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The ground gave way to the massive chamber, measuring roughly six feet deep and ten feet wide, earlier today on Heywood Road, Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

HS2 Ltd says the hole near Little Missenden could be linked to "pre-existing ground conditions".

HS2 is investigating how a roughly 6 square metre pool of bubbling slurry emerged on a rugby pitch in Ruislip, north-west London. The brown foam emerged

A judge grants an 'extensive' injunction in order to prevent access without permission to HS2 land or disruption taking place to its construction.

Jenni Bartram, Harrowells Solicitors Jenni Bartram writes about how the Government’s net zero emissions ambitions may affect farming The recently delivered Queen’s Speech unsurprisingly, in view of the aim to be a net zero emissions economy by 2050, gave huge weight to the Government’s intended environmental schemes; so this is perhaps a good time to highlight how some of these may affect the farming industry. Animal welfare is high on the agenda, to be delivered by the Animal Welfa...

Archaeologists will move thousands of bodies from the site of a medieval church that lies along the route of the HS2 railway. The remains of St Marys Church in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, built in the 11th century, are being carefully excavated to allow work on the high speed line to continue. HS2 says all artefacts and human remains that are removed will be treated with dignity, care and respect, and that the work will shine a light on almost 900 years of history at the site. All discov...

The exhumation is not the first during the development of the controversial rail link. In 2017 an estimated 60,000 bodies were disinterred from a former burial site at Euston station. The bodies were later reburied at Brookwood cemetery in Surrey. The ancient church was renovated in the 13th, 14th and 17th centuries. It played a central role in the community and was subject to a variety of extensions and the construction of a brick bell tower. The old church was abandoned and fell into disrepai...

HS2 Ltd has been cleared to resume work at the Jones Hill Wood High Speed 2 (HS2) site near Wendover in the Chilterns, after a judge lifted a court order to pause tree felling in the area. Today a judge formally lifted the injunction which was preventing work at the site. During a hearing yesterday, Justice Holgate said that "none of the grounds of the [environmental] challenge are arguable" and therefore the injunction "must be discharged". Last night, Mark Keir from Earth Protector Communitie...

Last modified on Tue 27 Apr 2021 10.47 EDT A high court judge has overturned a ban on the cutting down of trees in the path of the HS2 rail link in Buckinghamshire woodland implemented over concerns a rare species of bat might nest there. The decision came as a blow to anti-HS2 environmental protesters who 11 days ago had secured a high court order stopping the work so that the matter could be examined further. The campaigners say they are planning to take their case to the court of appeal in a...

HS2 Ltd is keen to appeal a court-ordered pause to its tree felling programme in the Chilterns as soon as possible, with key construction milestones coming up in the next few months. The exact construction impact remains unclear, after HS2 contractors were forced to paused the programme of tree felling at the Jones Hill Wood site near Wendover in the Chilterns. Situated between the north portal of the 16km-long Chiltern tunnel and the Wendover Dean Viaduct, the Jones Hill Wood site covers an ar...