9.6bn, the Department for Transport has said. The Department for Transport also said the reallocated funding would upgrade links between Newark and Nottingham, extend the existing London-Leicester-Nottingham trains to Yorkshire and the North East and reopen the Ivanhoe Line between Leicester and Burton-upon-Trent.

People living in North-West Leicestershire have been giving us their reaction to the announcement, along with David Pearson from the East Midlands chamber of commerce.