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"Things are all moving in the wrong direction," said lead author Prof Piers Forster, director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds.

A second route would head west, taking trams back into Bradford and connecting the city's Interchange and Forster Square railway stations.

Clarkson's estate passed through a series of heirs to the Maynard family, then at the end of 1945, AVM Forster Maynard sold it at auction at Sotheby's.

He has also ventured into politics, serving as a Republican campaign manager for former State representatives Garey Forster and Sam LeBlanc, a campaign co-ordinator for US Representative Bob Livingston, and twice standing unsuccessfully for election as mayor of New Orleans, his home city in Louisiana.

Architects Forster and Partners had suggested that Old Trafford would be demolished - and there is no sign of the current stadium in the new artists impressions.