Transport secretary Heidi Alexander blames Conservative government for ‘obscene increase in times and costs’The HS2 high-speed railway will now cost up to £102.7bn and trains will not start running between London and Birmingham until as late as 2039, the government has admitted – £70bn more and 13 years later than originally promised.The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, said the truncated railway would not be entirely completed until as late as 2043. Continue reading...
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander blames Conservative government for ‘obscene increase in times and costs’
The HS2 high-speed railway will now cost up to £102.7bn and trains will not start running between London and Birmingham until as late as 2039, the government has admitted – £70bn more and 13 years later than originally promised.
The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, said the truncated railway would not be entirely completed until as late as 2043.
Continue reading...
The Competition and Markets Authority has fined Wayfair, Appliances Direct, and Gold's Gym £6m in total.
Russell Brand back in Southwark crown court today where his rape and sexual assault trial beginsTaking jurors through th...
Rapper to visit Lincolnshire town 16 years after saying he had never been there in his hit Pass OutThe rapper Tinie Temp...
Prime minister tells PMQs that the Green party motion was ‘wrong’ and says no way Labour would make a dealPMQs is about...
William Chapman was attacked by the tiger after he entered its pen at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
Yvette Cooper acknowledges ‘unthinkable pain’ caused by practice between 1930s and 1980s after campaign by Wirral woman...
