The Department for Transport (DfT) has clocked up around £2.7bn in losses over the past two years due to cancelled HS2 plans ...

In the previous report, in June 2011, HS2 was graded as “amber”. The November report raised the project’s alert status to “amber-red”, meaning that its success was assessed as “in doubt”. The ...

The UK government and the company behind the country’s troubled HS2 high speed railroad failed to accurately assess the program’s complexity and risk, leading to huge cost hikes and schedule delays, ...

Scrapping the northern leg of HS2 would be a 'disaster' for Manchester, according to the city's Labour mayor Andy Burnham. This week, he went so far as to call the prospect 'madness' that would 'risk ...

A slower and cheaper 50-mile railway line could be built in place of a scrapped section of HS2, a new report has revealed. The report commissioned by mayors of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands ...

A new evidence report reveals fundamental flaws in the way HS2 Ltd has assessed the value of nature along the construction path of the new UK high-speed railway, HS2. The report, called ‘HS2 double ...

Building HS2 will unleash a 'vast scale of destruction... and push nature to the brink' says a new report published by 14 Wildlife Trusts today. Claiming the report contains the most detailed ...

TENS of millions of pounds could be invested across the region - including £100m just in Darlington - due to the HS2 high-speed rail project, a new Government-backed report today claims. However ...

MPs are to question the transport secretary over a report that predicted the HS2 high-speed rail project would boost the UK economy by £15bn a year. Patrick McLoughlin, as well as the report's authors ...

Glyn Davis Wood in Warwickshire is threatened by HS2, says the Wildlife Trust HS2 risks dividing and destroying "huge swathes" of "irreplaceable" natural habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands, a ...

A slower and cheaper 50-mile railway line could be built in place of a scrapped section of HS2, a new report has revealed. The alternative route between Staffordshire and Cheshire, which would connect ...