High Speed 2 (HS2) is the UK's most ambitious infrastructure project in decades - costing upwards of £100 billion. Designed ...

Emma Head, HS2's chief railway officer and one of the highest-paid officials in government, filed the small claims for travel ...

also includes further railway tracks linking Leeds to Newcastle and Manchester to Glasgow. The project will be delivered by High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd, a company established by the government.

HS2 launched with the commitment to deliver "a high-speed line connecting central London to the northern cities", said Politico, but it currently looks "unlikely to reach Manchester, Leeds – or ...

(see map) The original argument for HS2 was largely based on reducing journey times from the cities of Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham to central London. The way governments have traditionally ...

An HS2 executive earning more than £250,000 a year claimed £5.40 on expenses for a Tube journey to attend a meeting, it has been revealed. Emma Head submitted three claims for journeys on the ...

Using a 750-tonne (750,000kg) crane, engineers installed the last of seven steel beams for the 66m (216.5ft) structure at the A43 near Brackley, Northamptonshire as part of HS2. The work began in ...

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 ...

A HS2 executive earning more than £235,000 a year ... which would have connected London with Manchester and Leeds. When first mooted by the Gordon Brown government, costs for the entire project ...