HS2 in the news
- Brent & Kilburn Times: Victory for campaigners after HS2 project wields the axe over incinerator plans in Harlesden
- Liverpool Echo: Liverpool takes HS2 rail fight to government
- Manchester Evening News: MP Cheryl Gillan claims vital information left out of HS2 environmental report
- Northamptonshire Telegraph: HS2 rail link ‘will lead to longer journeys’
- Out-Law: Proposed Chinese investment in HS2 link shows country’s “enthusiasm for UK infrastructure”, says expert
- Birmingham Mail: China backs bid to reopen old rail line after 100 years
- Woodland Trust: England’s precious ancient woodland is being forsaken, sold out and betrayed.
- Yorkshire Post: Peter Davies: Northern towns must rail against waste of cash
- BBC News: Chinese plan HS2 link for disused Victorian rail line
- Liverpool Echo: Liverpool takes HS2 rail fight to government
- Birmingham Post: 170-year-old rail track could be re-opened to create link to HS2 line
- Birmingham Post: Then, now and 2026? Birmingham’s Curzon Street Station in pictures
- Birmingham Post: MP calling for High Speed 2 consultation extension
- Bucks Herald: Councils consider anti-HS2 petitions
- Crewe Chronicle: Labour calls for facts about planned new Crewe HS2 hub station
- Express & Star: We will only back HS2 if city benefits
- ITV: Controversial plans for HS2 rail link under fire
- KCFM: Graham Stuart: HS2 will be value for money
- beleben: Link away with the fairies
- beleben: Ickle bit of spoil
- beleben: Crewel delusions (part two)
- beleben: Alarm clocks are cheaper
- Warrington-Worldwide: HS2 would be “particularly destructive” in the Warrington area, says council.
- Wigan Today: MP demands rethink over HS2 maintenance depot
- Yorkshire Post: Villagers taking on Government in bid to derail multi-billion pound HS2 plan
- Northampton Chronicle: Northamptonshire County Council reiterates support for HS2
- beleben: An unlikely world leader
- beleben: HS2 and railspace
- Rail Technology Magazine: Liverpool could benefit before HS2 – Lord Deighton
- Lichfield Mercury: Catastrophic impact of HS2 laid bare at event in Whittington on Saturday
- Crewe Chronicle: Crewe Station will not close if new hub station is built, council leader says
- Crewe & Nantwich Guardian: Council leader to be ‘bold’ over HS2 station proposals
- Financial Times: China offers to finance and build rail links to HS2
- getWestLondon: More shocks, more horror, after a Christmas spent reading HS2 documents
- KCFM: Alan Johnson: East Yorkshire can benefit from high-speed rail
- Leicester Mercury: HS2 – just like the Beeching Report – will benefit the few and ignore the rest
- Passenger Transport: HS2 and the dialogue of the deaf – a response
- Crewe & Nantwich Guardian: Council leader to be ‘bold’ over HS2 station proposals
- Sentinel: Cheshire east Council wants new HS2 station to be built in Crewe
- Telegraph: Coalition’s legacy could be ‘harm to countryside’, No 10 adviser warns
- Star: Rail decision must be made
- beleben: Simulation of an argument
- beleben: The shifty case for HS2
- TouchFM: Home News Local News Anti-HS2 campaigners raise concerns after latest consulation gaff Anti-HS2 campaigners raise concerns after latest consulation gaff
- Chad: HS2 line will wipe out hamlet of Langton if plans approved
- Cheshire Today: Crewe town council slam Cheshire East over HS2
- Comms Dealer: Fibre-to-the-premises would be more financially beneficial to Britain than HS2 says IT entrepreneur
- Express & Star: Changing gear with motorway speed limit
- KCFM: David Davis: high-speed rail ‘not the answer’
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 overspend could drive cost up to £72bn – HS2 Action Alliance
- Telegraph: Union leader urges Labour to back HS2
- Bucks Herald: MP’s concern as ‘cock up’ sees nearly 900 pages left out of HS2 consultation
- Cheshire Today: Cheshire East Council backs HS2
- Environment and Planning: Evidence, policy, and the politics of regional development: the case of high-speed rail in the United Kingdom
- beleben: Moving to Bickenhill
- Farmers Weekly: NFU to host ‘crucial’ member meetings on HS2
- Railnews: Labour urged to make up its mind over HS2
- Tamworth Herald: Tamworth MP ‘concerned’ over missing pages from HS2 document
- Bucks Herald: Why 2014 could be make or break for HS2
- Independent: The destruction of ancient woodland is non-negotiable, Mr Paterson
- Express & Star: Vision of Midlands’ HS2 stations is brought into focus
- Independent: ‘We need HS2’: Aslef boss Mick Whelan defies Labour by backing high-speed rail link
- Sunday Times: Full steam ahead in the battle to keep HS2 on track
- Sunday Times: Voters’ ‘knockout’ choice is ban on migrant benefits
- Telegraph: HS2: Government ministers sat on critical report by Department for Transport
- Guardian: Campaigners attack proposals to allow destruction of ancient woodlands
- Bucks Herald: 1969: HS2 sparks memories of failed airport plans
- 4 News: Ancient woods under threat by demand for more homes
- Mail: Minister faces green rebellion as he gives the go-ahead for developers to destroy ancient woodlands
- Nottingham Post: Council set to line up behind HS2
- Mail: House prices rocket by 21% in one year in Manchester
- Mail: So THAT’S what they’re up to! Whitehall staff in charge of roads and railways caught trying to access porn sites at work
- Camden New Journal: It’s time the so-called visionaries of HS2 faced the public
- Camden New Journal: HS2 letters sent to one of capital’s wealthiest areas spark fresh homes panic
- Manchester Evening News: Manchester politicians dismiss claims Piccadilly Station’s ‘Lazy S’ building is ‘iconic’ in row about its potential demolition.
- BDB Law: The year ahead for HS2 – substantive hurdles and procedural hoops
- Tamworth Herald: Whittington golf club calendar to help St Giles Hospice and Pathway Project
- beleben: HS2 and the Liberal Democrats
- beleben: Britain already has high speed rail
- GetBucks: Photo-gallery: Will all this be lost thanks to HS2?
- Ham&High: ‘The biggest challenge Camden faces in 2014 is HS2’, says council leader in New Year’s message
- Nottingham Post: Plans for Derby HS2 route to be revealed next year
- Tamworth Herald: HERALD STARS OF 2013: Politician of the Year Dan Byles MP
- beleben: Inaccurate impressions of HS2
- IanVisits: Why it will take 6,000 dead goats to build the HS2 Railway
- ITV: Sir David Higgins becomes Chairman of HS2 Ltd today
- Star: Claims HS2 line could cause wildlife damage
- Yorkshire Times: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Is Right To Criticise HS2, Say Greens
- Wilmslow: 2013: A year in review
- Independent: Eurostar hits 10m passenger target… But the train arrives 15 years late
- BBC News: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust: HS2 will ‘destroy’ nature reserve
- Mail: Primrose Hill set go to war to derail HS2
- Express & Star: HS2 will boost numbers at run-down Wolverhampton train station
- getWestLondon: HS2 ‘breaches human rights’ claim
- Yorkshire Evening Post: Heritage bid to save Wakefield nature reserve from HS2
- beleben: ‘A fairly transparent scare tactic’
- Telegraph: No HS2 without cross-party support – Sir David Higgins
- HS2 and the Environment: Setting out my stall, part 1
- Derby Telegraph: HS2 plans set to be revealed in the New Year
Refers to Derby City Council's plans to run the HS2 rail route straight through the centre of Derby. - Lib Dem Voice: Two-thirds of Lib Dem members say yes to HS2