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...Last month Sunak cancelled the northern leg of the high-speed railway line, but confirmed that HS2 would run from Euston station in the centre of London to Birmingham in the Midlands....
...Lucy Nethsingha, Liberal Democrat leader of Cambridgeshire county council, says the failure to invest in water infrastructure, or regulate private water companies to ensure they planned for future growth...
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...William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, warned that EU companies’ readiness remained a “significant unknown” for traders in agri-food products....
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...The decision prompted an outcry among northern leaders, while parliament’s public accounts committee later concluded that the remaining London-to-Birmingham portion of HS2 now offered “very poor value for...
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...The Street-led gambit has been to draw together a collection of big companies — EY, Mace, Arup, Arcadis — to look at what you do now, in the absence of HS2, and how you would fund it....
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...But from my bedroom window I could peer into our neighbour Jim’s backyard, which had fruit trees, flowers and a pumpkin patch....
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...The latest estimate for HS2 comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled what remained of the second phase of the railway from Birmingham to Manchester, citing the ballooning costs of the project and...
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