HS2 in the news
- Independent: Andy McSmith’s Diary: A good day to bury inflated HS2 executives’ salaries
- Bucks Free Press: HS2 slammed for treating Chiltern residents ‘with contempt’
- Star: Doncaster’s new High Speed Rail college steams ahead as plans are given green light
- Star: Campaign grows to switch the building of HS2 station to Sheffield city centre
- Bucks Free Press: HS2 traffic: Rail bosses will ‘review plans’ over fears ambulance routes will be severely disrupted
- Staffordshire Newsletter: Act now if your land is affected by HS2 route announcement, landowners and farmers urged
- Uttoxeter Advertiser: Check how HS2 affects your home and land
- Advertiser & Review: Incredible laser pictures show HS2’s path of destruction
- getbucks: HS2 environmental statement consultations extended
- mix96: Artist Carries On HS2 Laser Project
- Construction Index: Seven consortia invited to bid for HS2 enabling works
- Warrington Guardian: Frustration in town grows as Government delays HS2 route announcement for further year
- BBC: Further push to get Wales bigger share of HS2 cash
- Bucks Free Press: Major A&E ambulance routes will be severely disrupted if HS2 truck gridlock ‘nightmare’ becomes reality, campaigners warn
- Bucks Free Press: Cllr leader vows to keep fighting plans for HS2 trucks to use ‘unsuitable’ roads in Bucks
- Camden New Journal: Belgian princess tells MPs to rethink HS2 rail project
- click on Wales: Spending on HS2 and its impact on Welsh funding
- Leek Post & Times: HS2 announcement set to prompt work to bring railway back to Leek despite link at Crewe
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 line closure powers ‘wider-reaching than feared’ – London TravelWatch
- Rail Technology Magazine: Shortlist announced for £900m HS2 civils enabling works
- Construction News: HS2 contract shortlist revealed for enabling works
- Yorkshire Post: McLoughlin waters down promise to build HS2 from Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Post: McLoughlin believes what he’s saying, but talk is cheap
- Sentinel: £500k of taxpayers’ money needed to keep HS2 rail hub plans on track
- Huffington Post: HS2 – Will David Slay Goliath in the Battle for Hearts and Minds?
- Spectator: Spectator competition winners: poems about HS2
- BBC: HS2 budget means £755m extra for Wales, ministers say
- Warrington Worldwide: MP slams Government for delaying HS2 decision
- South Wales Argus: £755 million for Wales from HS2 project
- getbucks: Landowners urged to seek HS2 compensation advice
- Bucks Free Press: One-way tunnel could solve costly HS2 problem
- beleben: Take us up to 2026
- Express & Star: Campaigners form breakaway group calling for rethink on HS2
- Independent: Northern Powerhouse plans ‘seriously undermined’ by proposed HS2 route through Sheffield, warns council leader
- Independent: HS2: Alternative high-speed rail network ‘could be £20bn cheaper and pay for itself’
- Wakerfield Express: HS2 hub to bring 10,000 jobs and £400m of investment
- Mail: Scots to get extra £5bn for HS2: English taxpayers will be forced to pay ‘compensation’ even though journey times to London will be half an hour shorter
- beleben: HS2 and London Midland punctuality
- Star: Dedicated HS2 service in Sheffield
- Warrington Guardian: MP criticises Government for delaying announcement on HS2 route
- Transport Watch: The HS2 disaster: a summary for MPs: December 2015
- mza planning: HS2 delay is an ‘advantage’, according to county council leader
- Lichfield Mercury: HS2 ‘changes may be possible’ says Lichfield MP as next phase confirmed
- Lichfield Mercury: Community near Lichfield let down by HS2 company says watchdog
- Transport Watch: HS2 Wider Economic Benefits – What about the losses?
- Camden New Journal: Our politicians are taking the public for a ride over HS2
- Camden New Journal: Radio presenter Robert Elms kept awake as HS2 start manhole work in middle of night
- Oxford Mail: Flights between Oxford and Edinburgh to begin next spring
- Rail Technology Magazine: Camden to get more say over HS2 and Crossrail 2 works in major DfT deals
- Warrington Worldwide: Shadow of HS2 still hangs over the borough
- Yorkshire Evening Post: Grant Woodward: What’s the point of HS2 when I can’t even get to work in Leeds?
- beleben: New peaks of dissimulation
- Staffordshire Newsletter: Stafford council bosses remain unconvinced by HS2 plans
- Lichfield Live: Councillor warns HS2 will lead to years of misery for Lichfield residents
- New Civil Engineer: HS2 promoter offers olive branch to council in Euston row
- Farming UK: ‘HS2 Ltd must do more to contact all farmers in regard to new route’
- Global Rail News: Government “not pursuing” HS1-HS2 rail link
- beleben: To be delivered as (com)promised
- beleben: Meet or move towards
- Daventry Express: Accelerating HS2 plans ‘risk more misery for home owners’
- NFU: NFU responds to latest HS2 announcement
- Insider Media: HS2 Economic Benefits Best In City Centre Location – Chamber
- Farmers Weekly: HS2 phase two: Government ‘must address farmers’ worries’
- Express & Star: HS2 payouts for housing are allowed
- Business Quarter: Ambitious plans to turn Leeds Station into HS2 hub
- Coventry Telegraph: More delays to HS2 as Government fails to confirm route through Warwickshire
- Business Link: Plan reveals Leeds’ connection to HS2
- mix96: HS2 Complaints Report Welcomed By MP
- Guardian: HS2 to be completed as far as Crewe by 2027 under revised plans
- Times: High-speed rail to arrive at Crewe six years early
- Birmingham Mail: HS2 Birmingham to Crewe super fast rail link to open six years early in 2027
- beleben: Two for the price of Three
- Yorkshire Post: Leeds switch prompts fresh calls for Sheffield HS2 stations
- Yorkshire Post: Does Leeds HS2 station announcement give Sheffield campaigners hope?
- Star: Call to ‘see sense’ over Sheffield HS2 station after Leeds decision
- Manchester Evening News: HS2 rail link to open in 2027 – six years ahead of schedule
- ITV: Plans for Leeds Station HS2 hub revealed
- Insider Media: Leeds Train Station To Be Redeveloped For HS2
- Herald Scotland: Train journey times between Glasgow and London to be reduced
- Building Specifier: HS2 Midlands route to open six years early… despite soaring costs
- Crewe Chronicle: £5bn HS2 super hub station will be built in Crewe
- Derby Telegraph: New map shows how quickly people in Derbyshire could get to HS2 station
- Design Week: Visualisations of HS2 station hubs emerge
- Express & Star: HS2 line to open six years early BUT funding soars to £55bn
- Warwickshire News: Warwickshire communities face HS2 delay
- Financial Times: New stations to plug HS2 in to UK rail network in the North and Midlands
- Advertiser & Review: FARMING MATTERS: HS2 deals low blow to farms
- Mail: HS2 firm ordered to pay families £4,000 each after treating them ‘with contempt’ over plans to demolish their homes to build railway
- Independent: HS2: Company developing rail line ‘misled Staffordshire residents whose houses lie on proposed route’
- Guardian: HS2 Ltd ordered to pay compensation for errors over relocation of village
- Guardian: Civil service cuts: ‘supervising HS2 cannot be left to a computer’
- mix96: MPs Repeat Call For Longer HS2 Tunnel
- getBucks: HS2 costs rise by more than £5bn in Autumn Statement
- Birmingham Press: HS2 concede fresh talks needed on Washwood Heath
- Telegraph: Autumn Statement 2015: Cost of HS2 rises to more than £55bn
- beleben: There’s gest one thing
- Express & Star: HS2 is most expensive line in world: £42.6bn and budget 10 times that of others
- Financial Times: 46 HS2 staff earn more than the prime minister’s £150,000 salary
- Rail Technology Magazine: More than £10m spent already on HS2 legal fees
- Telegraph: 46 HS2 executives earn more than David Cameron