HS2 will cut London to Birmingham Airport journey time to less than an hour - quicker than getting to 'London' Stansted!

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 01:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Birmingham Airport could be a realistic option for flying in and out of London when the High Speed 2 rail line opens, experts said today as journey times from the West End will be slashed to under an…

HS2 executive on over £235,000 a year claims £5.40 Tube journey to attend a meeting

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 11:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Chief Railway Officer Emma Head submitted three small claims for London Underground journeys in October and November last year.

Anger as quango which prompted HS2 to build a bat tunnel to be handed new powers to purchase land to offset damage done to nature by new developments

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 07:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Labour 's planning bill will enable Natural England to 'acquire land compulsorily' to build nature reserves and other havens for wildlife.

Revealed: How much HS2 rail chiefs have spent on LEGO - as costs spiral towards £80billion

found 2025 › Mar › 09 (Sun) @ 12:02 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

HS2 cashed out thousands on a model station made out of Lego - spending the equivalent of £1 per plastic brick - and used it at 20 events in two years.

The city overrun by rats where rodents the size of cats lurk in bins, swarms take over train stations... and the Labour council which has started charging people a 'rat tax' to get rid of them

found 2025 › Mar › 05 (Wed) @ 21:34 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Residents of the Midlands city have said ongoing bin strikes, an increase in fly-tipping and HS2 building work has sparked an invasion of pesky rats and mice, as they continue to find rats at every c…

Our street has been invaded by rats as big as CATS - they are attacking cars and jumping out of wheelie bins

found 2025 › Mar › 03 (Mon) @ 13:23 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Locals in Labour-run Birmingham say they are being plagued by the rodents more than ever due to an ongoing bin strikes, an increase in fly-tipping and HS2 building work.

Can we build it? No – because Britain may not have enough workers

found 2025 › Feb › 02 (Sun) @ 08:41 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Rachel Reeves’s s bold infrastructure plans for Heathrow, transport, housing and more rely on training a new generation of construction professionals before the shovels go in the ground

Even a nonexi…

HS2 boss defends spending £100m on ‘bat shed’ that Starmer described as ‘absurd’ – UK politics live

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 13:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Mark Wild also admitted that HS2 had been rushed and ‘construction started way too early’

In her response to the statement from Karin Smyth, Caroline Johnson, the shadow health minister, suggested the…

HS2 costs could balloon to eyewatering £86BILLION - £9billion more than previous estimate

found 2024 › Dec › 18 (Wed) @ 13:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Transport ministers confirmed the new calculation in a written statement last night from figures provided by the HS2 board.