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The Latest Breaking News from HS2

Overground HS2 Piccadilly plan is 'cutting off Manchester's ambition'

Labour's shadow transport secretary has blasted the decision and has backed the MEN's campaign.

Manchester Evening News

What's next for the new HS2 station in Manchester as report reveals £12bn cost?

North West political and business leaders are set to lobby the government next week

Birmingham Post

The Northern Agenda: What the census tells us about our divided North

The population is growing fast in Salford but falling in rural Yorkshire and Cumbria

Manchester Evening News

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Drivers will have to 'sprint' full length of train to get away on time in 'short-sighted' plan for Piccadilly station

'This is a 21st century high-tech train service reliant on a bloke from Stoke running the length of a train'

Manchester Evening News

£1m to develop downgraded East Midlands HS2 plans

Eastern leg of high speed track will only go as far as East Midlands Parkway station

Birmingham Post

HS2 reveals Washwood Heath depot designs

Planned facility in Birmingham will be used for storage, cleaning and maintenance of the new high-speed trains

Birmingham Post

Eight years since George Osborne's 'Northern Powerhouse' speech... and business leaders still fighting for the railway he promised

“The Government isn’t doing just one thing to upset businesses in Greater Manchester - first it cut NPR to Leeds, now the HS2 station at Piccadilly and the station at the airport."

Manchester Evening News

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Boris Johnson slammed for claiming cut-price HS2 plan will deliver for Manchester and the North

The Prime Minister's comments come just days after experts warned the HS2 plan for the city could threaten Northern Powerhouse Rail.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Sex work is 'last option' for women struggling with cost of living

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Tuesday June 21, 2022.

Manchester Evening News

The Northern Agenda: Minister tells Manchester its HS2 plans would cost 'absolutely crazy money'

Keep up to date with all the big politics stories in the North with the daily Northern Agenda newsletter. You can receive the Northern Agenda newsletter direct to your inbox every week day by signing up right here. Here is today's Northern Agenda:

Manchester Evening News

Minister blasts cost of underground Piccadilly HS2 station as 'crazy' after shelving plans - but London will still get one

The Manchester Evening News is calling on the Government not botch one of the most important transport projects ever to be built in the north of England

Manchester Evening News

Let us know your thoughts on the latest HS2 plans

The London to Manchester line is due to be completed in 2040

Manchester Evening News

Plans for HS2 on the cheap threaten to turn swathes of Manchester into a building site and botch a once in a lifetime opportunity

Politicians and rail experts are increasingly concerned about plans for an overground HS2 station in Manchester city centre - warning of up to a decade of chaos and disruption. Today the Manchester Evening News calls on ministers to think again.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: HS2 plans for Manchester are 'outdated'

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Friday June 17, 2022.

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Ugly concrete stilts could soon tower over Manchester, kill 14,000 jobs and wreck city's 'once-in-a-lifetime' chance

Manchester council leader and others have made an urgent call to change the government's HS2 plans

The Guardian - UK

‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route

Remains of more than 140 people found at site in Buckinghamshire, along with trove of personal items

The Independent UK

Thousands of civil servants to be moved from London to Manchester by 2025

Some of the 2,500 workers being moved are destined for a new hub in the city centre, the Cabinet Office said.

Manchester Evening News

Manchester's new HS2 station will force 2,500 civil servants to move to city landmark

The new office is expected to be open in 2025

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Birmingham Post

Plans for new HS2 station will see thousands of civil servants relocating to landmark building

The office is expected host 2,500 civil servants

The National (Scotland)

UK owes Scotland £3 billion from axed HS2 line, SNP say after ‘sleekit’ Tory move

WESTMINSTER owes Scotland £3 billion after the Government decided to scrap the HS2 rail link extension to Glasgow, the SNP have said.

Nottingham Post

HS2 has created 'a lot of resentment' in Nottinghamshire borough as more discussions take place

Discussions over revised plans are taking place this month

Insider UK

Tories ditch HS2 railway link to Scotland on day of confidence vote

No back-up plan has been published for the 13-mile stretch of track, with ministers saying they are attempting to find a solution

Manchester Evening News

Residents' relief... and council's dismay: Reaction to HS2's 'Golborne Spur' being scrapped

“To say I have put hundreds of hours into this campaign would be an understatement."

Birmingham Post

Decision to abandon £3bn HS2 line slammed by rail firms

The move was revealed just 30 minutes before the outcome of the confidence vote in Boris Johnson's leadership of the Conservative Party was announced

Daily Record

HS2: Tories ditch £2bn railway to Scotland on day of confidence vote

No back-up plan has been published for the 13-mile stretch of track with ministers saying they are attempting to "find a solution".

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