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Leaked report urges troubled HS2 should get the go-ahead despite costs...
TROUBLED HS2 should go ahead despite costs soaring to £88billion, a review will recommend.A leaked copy of the report advises ministers to commit to completing the high-speed rail network even though...
View ArticleScrapping HS2 might not be popular in the North — but it’s massively flawed...
IT seems that the HS2 gravy train is impossible to stop, no matter how much its finances go off the rails – or at least until the election is over.A review into the high-speed rail scheme, leaked...
View ArticleBoris Johnson needs to pull the plug on the obscenely expensive HS2 line...
HS2 should be scrapped. Boris Johnson must pull the plug before it is too late.For years The Sun has given this vast rail project the benefit of the doubt.PA:Press Association HS2’s £108billion budget...
View ArticleIt’s not the billions we have wasted on HS2 that matters – it’s the billions...
WITH Boris Johnson calling for the slaughter of “sacred cows”, will HS2 be put out of its misery?Big, expensive projects are being sized up by Downing Street — and the super-train looks set to get the...
View ArticleThe Government’s commitment to HS2 could help keep new Tory voters on board
“NO one disagrees with what the Government is trying to do but what they do worry about, is the capacity of the state to deliver it,” one Tory grandee tells me.This figure’s concern is that Boris...
View ArticleWe can hold onto historical institutions and still be a modern country
A MAN with a serious face went on television this week to say Britain desperately needs HS2 and work must begin immediately.It was hard to argue with this.Millions of foreign visitors come every year...
View ArticleBoris Johnson’s £5bn funding boost for buses and HS2 will help parts of...
TUESDAY’S announcement that HS2 has been given the green light may be good news for the Midlands and the North — but it was Boris’s £5billion for buses that most impressed me.Millions of hard-working...
View ArticleOnly ones who’ll benefit from HS2 are Londoners – so there’s no surprise there
GREAT news, then. At some unspecified point in the future you’ll be able to travel from London to Birmingham ten minutes faster than you can now.By unspecified date I mean about 2075. Long after I’ve...
View ArticleDefiant Swampy will put ‘life on the line’ as he refuses to leave 100ft...
DEFIANT eco-warrior Swampy has said he will put his “life on the line” after refusing to leave the 100ft protest tunnel.The protesters, fighting to stop the “monstrous” HS2, are living in underground...
View ArticleHS2 eco-activists warn they’re at ‘tipping point’ with tunnel collapses and...
ECO-WARRIORS fighting HS2 have warned they’ve reached “tipping point” as their 100ft underground tunnel network begins to collapse.The protesters – including long-time campaigner Swampy – have been...
View ArticleHS2 eco-warrior and daughter of Scottish laird, 18, says tunnel is collapsing...
THE teen daughter of a Scottish laird who is holed up in a collapsing tunnel in a bid to stop HS2 has warned bailiffs are “threatening our lives”.Eco-warrior Blue Sandford, 18, is one of a group of...
View ArticleMillionaire dad of two HS2 eco-warriors holed up in tunnels underneath London...
THE millionaire dad of two young HS2 protesters holed up in a tunnel beneath London has today told of his pride in his children.Scottish laird Roc Sandford spoke out as fears grew for the safety of the...
View ArticleEco-warrior Swampy slammed for taking son, 16, into HS2 protest tunnel
ECO-warrior Swampy has been labelled reckless for taking his 16-year-old son into the HS2 protest tunnel.The veteran campaigner, 47, said he was proud of teenager Rory for joining him...
View ArticleVeteran eco-warrior Swampy competing with fellow protesters over who’ll be...
ECO-warrior Swampy is competing with his fellow protesters over who gets to stay in the HS2 protest tunnel the longest.And the veteran campaigner, 47, is said to be desperate to be last out.Eco-warrior...
View ArticleHS2 eco-warrior arrested after spending more than a week in tunnel
AN anti-HS2 eco-warrior who spent more than a week underground has been arrested after leaving his tunnel.Lazer Sandford, 20, was among six people dug in outside Euston Station in London in protest...
View ArticleSwampy’s son smiles as he’s stretchered away from HS2 Euston tunnel protest...
SWAMPY’S eco-warrior son grinned as he was carried away from the HS2 tunnel underneath London Euston station today – after 22 days underground.Rory Hooper, 16, told reporters ‘I can’t wait to see my...
View ArticleEco-warrior Swampy among three activists to leave HS2 protest site – with one...
ECO-warrior Swampy was among three activists to leave an HS2 protest site yesterday — but one remains underground.Blue Sandford, 18 — the daughter of Scottish millionaire Roc Sandford — and an unnamed...
View ArticleEco-warrior Swampy bailed after appearing in court over HS2 tunnel protest
ECO-warrior Swampy was bailed yesterday after appearing in court over the HS2 tunnel protest.Swampy, real name Daniel Hooper, 48, was one of three activists arrested on Thursday when they finally...
View ArticleBoris Johnson hints North is set for major rail boost to build Britain back...
BORIS Johnson hinted the north is set for a major infrastructure boost to railroad the nation to build back from the pandemic.The PM, speaking to railway chiefs yesterday, outlined plans to speed up...
View ArticleOver 3,000 bodies will be ‘dug up and moved’ from medieval English burial...
AROUND 3,000 bodies will have to be dug up from a medieval graveyard and reburied due to ongoing HS2 rail link work.Thousands of human skeletons are currently buried at the site of the old St Mary’s...
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