The northern leg of HS2 could be replaced with a new privately funded railway under government plans to boost economic growth. Ministers are considering reviving plans for a new high-speed line ...

Act through Parliament. After receiving the go ahead from Natural England for the design, HS2 Ltd was forced to spend 'hundreds of thousands of pounds' on lawyers and environmental specialists ...

The Welsh government's former top legal advisor has called Labour UK ministers' decision not to allocate consequential funding to Wales for HS2 high speed rail "unacceptable". Mick Antoniw told ...

He made the comments days after an influential group of MPs described HS2 as an example of ‘how not to run a major project’. HS2 will “prove its worth”, the boss of the company building ...

The UK’s HS2 has announced a significant milestone at Long Itchington Wood Tunnel in Warwickshire – the first deep tunnel on the high-speed route to complete its civil engineering phase. The ...

High-speed rail between London and Birmingham may never be delivered because the government and HS2 lack “the skills or capacities” to complete the project, a powerful committee of MPs has warned.