HS2 in the news
- Financial Times: The benefits of HS2 are becoming harder to discern
- Derbyshire Times: HS2 build could spell ‘the end’ of Stainsby Festival
- Yorkshire Evening Post: Minister rejects call to abandon HS2 ‘vanity project’
- Building: HS2 shelled out £1.3m on redundancy payments last year
- Kilburn Times: Kilburn community gear up for tense meeting with HS2 chiefs over controversial vent shaft
- beleben: The need according to Rachel
- Birmingham Live: People are getting ‘very disturbed’ about HS2 plans in Solihull
- Times: HS2 budget ‘will balloon to £80bn’, says secret report
- Nottingham Post: HS2 planners ‘miss’ lake in designs for viaduct in Long Eaton
- TransportXtra: HS2 will be four years late and cost double the DfT’s estimate, MPs told
- Bikebiz: HS2 “reneging” on Government cycle safety commitments
- Guardian: HS2 accused of breaching cycle crossing commitments along high speed route
- Cycling UK: HS2 Ltd is “reneging on Government cycle safety commitments” says Cycling UK
- Wakefield Express: Campaigners say ‘Don’t let HS2 ruin our lives’
- Birmingham Live: Watch: Furious traders clash with HS2 staff amid fears for their livelihoods
- Building: Serious doubts cast over major government infrastructure schemes
- Camden New Journal: Art protest against HS2 tree massacre
- Solihull Observer: HS2 Ltd needs to be more sensitive
- Wakefield Express: Victorious villagers stop HS2 in its tracks
- Winsford Guardian: HS2 campaigners warn of depot’s ‘inconceivable’ blight on community and countryside
- Knutsford Guardian: Properties on HS2 route left in limbo as country roads proposed for huge flyovers
- StokeonTrentLive: HS2 issues apology for ‘confusing’ compensation letters sent to North Staffordshire residents
- Bucks Herald: Campaigners hit out at HS2 “green corridor”
- Railnews: Senior Conservatives ‘discuss scrapping HS2’
- Financial Times: Europe’s high-speed rail network ‘slow, expensive and ineffective
- Conservative Home: Gove floats scrapping HS2 because he believes it to be a policy with a growing appeal
- Leamington Observer: HS2 ‘developing its own version of what ‘green’ looks like’ say wildlife chiefs in Warwickshire
- Sun: Chinese rail firms are leading race to run HS2 trains because British rivals appear to be in crisis
- Express & Star: HS2 ‘green corridor plans slammed by campaigners
- Mail: Chinese rail companies ‘are in the lead’ to run HS2 trains because British rivals Virgin Trains and First Group are beset by crises
- Railpage: EU funding ‘not spent wisely’ on high-speed rail network, say auditors
- Contractor Calculator: Off-Payroll Working: Contractor lifts lid on HS2’s non-compliant IR35 practices
- beleben: HS2 green corridor video is misinformation
- Kenilworth Weekly News: HS2 protestor locks minister in Kenilworth farm during ‘green corridor’ launch event
- Lichfield Live: HS2’s £2million green corridor plan branded “greenwash nonsense” by the Woodland Trust
- New Civil Engineer: HS2 reveals timeline and spend for next three years
- Financial Times: HS2 chief called to account over ‘robustness’ of budget
- Transport Network: HS2 accused of hiding £2bn property purchase overspend
- New Civil Engineer: Exclusive | HS2 civils design deadline pushed back eight months
- beleben: Sum kind of overspend
- Times: HS2 ‘covered up petrifying overspends’
- Building: Aston Villa forced to relocate training facilities to make way for HS2
- Camden New Journal: ‘Give me a flat’ plea of last man in street cleared by HS2
- Guardian: Fall in UK rail passenger numbers casts doubt on viability of franchises
- Leamington Courier: Reality of HS2 hits home after work starts on controversial line
- beleben: Elevated risk means increased cost
- Railway Magazine: Decisions over HS2 aspects remain illogical
- New Civil Engineer: High Speed Rail 2by3 Exclusive | HS2 civil works £1bn above target cost
- City A.M.: Initial costs for HS2 civil works costs are £1bn over budget
- Transport Network: First phase HS2 civils work ‘£1bn over budget’
- Canary: ‘Failing Grayling’ just sneakily bypassed parliament to give a £12m guarantee to a private rail company
- Guardian: Let’s replace the HS2 project with local transport investment
- Leamington Spa Courier: HS2 protest in Offchurch highlights impact of work on the countryside
- Coventry Telegraph: What HS2 bosses said about disruption to roads when work begins
- New Civil Engineer: HS2 signed £1.3bn Carillion contracts after profit warning
- Guardian: HS2: the zombie train that refuses to die
- beleben: HS2 East Midlands proposals get even worse
- CityMetric: Here’s why high speed trains don’t always save that much time
- beleben: Looking at ways to pay
- Kenilworth Weekly News: Burton Green – the village that will be split in two by HS2 line
- Metro: Thousands more dead bodies will need to be dug up to make way for HS2
- beleben: Loopy Richard and fuelish Jim
- New Civil Engineer: DfT doubts feasibility of UK-wide high speed rail network
- beleben: West Coast capacity uncrunched
- Guardian: Maglev trains: why aren’t we gliding home on hovering carriages?
- Construction News: HS2 eyes private funding for £21bn phase two
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 must be ‘X-shaped’ to bring high-speed services to left-behind regions
- City A.M.: The UK risks becoming ‘over-reliant’ on HS2 for national rail strategy, warns transport thinktank
- Bucks Free Press: £13 million compensation for homeowners living near HS2 remains unclaimed
- beleben: Who dares, saves (£60 billion)
- Rail Professional: The case against HS2
- New Civil Engineer: Camden Council has ‘serious concerns’ over Euston design
- Yorkshire Post: New questions for Chris Grayling on Carillion HS2 connection to add to his woes
- Rail Technology Magazine: MPs grill Grayling on Carillion and EY ‘conflict of interest’ over HS2 finances
- Mirror: Government facing questions after handing “staggeringly huge” £1billlion in taxpayer-funded contracts to Big Four accountancy firms in last three years
- Financial Times: MPs raise EY’s ‘apparent conflict of interest’ over HS2 and Carillion
- Times: MPs question EY ‘dual role’ at Carillion
- Coventry Observer: HS2 chiefs defend removing trees during early work in Crackley
- City A.M.: Accounting anomaly buries HS2 contract labour costs in government transparency data
- beleben: Released capacity for Whitlocks End
- Transport Xtra: It’s time for a brave decision, Mr Grayling: cancel HS2
- Kenilworth Weekly News: Concerns for wildlife as HS2 workers cut down trees and hedges near Kenilworth
- Bucks Free Press: Roberts Lane, in Chalfont St Peter, closed for the foreseeable future amid HS2 concerns
- beleben: Much less physical intervention
- South Wales Argus: HS2 could hurt south Wales, claims minister
- Staffordshire Newsroom: Council wins measures to mitigate impact of HS2 on Staffordshire
- Press and Journal: HS2 project delayed after Aberdeen letter blunder
- Telegraph: HS2 will push more top jobs to London, not spread them out, French rail shows
- Leamington Spa Courier: Southam family will lose home and business when HS2 is built
- Yorkshire Post: Grayling’s railway. Second best is not good enough
- Yorkshire Post: High speed rail route across North won’t be as fast as HS2, says Chris Grayling
- Times: Building HS2 heralds a decade of closures
- Royal Economic Society: High-Speed Rail Boosts Corporate Profits But Centralises Jobs In Big Cities
- Express & Star: Hit man ignores HS2 impact on county
- Guardian: Millions of trees at risk in secretive Network Rail felling programme
- Leamington Spa Courier: ‘How HS2 has affected my life for the last seven years’
- Kenilworth Weekly News: Walks will offer last chance to see parts of Cubbington’s ancient woodland before HS2 destruction
- Leamington Observer: Take a ‘last look’ at Cubbington’s pear tree in bloom
- Wigan Today: Wigan vs Warrington: The battle for HS2
- beleben: Information causes confusion