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

HS2 may end up as ‘total waste of money’, warns IFS thinktank – as it happened

Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - They make a wasteland and they call it progress on HS2

If you have occasion to take the Elizabeth line from one of the Ealing stations you will soon pass a large area of London that might come as something of a surprise to you. Old Oak Common is slowly being turned into what the Government likes to call “a new…

Evening Standard

If only Ed had the balls to cut the podcast bantz and take George Osborne to task

Despite his appalling legacy, the ex-chancellor appears to have a lot of unquestioning journalist pals

The Guardian - UK

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

Frustration and failure as HS2 threatens to derail

Letters: Alex Ramage, John Dunn and Mark Sullivan respond to Larry Elliott’s call to scrap the high-speed rail project

The Guardian - UK

HS2 will bury two Tunnel Boring Machines at Old Oak Common

The two boring machines will be blessed in a ceremony using a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnelling

Evening Standard

Old Oak Common HS2 station awarded outstanding rating for environmental design

Old Oak Common, which is under construction, was given the highest possible rating under an international scheme

Evening Standard

HS2 station awarded outstanding rating for environmental design

Old Oak Common, which is under construction, was given the highest possible rating under an international scheme.

The Independent UK

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

HS2 rated ‘unachievable’ by major projects body

A red rating, in an Infrastructure and Projects Authority report, states: ‘Successful delivery of the project appears to be unachievable.’

The Independent UK

Harper pays tribute to outgoing HS2 chief on visit to station construction site

The Transport Secretary visited Birmingham to see work on the new Curzon Street Station.

The Independent UK

Sunak says he can’t afford public sector pay rises – but look at the white elephants he’s happy to fund

Spending priorities sum up all that is rotten in government. Where is the money for education and the NHS, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

HS2 chief executive resigns from delayed and scaled-back rail project

Mark Thurston will leave government-owned company as construction moves ‘into an exciting new stage’

The Guardian - UK

HS2 chief executive is stepping down as £61bn scheme moves to ‘defining period’

Phase One of the project between London and Birmingham is at peak construction

Birmingham Post

HS2 boss quits following major delays for high-speed railway project

HS2 works in Euston have already ballooned to £4.8 billion despite an initial budget of £2.6 billion

Manchester Evening News

Government must set out expectations for ‘floundering’ HS2 Euston project – MPs

In a damning report, the Public Accounts Committee said the Department for Transport ‘does not know what it is trying to achieve’.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Wales Online

Mark Drakeford responds to Keir Starmer refusing to guarantee Wales a fair share of HS2 funding

"Keir Starmer will be weighing up the options"

Birmingham Post

Fresh round of tenders on offer for HS2 trains

High-speed rail project is on the hunt for companies to work on new trains

Birmingham Post

Hargreaves Services gives upbeat performance picture ahead of full year results

It described a strong performance but also said there had been delays with deals in its land business and a cooling off of commodity prices impacting its German joint venture

Evening Standard

HS2 delays: hundreds of Londoners are stuck in homes they can’t sell amid stalled construction

As HS2’s Euston branch stalls, devastated residents call for urgent action as their house prices tumble amid noise, dust and unfinished building work

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Wales Online

Wales' Tory party leader insists he's not 'at odds' with Sunak after joining calls for HS2 funding

Andrew RT Davies spoke to WalesOnline about rail funding, trans rights and his claims that the economy is better thanks to Brexit

Evening Standard

HS2 worker dies in industrial incident on huge rail project

A man working on the HS2 rail project has died after an industrial incident.

Daily Mirror

Contractor dies after incident on HS2 site 'while not wearing protective equipment'

Emergency services raced to the site at Marston Green in East Birmingham yesterday and found a man in his 70s in a 'serious' condition' - he was airlifted to hospital where he sadly died

Evening Standard

Third ‘bubbling’ puddle caused by HS2 forms on west London rugby pitch

Locals have been left concerned after a grout leak on a rugby pitch near where HS2 is being built.

Wales Online

Westminster decision that English rail projects benefit Wales is 'abuse' - Welsh Government minister

Mick Antoniw attacked the UK government's decision to class rail improvements in the north of England as benefiting Wales

Wales Online

People are furious Wales is missing out on another £1bn in rail funding

I''ve gone past the fuming phase to feeling physically sick'

Evening Standard

Shock as ‘bubbling’ puddle caused by HS2 tunnelling forms in west London rugby club

A “bubbling” puddle has opened up on a west London rugby pitch as HS2 workers bore a tunnel deep underground to Euston.

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

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

Organisations

Public Accounts Committee

68 stories

the Public Accounts Committee

51 stories

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.