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HS2 decision means cash can now be spent on northern transport projects, says PM

Rishi Sunak discussed his commitment to a mass transit system for Leeds after he tried his hand at jewellery making in Farsley, West Yorkshire.

The Independent UK

Nightmare before Christmas: HS2 to disrupt rail travel on 24 December

Exclusive: Work on the high-speed line will block the Great Western line intermittently for at least the next five years

The Independent UK

Every week brings a fresh HS2 scandal. It’s time to shut it down – all of it

In an astonishing white paper, Rishi Sunak rips into the project he once lavishly funded. But he doesn’t go far enough, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

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From São Paulo to Old Oak Common: why being at the end of the railway line matters

History shows that having a terminus helps your town prosper – which, in the case of HS2, could be bad news for Manchester

The Guardian - UK

London businesses urge PM to get on with Euston tunnel despite HS2 troubles

Companies say they're ready to invest in new station if Govt sets up 'right commercial framework'

Evening Standard

Andy Burnham urges Sunak to save HS2 Manchester airport link in King’s Speech

Exclusive: Labour mayor, council bosses and rail chiefs ask PM to bring back legislation for high-speed link

The Independent UK

Extinction Rebellion co-founder guilty of breaking window at HS2 protest

Dr Gail Bradbrook found guilty of criminal damage to Department for Transport building in 2019

The Guardian - UK

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Sunak says pumping £150m into bus services instead of HS2 makes for ‘fairer transport system’

Prime minister Rishi Sunak said he was backing ‘the country’s favourite means of transport’

The Independent UK

Rail replacement buses: Sunak pumps £150m of HS2 cash into local services

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was backing ‘the country’s favourite means of transport’.

The Independent UK

‘We are vital to London and the country’: TfL boss Andy Lord on Ulez, rail funding and HS2

Transport for London’s commissioner has had to focus on cost-cutting since Covid, while fending off attacks on the ultra-low emission zone and wringing new investment out of Whitehall

The Guardian - UK

Why high-speed trains may not be right for us in the UK

Letters: Cathy Swann argues that the high-speed rail networks seen in Spain and France may not be suitable for our small, densely populated landscape, but Steven Clark says the negativity about HS2 is a blight on progress

The Guardian - UK

HS2 will benefit Wales even after northern leg is scrapped – minister

James Davies did not rise to calls for Wales to be given more devolved funding for rail following the decision to scrap HS2 to Manchester.

The Independent UK

Starmer writes to Labour councillors in attempt to quash concerns he’s too pro-Israel – as it happened

Letter from Labour leader stresses his concern for international law and sympathy with the plight of the Palestinian people

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Cummings gloats about HS2 cancellation and settles old scores

Boris Johnson's former adviser has also drawn up a list of enemies

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Quick sale of land acquired for HS2 ‘a mistake’, says infrastructure adviser

Sir John Armitt said the land ‘should be kept for at least two or three years’.

The Independent UK

No 10 says ‘final HS2 decision’ was made at conference despite video

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman suggested the recording was merely part of ‘preparatory work’.

The Guardian - UK

Work has stopped on HS2, but the Tories are still digging Britain into a hole

The loss of a national asset that would have aided ‘levelling up’ shows how little Rishi Sunak is really committed to long-termism

The Guardian - UK

Letters: saving civilian lives in Gaza must be paramount

Showing restraint, compassion for the innocent and acting according to humanitarian ideals are not weaknesses

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Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Government’s plan for 10,000 Euston homes ‘plucked out of the air’

The mayor said he fears the plan to bring HS2 to Euston could be ‘cancelled by stealth’

The Independent UK

Harper urged not to delay rail hub plans after ‘disappointing’ HS2 news

Plans to launch the Midlands Rail Hub to improve east-west connectivity need to get under way, a transport body in the region has said.

The Guardian - UK

How HS2 waste clay could be conjured into concrete to cut emissions

Engineers want to set up giant oven at HS2 boring sites to create calcined clay mix for use in foundations and platforms

The Independent UK

Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak’s HS2 cut ‘set to put half a million more lorries on the road’

Transport bosses say HS2 plan to shift huge quantities of freight to rail now impossible

The Guardian - UK

Spain’s high-speed trains aren’t just efficient, they have transformed people’s lives

A fiasco like HS2 could never happen here – our fast train network is so popular that no Spanish government would dare give up on it, says journalist María Ramírez

The Guardian - UK

Why the HS2 dream was never on the right track

Letter: Tony May lists the problems with the high-speed railway and says that investment should have started in the north

The Conversation

What Angela Rayner's speech tells us about Labour's potential to curtail short-termism in UK politics

With no apparent irony, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently announced he was cancelling HS2 – one of the UK’s largest long-term infrastructure projects – under the 2023 Conservative party conference strapline, “Long-term decisions for a brighter future”. He did so after a week of repeatedly saying he would not be…

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