Text: In some areas there was no increase in annual season ticket prices, despite wage growth.
Others have seen their annual fares rise despite average pay having fallen.
Across the UK rail fares of all types - from season tickets to single journeys - increased by an average of 2.3% on the first weekday of the new year.
Analysis by the BBC England Data Unit found annual season tickets had increased in cost by 1.9%, while median take-home pay had increased by 2%.
The government said wages were growing faster than regulated fares, which include season tickets.
Passengers commuting to Manchester with the most popular annual season tickets saw no increase at all, while the median take-home wage increased 2.8%.
Annual passes from East Didsbury, Macclesfield, Stockport, Altrincham, Wilmslow, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bolton, Glossop and Knutsford are all the same price as they were before the increase.
Yet commuters in Liverpool will pay 1.9% more for an annual pass. This is despite median wages having fallen, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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Someone travelling from Runcorn to Liverpool would pay £1,532 for their annual pass, £28 more than in 2016.
In Liverpool the average full-time wage, after tax and National Insurance deductions, fell from £21,901 in 2015 to £21,634 in 2016.
The most expensive annual season ticket per mile travelled is Harlow Town to London Liverpool Street.
A commuter pays £3,496, which is £64 more than in 2016. It works out at 39p per mile travelled.
The figures are based on a Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) list of the most commonly used commuter services in six major cities. Our analysis of the figures was based on full-time workers using an annual season ticket five days a week, except on bank holidays or on 25 days of annual leave.
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Lianna Etkind, public transport campaigner at the CBT, said: "Wages remain stagnant and trains continue to be hopelessly overcrowded, so commuters are rightly angry at annual fare rises when they see little or no improvement in the service they receive.
"Many commuters are now being charged at a similar level to a premium rate phone number for their season tickets and are left feeling equally as fleeced.
"It's high time the government introduced a fairer ticketing system that actively encouraged rail travel, not penalised people for choosing to take the train."
According to the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train operators, about 97p in every pound paid by passengers goes back into running and improving services.
RDG chief executive Paul Plummer said: "Money from fares is helping to sustain investment in the longer, newer trains and more punctual journeys that passengers want."
The Department for Transport said it had saved commuters money by capping season ticket increases so they are in line with inflation.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: "Thanks to action by the government on train ticket prices, wages are growing faster than regulated fares."
Northern Rail, which runs commuter services into Manchester, confirmed it had not increased annual season ticket fares but said other prices had risen.
It declined to comment further.
summary: Commuters in some parts of England will be worse off than others from rail fare rises, which were called a "kick in the teeth" by critics.
Text: L/Cpl Trimaan "Harry" Dhillon denies murdering 24-year-old Alice Ruggles at her flat in Gateshead in October.
The defendant claims she tripped after lunging at him with a carving knife, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
A Home Office pathologist said Mr Dhillon's account was "inconsistent" with her findings of the injuries.
Prosecutor Richard Wright QC said the 26-year-old signaller for the 2 Scots initially told police he had not gone into the flat.
But his story changed when Ms Ruggles' blood was found on his Help For Heroes wristband and the steering wheel of his BMW.
Mr Wright said the soldier, who had been warned by the Army and police to stay away from his ex, claimed Miss Ruggles came at him with the knife after a row.
He said he put her in a headlock to restrain her and she collapsed in the bathroom, falling on some scales and cutting her nose.
When he told her he was going to meet a woman in Durham, he said she grabbed the knife again and lunged at him, hitting her head on the sink and pushing the knife into her throat as she lost her balance.
He then drove back to his barracks near Edinburgh.
Mr Dhillon claimed he suffered flashbacks over a helicopter crash in Afghanistan and panicked, the court heard.
Mr Wright said the defendant claimed it was a "combination of self-defence and accident".
Pathologist Dr Jennifer Bolton found Ms Ruggles' neck had been sliced or slashed at least six times, with her carotid artery, windpipe and voice box cut through to her spine.
There were also cuts to her hands which appeared to be defence wounds.
Her injuries were "unsurvivable", Dr Bolton told the court.
Jurors previously heard Ms Ruggles, originally from Leicestershire, broke up with Mr Dhillon after he started messaging other women on dating sites.
The trial continues.
summary: A soldier accused of cutting his ex-girlfriend's throat is claiming a combination of "self-defence and accident", a court has heard.
Text: Work to build Nottingham's Theatre Royal, designed by acclaimed theatre architect Frank Matcham, began in March 1865 and was finished six months later.
Managing director, Robert Sanderson, described it as "one of the most beautiful" theatres in the country.
Celebration plans include a new play about Robin Hood.
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap premiered at the Theatre Royal in Upper Parliament Street in 1952 and returned 60 years later.
Christie sat in one of the boxes and was believed to have watched the audience instead of the play.
Mr Sanderson said he still "gets goosebumps" in the auditorium.
"It's the most remarkable auditorium because Frank Matcham, the architect, knew how to create theatres that work as performance spaces," he said.
"Actors love performing on the stage. They don't have to shout for people to hear their voices right at the top of the theatre.
"You walk in there and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and that's before the curtain's gone up."
Veteran comedian Ken Dodd made his professional debut at the Nottingham Empire, adjacent to the Theatre Royal, in 1954.
After it was demolished in 1969, an extension to the Theatre Royal was built on the site. Dodd will be returning with his Happiness Show later this year to mark the anniversary.
Hood, a specially commissioned play about the famous Nottingham outlaw, will run in September and there will be performances of The School For Scandal, the first production at the theatre in 1865.
A plaque in honour of Mr Matcham, who also designed the Hackney Empire and the London Palladium, will be unveiled and there will be open days in the run-up to the anniversary of its opening on 25 September.
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The theatre that premiered The Mousetrap - the world's longest running play - has started celebrations to mark its 150th anniversary.