Penny Gaines, Chair and Social Media Director of Stop HS2, directs readers to the latest news from the Business Desk: ”New Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore has re-affirmed his pre-election pledge to ditch plans to turn the former LDV and Alstom sites in Washwood Heath into a high-speed rail maintenance depot.
“Instead the area will be regenerated to become The Heartlands Park Business Hub, most probably as a centre for the low carbon motor industry . . . “
From a Solihull reader by email:
Re: “Treasury civil servants are nervous about committing money to the project – predicted to cost up to £34billion – at a time when the economy is under threat” – why don’t the Treasury civil servants not have bigger nerves re Trident then… that’s a WHOLE lot more billions!!!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/31/lift-threat-nuclear-weapons?INTCMP=SRCH