HS2 is given highest ‘red’ risk warning as government experts warn delivering the major project on time and in-budget is ‘unachievable’ Red ratings are given when ‘successful delivery’ appears to be ‘unachievable’ Oakervee Review warned last year that final bill for HS2 could reach £106 billion PM Boris Johnson gave the green light for the … Read more
Revealed: First pictures of two 2,000-tonne boring machines that will dig giant tunnels 260 feet below the ground for the HS2 railway line The 34-feet-long tunnelling machines are currently being assembled in Germany They will be shipped to Britain and commence drilling operations later this year The public can vote on the machine names — … Read more
MPs issue scathing attack on the soaring £100billion cost of HS2 and warn the rail project’s bosses have been ‘blindsided by reality’ The verdict from the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee comes just three months after the Prime Minister gave the project the green light. The project’s expected cost is soaring to as high as £106billion By … Read more
A group of HS2 protesters have spent the six-week lockdown camping near an ancient woodland which is being destroyed to make way for the high-speed railway. The protesters have chosen to self isolate in the woodland near Kenilworth, Warwickshire in a camp comprising of a roundhouse made from hay bales, a field kitchen, and around … Read more