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Pupils from Chipping Warden Primary Academy enjoyed a different start to the school day with a ‘site safari tour’ of HS2’s construction sites.

• ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ to feature HS2’s first completed tunnel in Warwickshire 
• Journalist, broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo visited HS2’s Long Itchington Wood site to film inside the tunnel 
• It will be aired in the ‘Long Itchington to Moseley’ episode on BBC Two at 6.30pm on Wednesday 19 July 

HS2’s construction partners have joined forces to deliver a new education programme for young people in Ealing with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

• Spoil is being taken to Kent, Cambridge and Rugby
• 110,000 lorry movements taken off roads so far
• Video about the HS2 London Logistics operation available here: HS2’s London Logistics Hub celebrates processing one million tonnes of spoil - YouTube 

• £5 million HS2 Woodland Fund supports new woodlands creation and ancient woodland restoration projects on Phase One
• £1.75m already awarded to projects, with 330,000 trees planted
• £3.25m still available for landowners near the Phase One route
• Video of West Wycombe Estate in Buckinghamshire - one of the projects which has received funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjaF8hMgnHI 

• HS2 Ltd’s long standing Chief Executive Officer, Mark Thurston, is to step down from Europe’s largest infrastructure project
• HS2 Ltd Chairman, Sir Jon Thompson, will become Executive Chairman for an interim period from October 2023