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HS2 bosses enjoy £500 taxpayer-funded dinners as high-speed rail project’s costs spiral

Exclusive: Critics say board members should spend less time in ‘high-end cocktail bars’ and more time ‘driving down the cost’ of the beleaguered project

The Independent UK

Delayed Great British Railways’ first station to open at Cambridge South in June

Station will be first to be given full GBR branding and will directly link city’s Biomedical Campus to London, Brighton and Stansted airport

The Guardian - UK

Plans to change HS2 train size could reduce capacity and speed in north, says expert

Review of original train order is meant to prevent service problems north of Birmingham but it may do the opposite

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How fast will HS2 be? The major change set for UK high-speed trains

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The Independent UK

HS2 trains could run slower to cut costs on embattled project

Testing the trains at their maximum speed of 360kmph would involve sending them to China, delaying the project even further

The Independent UK

Machine begins 18-month excavation of HS2’s tunnel to Euston

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The Independent UK

HS2 station will serve ‘whole country’ when line finally built, says rail minister

Lord Hendy said HS2 line and Euston station should be ‘full of trains to go everywhere in Britain'

The Independent UK

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Euston, here we come! HS2 starts digging tunnels to central London in landmark moment for long-awaited scheme

However, new station - alongside a revamped mainline station - is not due to open for 15 years

Evening Standard

‘We survived HS2 – now a huge pipeline backed by Rachel Reeves could split our farm in two’

Peter Oakes faces the prospect of a underground pipeline passing through his Cheshire farm following years of uncertainty over plans for a HS2 line across his dairy fields

The Independent UK

HS2 spent £3.8m on ‘Charles Dickens’ country mansion – it’s now empty and requires taxpayer-funded repairs

Stanthorne Hall has sat empty since HS2 bought it in March 2023 – now repairs are to be carried out to preserve the once-grand Georgian home despite no one living there

The Independent UK

‘Madness’: HS2 spent £37m buying homes – long after high-speed rail routes were axed

Exclusive: Campaigners slam spending as ‘a waste and scandal’ and urge the government to sell the land back

The Independent UK

‘HS2 has made our beautiful village stink like rotten eggs – my wife wants to leave’

IN FOCUS: After years of traffic, dust and noise, villagers in Water Orton in Warwickshire are facing a new issue from the building of HS2. Alex Ross went to find out

The Independent UK

HS2 crew digs final tunnel between Birmingham and west London with huge boring machine

Uncertainty remains over the development of Euston

The Independent UK

HS2 digs final deep tunnel between London and Birmingham

The company building the high-speed railway said a tunnel boring machine broke through at Washwood Heath, north-east Birmingham

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A battlefield hit by HS2 – and planning rules

Letters: Permitted development regulations allowed the contractor to strip topsoil and damage potential archaeology, writes Simon Marsh

The Independent UK

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

Steph Wilkin says her future plans to buy a new home and invest in her pension will be hit if she is forced to sell up to HS2

The Independent UK

HS2 engineers move massive 1,631 tonne steel bridge into place over Birmingham ring road

Watch as HS2 engineers carefully slide a 1,631 tonne bridge into place over a busy Birmingham road.

The Independent UK

‘I sold my home to HS2 for scrapped line for £1.2m – only for it to be turned into a cannabis factory’

Alan Wilkinson was horrified to discover that his former home had been taken over for the production of drugs

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The Independent UK

The village ‘ripped apart’ by scrapped HS2 line – while taxpayers foot bill for empty homes

Villagers sold their homes over plans for the scrapped HS2 line from Birmingham to Manchester

Evening Standard

HS2 has suffered ‘significant cost’ from legal challenges by public bodies

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander expressed concern that ‘checks and balances’ are being used to ‘frustrate the delivery of consented projects’.

The Guardian - UK

HS2 already billions over budget with work ‘just over halfway done’, says rail boss

Total overspend on high-speed rail could be as high as 100%, Mark Wild, who runs the project, told MPs

The Independent UK

HS2 boss blames ‘inefficiency’ for construction delays

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The Independent UK

‘HS2 won’t sell me my rental house - despite it being more than a kilometre from high-speed line’

HS2 has a rental property empire of nearly 1,500 homes, but route cancellations and house locations have got some people questioning why they aren’t yet selling up

The Independent UK

‘I sold my beautiful £4m home for HS2 eight years ago – and it’s sat empty ever since’

Exclusive: More than 400 homes – 27 per cent – bought by the government because of HS2 now sit empty

The Guardian - UK

How bad is the HS2 fiasco now? So bad it’s time to listen to Nigel Farage

Labour now says the botched high-speed rail project will be further delayed. Why not just scrap it, as the Reform leader suggests? asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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