On Monday 11th February, Dispatches on Channel 4 will be covering HS2. If the title of the programme “HS2 the Great Train Robbery” wasn’t enough of a giveaway, here Dispatches reporter Liam Halligan explains to Kelvin MackKenzie what he found.
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HS2 Property Cost Forecast at Five Times the Original Estimate, FOI Shows
A Freedom of Information Response from HS2 Ltd forecasts that the final total for the cost of land and...
DfT Admit They Don’t Know How Much Has Been Spent on HS2 Property, as Lawsuit Looms
The Department for Transport has stated that it does not hold any record of how much has been spent...
An Ivory Tower for a White Elephant. How Incompetent were HS2 Ltd to not see this Coming?
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Behind the Brexit Firewall, HS2 has been Trundling on at Panic Stations with Increased Costs, Incompetence, Spin and Fraud.
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Suppliers to HS2 and Crossrail Admit to Running Illegal Cartel
Two firms which supply the crisis hit HS2 and Crossrail projects have admitted they ran a...
Protesters try to stop the risk of HS2 contaminating London’s water supply
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Today, protesters have attempted to...
Morgan “Sacked by Mutual Consent” as Chair of HS2 – and Crossrail
After it was first reported last Friday that HS2 Ltd chair Sir Terry Morgan was going to be sacked,...
Government to Sack HS2 Chair Morgan After Just 4 Months
In another setback for the troubled HS2 rail project, the Financial Times has reported that the Government is...
Boss refuses to reveal ‘cost gap’ of ‘unaffordable’ HS2
Mark Thurston, the boss of HS2 Ltd has refused to admit how far over budget the project is running,...