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NewsYahoo News UK'Levelling up will require systemic change', says West Yorkshire mayor
The West Yorkshire mayor has called for "radical" inventions to level up the region.
NewsYahoo News UKRevealed: 20 train routes which will now be slower than under HS2 plans
The government's new rail plan has been met with fury from politicians and businesses.
NewsYahoo News UKBoris Johnson’s own MPs turn on him over HS2 U-turn – ‘The price will be paid for generations’
A growing number of Conservative MPs for northern constituencies are
NewsYahoo News UKHS2: All the delays and U-turns on £100bn rail project since it started
The High Speed 2 £106bn project has been beset by delays and cost re-evaluations since 2009. Here's a full timeline of the setbacks to the rail network.
NewsYahoo News UKHuman remains found under city centre pavement at Birmingham HS2 site
The remains were discovered during building work on Sunday.
NewsYahoo News UKHS2 protesters in Euston tunnel at “tipping point” amid deteriorating conditions
Protesters are facing a shortage of oxygen, internal tunnel collapses and an influx of liquid mud.
ScienceYahoo News UKArchaeologists on HS2 line uncover grounds of perfectly preserved 16th-century manor gardens
Historians have been left stunned by the ancient discovery near Coleshill on the outskirts of Birmingham.
NewsYahoo News UK'Inconsolable' family slam 'despicable' HS2 for tearing down daughter's memorial tree
Children's memorial woodland was cleared by workers to make way for the high speed train line.
PoliticsYahoo News UKHS2: All the times controversial rail project was 'given the green light' during decade of protests
The government has backed the beleaguered HS2 rail project, despite years of opposition.
PoliticsYahoo News UKGovernment and HS2 bosses ‘knew high speed railway was over budget and behind schedule three years ago’
Budget concerns about the controversial railway project were raised in 2016, it has been reported.
NewsYahoo Celebrity UKJohn Bishop sells mansion to HS2 for nearly £7 million despite vocal opposition to project
John Bishop has sold his home to HS2 for £6.8 million, despite having been previously vocal critical of the high-speed rail project.
PoliticsYahoo News UKHS2 trains could run slower and less regularly in an effort to cut costs, rail boss admits
HS2's chief executive said fewer and slower trains are among the options being considered to save money.
NewsYahoo News UKFormer HS2 boss says MPs’ cost estimate for controversial rail project was ‘enormously wrong’
The cost of HS2 was vastly underestimated, according to claims made in the BBC Panorama programme.
LifestyleYahoo News UK'Largest ever' archaeological dig into centuries of British history starts along HS2 route
Work has started to excavate 60 separate sites along the 150-mile HS2 route in what is believed to be Europe's largest archaeological dig.
NewsYahoo News UKHS2 station designs for Birmingham and Solihull unveiled as work begins on 60 sites
Plans for stations at Curzon Street in central Birmingham and Interchange Station in Solihull will go on display.
NewsPolitics.co.ukHinkley Point is just another vanity project - Theresa May should ditch it
Theresa May’s announcement that the decision over Hinkley Point nuclear power station is postponed until the autumn is a sensible decision. The cost to the UK government is up to £30bn in guaranteed subsidies over 35 years but will put £37 on every household’s electricity bill for an indefinite period. Hinkley Point shares these disadvantages with another project.
