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Damage caused by HS2 route ‘irreparable and irreplaceable’ – The Wildlife Trusts’ Nikki Williams
The Mayor for the West Midlands, Andy Street, and Nikki Williams, who is head of campaigns at The Wildlife Trusts discuss HS2.
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Business leaders and environmental campaigners at odds over HS2
The impact of the new rail line has been greeted by both dismay and enthusiasm – depending on who you’re asking.
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‘The Treasury would never have allowed the Channel Tunnel to go ahead’ – Boris Johnson defends HS2
Earlier I spoke to the Prime Minister on behalf of all UK broadcasters. I began by asking if his chief advisor Dominic Cummings – who once described HS2 as a disaster zone – was wrong about it?
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Johnson gives go-ahead to HS2 high-speed rail line
Despite the spiralling costs, the years of delay, the environmental objections and the Tory backbench concerns – the new HS2 rail link will go ahead – first linking London to Birmingham and then a second phase on to Manchester and Leeds.
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Chancellor declares support for HS2
The Chancellor Sajid Javid has hinted he will swing his support behind the controversial HS2 high speed rail project – ahead of a key meeting with Boris Johnson and the Transport Secretary this evening.
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HS2 risks under-estimated, says watchdog
A new report has blamed officials for failing to realise exactly how complex and risky the new HS2 high speed rail link would be.
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HS2 costs could rise to £106bn, says government review
The Prime Minister’s plans to boost growth in newly-won Northern and Midlands constituencies is being put under pressure – by questions over the cost of the HS2 rail project.
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Cancelling HS2 ‘would be one of most extraordinary things possible to imagine new government doing’ – Lord Adonis
Labour peer Lord Adonis speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about what the future might hold for HS2.
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‘Projects of this scale are having a global impact’ – Chris Packham on HS2
Joining me now are environmental campaigner, Chris Packham, and Director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Henry Murison.
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What impact will HS2 have on wildlife?
Ancient woodlands and animals like the barn owl and water vole are the subject of a new report, which claims the scale of destruction that HS2 would bring, is not a price worth paying.
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Wildlife organisations call for halt to HS2
It promised to be the greenest high speed railway of its kind in the world. But HS2 has been plagued with doubts, delays and overspend since its inception, and now leading wildlife organisations have come together to call for the government to rethink their high speed line, claiming it will destroy ancient woodland. They say…
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FactCheck Q&A: How does HS2 compare to other bullet trains?
HS2 has come under repeated criticism for bad planning and wasting money. Even the Department for Transport’s own former Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Roderick Smith has called for a “root-and-branch review” of the whole project. So what’s really going on? And how does the project compare to other high speed trains across the world?
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HS2 routes revealed
The Government has announced the route for the second phase of the high-speed rail line HS2, from Crewe to Manchester and the West Midlands to Leeds. But there’s still uncertainity over one of the routes through South Yorkshire.
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Speed up HS2 and scrap link to channel tunnel – Higgins
The northern section of the £50bn high-speed rail line should be completed faster and the link with HS1 scrapped, according to HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins.
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HS2 will be ‘brought in faster, earlier and cheaper’
A new report on the HS2 rail link to cut train times between London and Birmingham will confirm it will be fast-tracked and cheaper – although won’t be rubber-stamped before the 2015 general election.