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The Latest Breaking News from HS2

Halt new roads and developments adding to emissions, advisers to tell UK government

Committee on Climate Change report likely to recommend ending road-building programme

The Guardian - UK

‘Financial catastrophe HS2 proves need for private sector interest’ – MP

Tory MP Greg Smith said the ‘total lack of interest’ from the private sector in HS2 should have been a ‘flashing red beacon’ about the rail project.

The Independent UK

Government 'drops' plans for two extra platforms at Manchester Piccadilly as MP calls HS2 surface station a 'sub-optimal solution'

Lucy Powell MP pressed the case for an underground HS2 station at Piccadilly and blasted trains and rail connectively in the north as 'quite frankly, absolutely rubbish'

Manchester Evening News

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Tory Rail Minister Huw Merriman 'embarrassed' by 18-month wait for Leeds HS2 report

He says the report is coming soon...or should that be 'very soon'?

Leeds Live

Underground Piccadilly HS2 rail station 'best solution for Manchester and the north'

Manchester is pressing its case to a committee of MPs

Manchester Evening News

How the outside of hoped-for underground HS2 station at Manchester Piccadilly could look

Manchester leaders are calling on MPs to amend the current plan for a surface turnback station

Birmingham Post

Mancunian Way: Manchester's got everything except a late-night tram

PLUS 'Arena attack is in our DNA' AND 'Fight for the North'

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TfL wants to buy more Elizabeth line trains to cope with HS2 demand

Temporary terminus of HS2 at Old Oak Common will pile pressure onto Elizabeth line services

Evening Standard

'Build it once and built it right' plea to government over HS2 rail station in Manchester

London's Mayor has added his voice to calls for an underground station at Piccadilly as civic leaders say they fear 'permanent damage' to UK economic ambitions

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan lead calls for HS2 not to be scaled back

Leaders in Manchester and London have made a joint appeal to the government

Birmingham Post

‘Scaled back HS2 would damage Britain’ warn mayors of London and Manchester

The mayors of London and Manchester have issued an unprecedented joint appeal calling for ministers to ensure Britain’s flagship High Speed 2 rail project is not scaled back.

Evening Standard

Andy Burnham: We have to act now to stop this short-sighted government ruining HS2

Manchester and London don’t always land on the same side of an argument. Think Blur v Oasis, Arsenal v City.

Evening Standard

London business leaders back Manchester's call for the RIGHT HS2 rail station for Piccadilly

'What's good for Manchester and the wider north is good for London, and vice versa'

Manchester Evening News

OPINION - The Leader podcast: Decade of HS2 delays and London’s tumbling house prices

Critical Euston link on ice until 2040s amid spiralling costs

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Birmingham Post

Construction services company Hercules reports revenue growth

The Cirencester-based firm provides services to projects including HS2, Crossrail and the M4 smart motorway

Wales Online

16ft deep hole opens above huge tunnel being dug for HS2

Campaigners say this is evidence the work should be stopped

The Independent UK

Huge sinkhole appears above HS2 tunnel in Buckinghamshire

Sinkhole in Little Missenden is four meters deep

Evening Standard

Large hole opens up above HS2 tunnel in Buckinghamshire

HS2 says hole likely due to ‘prexisting ground conditions’ but campaigners cite it as evidence that tunnelling should stop

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The Guardian - UK

HS2 contractor confirms ‘sizeable’ sinkhole in Buckinghamshire

Construction firm Align told residents near Amersham the hole is six metres across and five deep

The Week

The long wait for HS2

In 2021-2022, the Government spent more than £5bn on HS2: about the same as it spends on the national road network. Critics often argue that the money would be far better used to fund much-needed improvements to existing railways.

Wales Online

All Wales' political parties unite to call on the UK Government to reclassify HS2 as England-only

The Welsh Conservatives joined forces with the other major Welsh parties in the Senedd to demand Wales gets the money it is "rightfully owed' for HS2

Wales Online

What happened when Rishi Sunak was asked about 'great Welsh train robbery'

'Now the PM talks about running away with other people’s money but his government is depriving Wales to the tune of £6 billion by ruling that north to south England rail links like HS2 somehow benefit Wales? Will he plead guilty to the great Welsh train robbery?'

Evening Standard

Civil servant pressed on Department for Transport’s ‘massive scale delivery failure’ over Euston HS2 pause

A Conservative member of the Public Accounts Committee raised concerns that taxpayers are being ‘taken for a ride’

The Independent UK

Civil servant pressed on ‘massive scale delivery failure over Euston HS2 pause’

A Conservative member of the Public Accounts Committee raised concerns that taxpayers are being ‘taken for a ride’.

Evening Standard

Village Idiot at Theatre Royal Stratford East review: HS2 comedy has promise but ultimately hits the buffers

The show asks complex questions and has some funny lines but could have made twice the impact in half the time

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