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'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

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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

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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

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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

Chronicle Live

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

Manchester Evening News

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

The Independent UK

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.

Zenger

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'

Birmingham Post

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

Evening Standard

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

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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.

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The Guardian - UK

The people making a difference: the former teacher saving the trees – and bats – threatened by HS2

Carol-Anne O’Callaghan has fought hard to protect ancient oaks near her home, which she says are home to rare bats. Now it’s her turn for a treat

Daily Mirror

Top Tory warns HS2 is 'killer whale' that could 'rip the arm' off the next PM

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Kit Malthouse said the controversial high speed rail project could spell trouble for Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss as they race become Prime Minister

Wales Online

HS2 will be 'killer whale' for next PM says senior cabinet minister

And it could 'rip the arm' off the next prime minister warns Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Kit Malthouse

The Independent UK

Cabinet minister likens HS2 to ‘killer whale’ for next PM

Kit Malthouse has warned that HS2 is a ‘killer whale’ that could ‘rip the arm’ off the next prime minister.

Daily Mirror

Tory leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat promises gigantic HS2 expansion live on TV

It was not immediately clear if Tom Tugendhat's promise to expand the HS2 track all the way to Scotland - when currently it will end in the East Midlands and Manchester - was a slip of the tongue

Daily Mirror

Penny Mordaunt pledges cost of living help this Autumn - but won't tell you what it is

The leadership frontrunner is refusing to say what cost of living help she will announce this Autumn, but wants Tory members to make her the next Prime Minister

Manchester Evening News

"People will have to lug cases on to a shuttle bus": Government's plan for HS2 at Manchester Airport

"It's hardly the slick and seamless experience which passengers have every right to expect and we say it is not acceptable."

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