Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the scrapping of Phase 2 of the HS2 rail project ... the under-construction London-to-Birmingham route, further north to Manchester, but "delays and ...

The UK’s High Speed Two (HS2) has completed the civil engineering phase at the Long Itchington Wood Tunnel in Warwickshire, ...

saving £2 billion. The line – nicknamed HS2-lite – would use conventional tracks rather than the expensive “slab track” used on the first phase of HS2 between London and Birmingham.

Aerial footage shows the London to Birmingham leg of the HS2 high-speed rail network – and the current state of its construction. On Thursday the next phase, which will run from the West ...