Ministers must set out how they will ease congestion and boost rail links in the North in the wake of the decision to scrap ...

HS2 chiefs will lead work on a new Manchester-Liverpool line - ministers say finding an alternative would cost more for the ...

Dairy farmer John Edge intended to sell his Victorian farmhouse and barns after retirement - Paul Cooper Kathy O’Donoghue stands outside the Methodist chapel that is something of a focal point for the ...

The stunted HS2 project costs continue to rise. Credit: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images A report by the UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed the true cost of the cancellation of Phase 2 ...

Digging machine Florence completes HS2’s longest tunnel, a 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills, in February 2024 - Aaron Chown/PA In 2019, HS2 Ltd’s new chairman, Allan Cook, an engineer, told ...

After years of setbacks, controversy and spiralling costs, phase two of the long-awaited HS2 rail project appears to be under threat. The Independent has exclusively revealed that prime minister Rishi ...

LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The new Labour government will not revive a plan to build a high speed railway line from the central English city of Birmingham to northern England, a source said, denying ...

Committee Chair Meg Hillier said there were still many questions around the project even after a decade of warnings. Credit: Christopher Furlong via Getty Images The UK’s “High Speed 2” (HS2) project ...

MANCHESTER, England, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Britain's second and third cities on Friday published plans for a new railway to counter the blow of last year's government decision to gut much of the HS2 ...