Critics say the project's costs are 'utterly out of control' and that progress has been so slow due to how contracts were ...

HS2 is a project for a high-speed rail line linking some of the country’s largest cities. Here we take a look at where the high-speed route will cover once completed and the costs involved. HS2 ...

A new map shows the dramatic changes to HS2 after Rishi Sunak confirmed he was ”ending the long-running saga” of the high-speed project from Birmingham to Manchester. Making his first conference ...

Then-prime minister Boris Johnson gives HS2 the go-ahead in February, re-setting the so-called funding envelope. Phase 1 is set at £44.6bn (at 2019 prices), while the estimated cost for the full ...

Rishi Sunak scraps the rest of the HS2 rail project in England due to spiralling ... leader - Liz Truss - rather unhelpfully played to a full house on the fringe too, calling for the tax cuts ...

On 18 September, Nick Thomas-Symonds, a minister in the shadow cabinet, assured BBC Radio 4’s PM programme: “We will build HS2 in full, and we will build Northern Powerhouse Rail in full.

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BUNGLING HS2 bosses have no clue how much taxpayers' cash has been spent on luxury lodging for newts, The Sun can reveal. Rail chiefs confessed they can't even put a price on their "newt hotels ...

HS2’s boss says the Birmingham-to-London rail project needs a full reset, with no confirmed start date. The government is promising changes – but questions remain over delays and delivery.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s HS2 railway line is a case study “in how not to run a project”, according to a group of MPs ...

HS2 is currently set to cost the taxpayer more than £80 billion by the time the full-scale railway line opens at some point in the 2030s. It has been beset by astronomical costs that spiralled so ...

The Small Dean viaduct, stretching 345 metres, is one of 50 major viaducts on the HS2 project. The viaduct's concrete and steel deck was assembled to its full length before the slide began ...