内容摘要：Plans for Birmingham's new flagship station on high-speed railway HS2 have been recommended for approval, after the designs were revised.

Plans for Birmingham's new flagship station on high-speed railway HS2 have been recommended for approval, after the designs were revised.

Another Maine lobsterman, Nick Lemieux, said he and his sons have had nearly 200 traps stolen in recent years – and he blames their rivals to the north."This is our area, and it's all we have to work with," he said. "Things like that don't sit very well with us."

Americans accuse the Canadians of operating under a different, more accommodating set of rules that allow them to catch larger lobsters.Canadians counter that the Americans have higher catch limits and are surreptitiously fishing in their territorial waters.The union representing Canada's fishery officials recently complained that Americans have responded to their enforcement efforts with threats of violence – and some of its officers have refused to work in the Grey Zone.

The Machias Seal Island lightstation has lightkeepers on site all year round but the Canadian Coast Guard sends additional technical support if there is an issue with the automated aid to navigation.The Americans point to US Marines who occupied the island during World War One as their proof of sovereignty.

The dispute appears to be going nowhere, but during Trump's first presidency, events in the Grey Zone did not appear to be intruding greatly on the overall warmth between the US and Canada.

When Trump hosted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House in 2017, he spoke about the US-Canada relationship in glowing terms, remarking on the "special bonds" between the two nations that "share much more than a border"."There's not a spade in the ground and at the end of the day it's our money that's paying for this."

Northumberland County Council said it would hold a public meeting but, with no date yet announced, parents have organised their own gathering on 7 March.Ms Reilly-Blake said she was worried children would be attending schools which were "just building sites".

"We're talking four or five years of this, and we really really feel they're just laughing at us and that we don't matter, but we mean business," she added.A Northumberland County Council spokesperson said an "enormous amount of work has been done" and parents had been involved "every step of the way".