HS2 Petitioning to start in July. The Committee of MPs who will hear the petitions of people wanting changes to the HS2 Hybrid Bill has...
MPA Annual Report claims amber-red status represents ‘significant progress’. The Major Projects Authority have published their annual report, which claims that MPs voting for HS2 without...
Over budget HS2 contractors “running their own gravy train”, with average 86% overspend. Whilst the budget for professional services contracts on Phase 1 of HS2 was originally set at £101m, the total...
Everyone impacted by HS2 must get on with petitioning, now. The Stop HS2 campaign is calling on everyone who cares about the impact of HS2 to petition against the...
Sickeningly ill-informed MPs vote through HS2 Hybrid Bill, as Boris talks bollocks, again. A three-line whip from the Government benches, coupled with a rather apathetic support from Labour, meant that the second...
HS2 vote – whatever happens today , the fight won’t be over. Hundreds of Stop HS2 campaigners will be descending on Parliament today to call on MPs to vote against the...
‘Disgraceful Spin’ as HS2 Compensation Consultation concludes “Let’s have another consultation.” The Government has decided to bury bad news today, announcing a new proposal for HS2 compensation on the same...
HS2 Environmental Statement – More people leave form blank than support HS2. Two days after the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee trashed the environmental credentials of HS2, the Independent Assessors of...
MPs trash HS2 on environmental grounds The Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee has accepted the main recommendation of the Stop HS2 campaign to minimise the environmental...
More money to be thrown at ‘Field of Dreams’ HS2 project. Today, Lord Deighton has published a report from the HS2 Growth Taskforce which admits that HS2 will not deliver...