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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nimo Omer

Thursday briefing: Billions over budget, years overdue – no one knows what will happen to HS2

Transport secretary Mark Harper (right) and HS2 CEO Mark Thurston view a one-mile section of the first completed HS2 tunnel under ancient woodland near Southam, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
Transport secretary Mark Harper (right) and HS2 CEO Mark Thurston view a one-mile section of the first completed HS2 tunnel under ancient woodland near Southam, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

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We all push deadlines and put off important tasks on our to-do lists. But generally, most of us do eventually get round to finishing what we started. The same cannot be said of HS2, the controversial high speed rail line 14 years in the making, purported to be the answer to England’s north-south divide.

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