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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘I bought my wonderful home for £1.2m – but HS2 came along and now I could be forced to sell for £757k’

A mother-of-three says she could be forced to sell her home at a cut-price because of the “devastating” impact of an axed HS2 line on her village.

Steph Wilkin and her ex-husband splashed out £1.175m on the Grade II-listed three-bedroom house in the leafy parish of Whitmore in Staffordshire in 2009, following success for the pair in running a local electronics assembly company.

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