Some Recent News Items
Plaid Cymru: Labour Government’s failure to secure funding from £80bn HS2 project for Wales is exposed
Yorkshire Post: McLoughlin...
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Welsh Questions on HS2
This week, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood stoked up the argument about Wales being short-changed by HS2 at First Minister’s Questions in the Senedd. The answer she got was simply wrong, as explained by Eurfyl ap Gwilym in this article
Spectator Poems
Earlier this autumn, the Spectator ran a competition for poems about HS2. They published them in last week’s edition,...
A questionable point of view
Originally published here on HS2 and the Environment.
James Strachan QC, Counsel for the Promoter, recently told the...
Welsh row could see official HS2 cost rise to £66.3bn
A fortnight ago, Stop HS2 reported that the official cost of HS2 had jumped to £63.1bn following...
Delaying all the decisions
While there were rumours that the decision on expansion at Gatwick or Heathrow was supposed to be made...
Manchester to Munich – Forget it
In last week’s HS2 documents, the rail link between HS2 and HS1 was formally dropped, with to be replaced...
So what is the status of the HS2 Manchester Airport station?
One of the issues which had been floating about for a while is how likely the Government are to...
HS2 Ltd “Guilty of a number of failings”
Last week, we reported on the fact the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman had found HS2 Ltd guilty of maladministration. Here is how BBC Midlands Today covered the story.
Once more the cost of HS2 speeds up
From 51M:
Ever since HS2 was given the go ahead in January, 2012 those challenging the project have claimed...