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• 1.9 million cubic metres of rock and earth to be excavated to create the two cuttings – enough to fill the Royal Albert Hall more than twenty times.

• Download new photos showing early works on HS2’s longest cutting – the 2.5 mile Barton Hartshorn to Mixbury cutting near Brackley – and the 2.1 mile Calvert cutting in Buckinghamshire.

Maria Grazia-Zedda, HS2’s workforce equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) manager, has been recognised by the Shaw Trust for her work supporting people with disabilities.

• Use of the innovative, green ‘Earth Friendly Concrete’ saves 76 tonnes of CO₂

Businesses of all sizes, right across the UK, are encouraged to register their interest in becoming an HS2 supplier and access the multi-million pound pipeline of contract opportunities with HS2’s construction partners.

• First two beehives installed on an HS2 wildlife site by the Great British Bee Project and local school children from Northamptonshire name the queen bee “Lillibee”

• Bees from the hives will help protect and expand the endangered British Black Bee right across the UK

• Photos here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/environment/ecology-work-2/the-great-british-bee-project

• Video here: Northants school children celebrate first beehives installed on HS2 wildlife site - YouTube

• HS2’s first Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) excavating HS2’s longest tunnels have completed the first 4 miles of their drive – from the Chiltern tunnel’s south portal to the second ventilation shaft at Chalfont St Giles
• Download latest photos of the Chiltern tunnel and Chalfont St Giles vent shaft