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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

Leeds Live

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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

The Independent UK

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

Chronicle Live

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

Birmingham Post

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 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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

Wales Online

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.

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

"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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Birmingham Post

Laing O'Rourke wins £370m HS2 Interchange station brief

Construction group has been appointed to build the new station next to the M42 - one of four to be developed for phase one of high-speed rail line

Birmingham Post

Plans in for new HS2 station car parks

Urban Growth Company has unveiled designs for the first of two possible multi-storey car parks at the site next to the M42

Manchester Evening News

A legacy of broken promises: What Boris Johnson's tenure meant for Greater Manchester - and where we go from here

'What we've had in this country over the last three years is populist rhetoric that has furthered the divide of communities across the UK'

Manchester Evening News

Overground HS2 Piccadilly plan is 'cutting off Manchester's ambition'

Labour's shadow transport secretary has blasted the decision and has backed the MEN's campaign.

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Birmingham Post

What's next for the new HS2 station in Manchester as report reveals £12bn cost?

North West political and business leaders are set to lobby the government next week

Manchester Evening News

The Northern Agenda: What the census tells us about our divided North

The population is growing fast in Salford but falling in rural Yorkshire and Cumbria

Manchester Evening News

Drivers will have to 'sprint' full length of train to get away on time in 'short-sighted' plan for Piccadilly station

'This is a 21st century high-tech train service reliant on a bloke from Stoke running the length of a train'

Birmingham Post

£1m to develop downgraded East Midlands HS2 plans

Eastern leg of high speed track will only go as far as East Midlands Parkway station

Birmingham Post

HS2 reveals Washwood Heath depot designs

Planned facility in Birmingham will be used for storage, cleaning and maintenance of the new high-speed trains

Manchester Evening News

Eight years since George Osborne's 'Northern Powerhouse' speech... and business leaders still fighting for the railway he promised

“The Government isn’t doing just one thing to upset businesses in Greater Manchester - first it cut NPR to Leeds, now the HS2 station at Piccadilly and the station at the airport."

Manchester Evening News

Boris Johnson slammed for claiming cut-price HS2 plan will deliver for Manchester and the North

The Prime Minister's comments come just days after experts warned the HS2 plan for the city could threaten Northern Powerhouse Rail.

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