Steve Robson

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Steve Robson

Heidi Alexander has told MPs she is “drawing a line in the sand” on HS2 after confirming the rail project will face yet more delays and cost increases. Years of mismanagement and botched decision-making have held the project back, the Transport Secretary said. She revealed that costs on HS2 escalated by £37bn between 2012 and 2024 when Labour came into Government, arguing that successive Conservative governments are ultimately responsible.

1 week ago | msn.com | Steve Robson

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1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Steve Robson

A second major rail project has launched an internal investigation into the supply of labour after allegations of “large-scale” tax fraud at HS2, The i Paper can reveal. The TransPennine Route Upgrade (TRU), an £11.5bn programme of rail improvements between York and Manchester via Leeds, is conducting an internal probe over the conduct of Danny Sullivan Group, a sub-contractor that supplies construction workers for the project.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Steve Robson

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2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Steve Robson

When Annette Herfkens saw the images of a man miraculously walking away from the Air India flight disaster on Thursday she had one thought in her mind: “Please, leave him alone.”Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British man who had been visiting relatives in India, was sitting in seat 11A and somehow suffered only minor facial injuries when the Gatwick-bound Boeing 787 crashed shortly after take off in Ahmedabad.