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The Latest Breaking News from HS2

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

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The Mancunian Way: HS2 plans for Manchester are 'outdated'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

Manchester Evening News

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

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‘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 Guardian - 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.

The Independent UK

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

Manchester Evening News

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

The office is expected host 2,500 civil servants

Birmingham Post

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.

The National (Scotland)

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

Discussions over revised plans are taking place this month

Nottingham Post

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

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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".

The Independent UK

Rail firms slam ‘hugely disappointing’ decision to axe £3bn HS2 Golborne Link

The link will be removed from the HS2 Phase 2b Bill despite it being included in the Integrated Rail Plan.

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Daily Mirror

Tories quietly scrap controversial £2bn rail link on day of no confidence vote

The Golborne Link, which would take HS2 trains on the line to Glasgow, has been formally ditched after months of speculation. Sources insisted the date was a coincidence and it had been in the diary for weeks

Birmingham Post

Government confirms move to scrap £3bn HS2 link

Construction was due to start in the early 2030s

Birmingham Post

West Midlands businesses to hear more about the 'tens of thousands' of HS2 contracts up for grabs at online summit

Businesses from across the region are invited to take part in an online summit later this week

The Independent UK

Protestors oppose route-wide HS2 injunction plan targeting ‘persons unknown’

The injunction is being sought against anyone damaging, delaying or hindering the project’s agents contractors, sub-contractors and employees.

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham demands to see the maths behind dashed plans for underground station at Piccadilly

'Future generations won't forgive us. This goes beyond politics, it's what's best for the North of England for the rest of this century and beyond'

Manchester Evening News

London's £19bn Elizabeth line opens today - but where's the Crossrail for the North?

'Boris is now saying we need a Crossrail 2, and yeah, we probably do but that will be another £30bn. Where’s that money and why isn’t it being spent in Manchester and Leeds?'

Manchester Evening News

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