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A couple will tomorrow say a heartbroken goodbye to the dream home they spent £250,000 renovating after losing a seven-year battle to stop it being bulldozed to make way for HS2. Childhood sweethearts Anne and Ron Ryall said their seven bedroom farmhouse – estimated to be worth at least £1million – will be destroyed to … Read more
HS2 is given highest ‘red’ risk warning as government experts warn delivering the major project on time and in-budget is ‘unachievable’ Red ratings are given when ‘successful delivery’ appears to be ‘unachievable’ Oakervee Review warned last year that final bill for HS2 could reach £106 billion PM Boris Johnson gave the green light for the … Read more
Revealed: First pictures of two 2,000-tonne boring machines that will dig giant tunnels 260 feet below the ground for the HS2 railway line The 34-feet-long tunnelling machines are currently being assembled in Germany They will be shipped to Britain and commence drilling operations later this year The public can vote on the machine names — … Read more
Revealed: First pictures of two 2,000-tonne boring machines that will dig giant tunnels 260 feet below the ground for the HS2 railway line The 34-feet-long tunnelling machines are currently being assembled in Germany They will be shipped to Britain and commence drilling operations later this year The public can vote on the machine names — … Read more
MPs issue scathing attack on the soaring £100billion cost of HS2 and warn the rail project’s bosses have been ‘blindsided by reality’ The verdict from the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee comes just three months after the Prime Minister gave the project the green light. The project’s expected cost is soaring to as high as £106billion By … Read more
Defiant campaigners opposing the UK’s largest infrastructure project have today clashed with workers as they refuse to leave a tree-top camp set up in ancient woodland. Anti-HS2 protesters were confronted by officers for positioning themselves on an articulated lorry, while an activist last night claimed to have been assaulted by an employee at Crackley Woods, … Read more
Anti-HS2 protesters have spent the coronavirus lockdown in a tree-top campsite in ancient woodland which is being destroyed to make way for the high-speed railway. Protesters have spent the last six weeks camping out near to ancient trees which are being felled along the proposed route in Crackley Woods, near Kenilworth in Warwickshire. Dozens of … Read more
A group of HS2 protesters have spent the six-week lockdown camping near an ancient woodland which is being destroyed to make way for the high-speed railway. The protesters have chosen to self isolate in the woodland near Kenilworth, Warwickshire in a camp comprising of a roundhouse made from hay bales, a field kitchen, and around … Read more
Chris Packham has lost a High Court bid to prevent work on ancient woodlands as part of the HS2 project Chris Packham has lost a High Court bid to prevent work on ancient woodlands as part of the HS2 project. The TV presenter and environmental campaigner was seeking an emergency injunction to stop works that … Read more
Balfour Beatty to raise dividend as it reaveals HS2 rail scheme has added £3bn to its order book By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 22:27 GMT, 11 March 2020 Construction giant Balfour Beatty hiked its annual dividend as it revealed a big boost from the High … Read more