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Council leaders, business managers and environmentalists in Leicestershire have heaped pressure on the government to do something about the pause to a 500-million pound project which would transform the region's railway. In June, the Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin announced that he'd be halting plans to electrify the Midland Mainline. He blamed Network Rail for rising costs and missed targets. Announcing a "pause" in proceedings he said at the time: "I want it to be done and done well. It will be part of our future plans for the route". But almost three months on, there's no clues as to when the button will be "unpaused". And this has prompted the East Midlands Chamber of Commerce, the Green Party and local Council leaders in Leicestershire to write to the Government urging them to get on with it.