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‘I was forced to move from my beloved family farm for HS2 – eight years later it’s in wrack and ruin’

The Barnes family sold their farm, shop and wedding venue to make way for HS2 – but now fear their relocation to Gloucestershire could have been for nothing

The Independent UK · Oct 2

Wildlife arrives on time at rewilded chalk grasslands built along HS2 route

The trains may be running late, but the Western Slopes project is already attracting birds and insects on lands around the high-speed railway

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30

Inside sprawling new HS2 train station set to be UK’s busiest

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The Independent UK · Aug 20

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Huge new railway station slated to be UK’s busiest reveals high speed train platforms

The station in west London is designed to connect more than 100 destinations

The Independent UK · Aug 20

Why a blue plaque has been installed underground along the HS2 line

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The Independent UK · Aug 10

HS2 installs blue plaque 40 metres under Brunel family tomb

HS2 Ltd said the marker celebrates ‘one of the world’s greatest engineering dynasties’

The Independent UK · Aug 10

Burnham adviser calls for billions of pounds in borrowing for infrastructure

Exclusive: Jim O’Neill, a former chief economist at Goldman Sachs, says government should spend more on big projects

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23

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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 · May 22

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 · May 11

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13

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

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The Independent UK · Mar 23

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 · Mar 23

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

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The Independent UK · Jan 28

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 · Jan 27

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Evening Standard · Jan 27

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

The Independent UK · Jan 24

‘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 · Jan 21

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 · Dec 31, 2025

‘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

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The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2025

‘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

Evening Standard · Oct 13, 2025

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

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2025

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

Uncertainty remains over the development of Euston

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2025

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 · Sep 21, 2025

‘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 · Aug 21, 2025

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 · Aug 16, 2025

‘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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