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HS2 this week launched ‘Cecilia’ - the second of two enormous 2,000 tonne tunnelling machines that will excavate the ten mile long tunnels beneath the Chiltern hills just outside London. The first machine – ‘Florence’ – was launched just over a month ago.

• Extensive new landscape and wildlife areas inspired by local heritage will be created around two new HS2 viaducts over the River Cole in Warwickshire.
• New footpaths and cycleways will promote active travel and enable people to explore the rich history of the area.
• Ponds and habitats will provide homes for amphibians, dragonflies, otters, great crested newts, reptiles and badgers.
• CGI images: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/viaducts-140-miles-of-track-carried-by-over-50-viaducts/river-cole-viaducts

HS2 Ltd has today (29 June) announced the availability of six funds to support communities impacted by the construction of the next phase of Britain’s new high speed rail network from the West Midlands to Crewe.   

HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson is hosting an online event for small and medium sized businesses in the South East to demonstrate just how simple it is to register an interest in joining HS2’s supply chain.

HS2 Ltd has announced that it has been awarded the Platinum accreditation from Investors in People for its ‘We invest in Apprentices’ framework.

Construction of HS2’s Old Oak Common station will soon be underway as work to install the first permanent structure starts later today

• Transport Secretary Grant Shapps MP to give the nod to begin the first permanent construction works on an HS2 station
• 2,300 jobs will be supported to build what will become the UK’s best-connected railway ‘super-hub’, and the biggest station ever constructed in a single-stage build in the UK
• New video highlighting the world-leading engineering on the project available here: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/Rzqo4QMNYmi7
• The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP said “This ‘super-hub’ station shows our Plan for Jobs in action - kickstarting major regeneration, creating 2,300 jobs and 250 apprenticeships in construction – and underlines this Government’s determination to Build Back Better”