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Sophie Mei Lan with today's news headlines.

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00:00Hi, I'm Sophie Mailan-Mailin and here are today's headlines.

00:04In the first day of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool,

00:08Labour have announced a new town to be built here in Yorkshire.

00:13Leeds South Bank is one of the three towns Labour are going to start building,

00:17they've pledged before the next general election.

00:22Steve Reid told the Labour Party conference yesterday

00:24that Labour will do whatever it takes to get Britain building.

00:30A new report by the Local Government Association

00:33has found that with the right support from the government,

00:37that ex-industrial towns could prosper.

00:40The report revealed that with the right government support,

00:43former industrial towns and cities in England

00:46could contribute up to £13 billion of economic growth.

00:52That's all for today's news.

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01:00Have a great day.