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• Network Rail hosts roundtable discussion with partner organisations to discuss how to further reduce suicide rates ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day
• Health Secretary commits an extra £1 billion in mental health services, which will benefit an additional one million people per year

Mark Carne, chief executive of Network Rail, last night called for business to play a much bigger role in helping fund rail projects and improvements.

Residents in Chester are invited to a drop-in event to learn more about essential upgrade work to a railway bridge which is needed to improve the reliability of the railway through the city.

Rail passengers travelling between Kettering and Corby are being reminded that the next phase of work starts on Saturday to upgrade the railway between the two stations.

Bromsgrove residents are invited to a drop-in event to learn more about major improvements to the railway through the town.

Local politicians have seen first-hand the scale of the repairs needed to reopen the railway between Buxton and Manchester after a significant landslip closed the line in June.

• Almost 200 sites across the country have been identified as development opportunities to deliver land by 2020 for around 12,000 homes
• A plan has been put in place to deliver land for 5,000 homes in London, 3,600 homes in Manchester and the North, 1,700 homes in the Midlands and the East of England and 1,400 homes in the South of England
• Network Rail continues to assess these sites to maximise their housing potential, and continues to review its assets to see how many more sites can be released