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22 days ago
England's second city is set to welcome a brand-new train station serving the much-anticipated HS2 trains.
Top speeds on HS2 to be slashed in latest cost cutting drive - potentially making trains slower than in developing countries like India, Morocco and Indonesia ○
Ministers today ordered HS2 bosses to look at slashing top speeds from the currently planned 360kph (224mph) to as little as 300kph (186mph).
33 days ago
Celebrity dog whisperer sues government for £8million after HS2 forced him to close canine boot camp that supplied pets to stars ⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Top pooch guru Matthew Wiggins supplied highly trained dogs sourced from overseas to 'professionals, high-net-worth individuals' and celebrities, including Game of Thrones Actress Indira Varma.
49 days ago
Homeowners claim their idyllic village has been 'destroyed' by HS2 works as Ukrainian refugee says the sound is 'louder than Russian bombs in Kyiv' ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Locals in the picturesque Water Orton, in Warwickshire, say heavy machinery is causing their homes to vibrate with a cloud of dirt and dust hovering over their gardens.
74 days ago
Secret warehouse guards lost world of treasures found on HS2 route ○
Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.
81 days ago
Soaring costs, once green fields turned to mounds of earth and workers scrolling on their phones for hours - how HS2 became a £640million per mile national humiliation ⊖⊖
The trains were supposed to be running by now, earning Britain the bragging rights of having the fastest railway in the world. Instead, HS2 has become a national embarrassment.
84 days ago
Families living near 150m HS2 bridge named after Jude Bellingham complain 'Godzilla-like' structure leaves their homes in shadow ⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
The Bellingham Bridge - named after the Real Madrid and England star Jude - will be one of the tallest HS2 bridges once it is completed near Birmingham city centre.
3 months ago
How bureaucrats torpedoed HS2 by assuming business travellers couldn't work on trains - after failing to realise people could do their job on phones or Wi-Fi ○
Proponents of the £100billion scheme to and from London Euston had initially hailed the economic benefit from the 250mph train journeys taking less time for those travelling for work.
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2 ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line
Ten years ago, I walked the route of H…
4 months ago
QUENTIN LETTS: How the Speaker was ambushed in a shadowy plot to move MPs out of Westminster for a 20-year renovation that critics fear will be 'another HS2' ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Westminster, which in medieval days was a mud-bound eyot called Thorney Island, has become the world's greatest symbol of parliamentary stability.