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Why high-speed trains may not be right for us in the UK

Letters: Cathy Swann argues that the high-speed rail networks seen in Spain and France may not be suitable for our small, densely populated landscape, but Steven Clark says the negativity about HS2 is a blight on progress

The Guardian - UK

HS2 will benefit Wales even after northern leg is scrapped – minister

James Davies did not rise to calls for Wales to be given more devolved funding for rail following the decision to scrap HS2 to Manchester.

The Independent UK

Starmer writes to Labour councillors in attempt to quash concerns he’s too pro-Israel – as it happened

Letter from Labour leader stresses his concern for international law and sympathy with the plight of the Palestinian people

The Guardian - UK

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Dominic Cummings gloats about HS2 cancellation and settles old scores

Boris Johnson's former adviser has also drawn up a list of enemies

Evening Standard

Quick sale of land acquired for HS2 ‘a mistake’, says infrastructure adviser

Sir John Armitt said the land ‘should be kept for at least two or three years’.

The Independent UK

No 10 says ‘final HS2 decision’ was made at conference despite video

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman suggested the recording was merely part of ‘preparatory work’.

The Independent UK

Work has stopped on HS2, but the Tories are still digging Britain into a hole

The loss of a national asset that would have aided ‘levelling up’ shows how little Rishi Sunak is really committed to long-termism

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Letters: saving civilian lives in Gaza must be paramount

Showing restraint, compassion for the innocent and acting according to humanitarian ideals are not weaknesses

The Guardian - UK

Sadiq Khan: Government’s plan for 10,000 Euston homes ‘plucked out of the air’

The mayor said he fears the plan to bring HS2 to Euston could be ‘cancelled by stealth’

Evening Standard

Harper urged not to delay rail hub plans after ‘disappointing’ HS2 news

Plans to launch the Midlands Rail Hub to improve east-west connectivity need to get under way, a transport body in the region has said.

The Independent UK

How HS2 waste clay could be conjured into concrete to cut emissions

Engineers want to set up giant oven at HS2 boring sites to create calcined clay mix for use in foundations and platforms

The Guardian - UK

Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak’s HS2 cut ‘set to put half a million more lorries on the road’

Transport bosses say HS2 plan to shift huge quantities of freight to rail now impossible

The Independent UK

Spain’s high-speed trains aren’t just efficient, they have transformed people’s lives

A fiasco like HS2 could never happen here – our fast train network is so popular that no Spanish government would dare give up on it, says journalist María Ramírez

The Guardian - UK

Why the HS2 dream was never on the right track

Letter: Tony May lists the problems with the high-speed railway and says that investment should have started in the north

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The Conversation

What Angela Rayner's speech tells us about Labour's potential to curtail short-termism in UK politics

With no apparent irony, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently announced he was cancelling HS2 – one of the UK’s largest long-term infrastructure projects – under the 2023 Conservative party conference strapline, “Long-term decisions for a brighter future”. He did so after a week of repeatedly saying he would not be…

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak admits list of HS2 replacement projects just ‘illustrative’ and not pledges

Meanwhile Andy Burnham says government must safeguard HS2 land and stop sell-off

The Guardian - UK

List of projects to be funded by HS2 money ‘only illustrative’, Sunak says

Some schemes listed as in line for funds from scrapped northern leg of HS2 were swiftly deleted while others are already complete

The Independent UK

Rail workers ‘at war’ with the Government, union boss says

Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, accused the Government of wanting to send the rail industry into ‘managed decline’.

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The Independent UK

Sunak insists he is the choice for ‘change’ as he defends HS2 decision

Mr Sunak said he does not want to focus on the situation he inherited from previous Conservative administrations but wants to do things ‘differently’.

The Independent UK

Watch live: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak takes questions on HS2, net zero and education at Nottingham event

Watch live as Rishi Sunak holds a ‘PM connect’ event in Nottingham on Monday 9 October.

The Guardian - UK

Pocketless storage for handkerchiefs

Brief letters: Women’s fashions | HS2 promises | Late blossoms | Partygate | Bedbug story

The Guardian - UK

HS2: announced transport projects were just ‘examples’, says minister

Documents detailing projects to be funded with savings from scrapping HS2 deleted from government website

The Independent UK

‘Nothing ambiguous at all’ about our Network North plans – Transport Secretary

Mark Harper said he was ‘happy to be judged’ on alternative plans for the money that would have been spent on HS2.

The Independent UK

Liverpool mayor calls for positive vision as Labour conference begins

Steve Rotheram said there was a ‘buzz’ about the Labour Party similar to 1996.

The Guardian - UK

Britain has always been a melting pot, Suella Braverman

The home secretary’s attack on immigration is steeped in hypocrisy and reflects an utter lack of historical context

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