Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from HS2

Injunction granted to block protests along entire planned HS2 route

Several protesters argued at a hearing in May that an injunction would obstruct ‘peaceful protest against illegal tree-felling’ and ‘wildlife crimes’.

The Independent UK

New HS2 station will bring in 1,000 jobs, says mayor

The HS2 interchange near the NEC and Birmingham Airport is due to open in 2026.

The Independent UK

New HS2 Interchange station will bring in 1,000 jobs, says West Midlands Mayor

Andy Street has praised the job-creating prospects of new station which is one of four new sites being built for phase one of HS2

Birmingham Post

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Support for Welsh independence is growing – people are fed up with being forgotten

As in Scotland, many people have looked at the United Kingdom and decided that it’s simply not working for them, says WalesOnline’s Will Hayward

The Guardian - UK

Costain on track to complete HS2 works as profits rise

Construction company says inflation clauses in contracts help offset rising commodity and energy costs

Evening Standard

HS2 cost may rise over concrete 'issues' as tests carried out after construction halted

The faults have been found in the so-called 'Green Tunnel', with construction being halted amid fears that the work done so far may have to be destroyed, driving the cost yet higher

Daily Mirror

Manchester will be 'best place to live in the country’ once HS2 is built - but only if it's done properly, Mayor says

Andy Burnham has now called for a full debate in Parliament on the matter

Manchester Evening News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

'It's a botch job and won't wash...' Angela Rayner joins MPs opposing closure of Metrolink line during building of HS2

Angela Rayner, Andrew Gwynne, and Jonathan Reynolds have co-signed a petition to the government

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Gibbs vs Gallaghers

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Thursday August 4, 2022

Manchester Evening News

'We cannot continue to repeat the mistakes of the past': Manchester leaders call for urgent rethink on HS2 plans

The petitions of Greater Manchester authorities will raise concerns about several aspects of the HS2 Bill

Birmingham Post

Go underground, save jobs, cut congestion and keep Metrolink running: Councils’ urgent appeal to give Manchester the HS2 it deserves

The High Speed Crewe-Manchester bill had its second reading in Parliament in June

Manchester Evening News

HS2 and high speed rail 'essential' to levelling up the UK, mayors and business leaders tell Government

'Economic resurgence cannot be achieved without engaging cities and regions outside London'

Birmingham Post

Whitcombe Pipelines secures £2m HS2 contract

Wolverhampton's National Infrastructure Solutions worked with infrastructure firm

Birmingham Post

Steve Rotheram and Northern mayors urge next Prime Minister to meet them to re-think region's cut price rail plan

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss fighting it out to win over Tory members in the North this week

Liverpool Echo

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Chronicle Live

Jamie Driscoll and Northern mayors urge next Prime Minister to meet them on rail plan

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss fighting it out to win over Tory members in the North this week

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham and Northern mayors urge next Prime Minister to meet them to re-think region's cut price rail plan

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss fighting it out to win over Tory members in the North this week

The Independent UK

Leeds, Bradford and other key British cities could miss out on rail revolution

Transport Select Committee demands the Department for Transport (DfT) shows its working for changes to HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail

Zenger

Video Shows Huge Machine Tunneling For Britain’s High-Speed Rail Project

Dorothy is named after Dorothy Hodgkin, who in 1964 became the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Birmingham Post

Plans to cut HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail 'put levelling up at risk'

'Upgrading lines will bring modest benefits, but not to the transformative extent needed to end regional imbalances'

Evening Standard

Living in Birmingham: London leavers love the Commonwealth Games host city where houses cost a third as much

Looking for culture and city life with a warm welcome? Journey up the M1 to a rejuvenated Birmingham for a better quality of life at just a third of the price

Leeds Live

MPs call for 'urgent action' over government's promises to bring high speed rail to Leeds

A promised study into bringing high speed trains to Leeds has not materialised

The Independent UK

Government’s rail cuts ‘letting down North and Midlands’ as MPs urge rethink

Transport Select Committee tells ministers to review their decision taking into account levelling-up

Chronicle Live

Government rail plan for the North does not deliver on 'stated aims' of levelling up

Metro Mayors blasted the cut-price HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail plans last year

Birmingham Post

First HS2 tunnel bored under Warwickshire countryside

Boring machine 'Dorothy' creates one-mile tunnel under Long Itchington Wood - the first completed tunnel on the high-speed rail project

The Independent UK

HS2 tunnelling machine called Dorothy becomes first to complete its journey

The 2,000-tonne tunnel-boring machine is called Dorothy.

1 … 21 22 23 24

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department for Transport

Norrn Powerhouse Rail

39 stories

Transport Select Committee

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.