In March, the government says anti-HS2 protests and the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the project facing additional "cost pressures" of £800m. In June, the Tories' shock by-election ...

High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd says that delays caused by a ... The project had seen widespread disapproval from locals with residents staging a protest in February against the disruption and handing ...

The company behind the HS2 rail project said taxpayers could face a bill running into "tens of millions of pounds" after a key phase of the scheme was blocked. Permission for an underground ...

A giant HS2 boring machine has broken through to complete the first section of a 3.5-mile tunnel on the route’s approach into Birmingham. The 125-metre long, 1,600-tonne machine, named Mary Ann ...

In 2017, a 21-year-old student named Joe Furness made headlines with a travel hack. Faced with a £79 rail fare from Newcastle to London, Furness instead booked a flight to the Spanish island of ...

Residents have described the hell of living in a village dubbed the "worst-affected" by HS2 - after their small community was carved in half by a 700m tunnel. Burton Green, in Warwickshire, now lies ...

Last January marked a huge milestone for Birmingham as long-awaited construction work on the city’s HS2 station got under way. The terminus station has been taking shape since that historic moment, ...