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HS2 today began the search for a specialist contractor to deliver the high-tech monitoring systems that will enable remote supervisory control of railway assets and systems by key operational personnel allowing the UK to run some of the world’s most reliable, safe and efficient high-speed rail services.

Nineteen-year-old Lisa-Marie from London is defying gender biases. As a civil engineering apprentice helping to build Britain’s new railway, she’s flying the flag for women and girls working in the construction sector to mark International Women’s Day (8^th March 2021).

Women aiming to get back into employment after a career break, or who are looking for a new start, are encouraged to consider a career on board Britain’s new railway, HS2.

• The plans represent the biggest single landscape and habitat creation project within HS2’s Green Corridor programme
• The project will contribute towards a localised net gain in biodiversity within the Colne Valley
• 127 hectares of new chalk grassland, woodland, wood pasture and wetland habitats to be created
• 65,000 trees and shrubs of 32 species, and 3.5km of new hedgerows to be planted
• New CGIs released showing what the area will look like: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/c9U8W40fCuR0

• HS2 launches competition for people in Warwickshire to name the 2,000 tonne tunnel boring machine that will dig under Long Itchington Wood
• Local schools, colleges and scouts already signed up
• Warwickshire County Council starts the ball rolling with suggestion of famous local author George Eliot
• Three shortlisted names will be put to a national public vote in the summer
• Photos of the TBM in the factory before it was transported to Warwickshire here and a video here about the tunnel
• People can submit names on the online competition portal here: https://www.hs2.org.uk/long-itchington-tunnel/ 

A family-run British business is among the growing number of UK companies providing supplies and services to support the safe construction of Britain’s new railway, HS2.