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• Use of the innovative, green ‘Earth Friendly Concrete’ saves 76 tonnes of CO₂

Businesses of all sizes, right across the UK, are encouraged to register their interest in becoming an HS2 supplier and access the multi-million pound pipeline of contract opportunities with HS2’s construction partners.

• First two beehives installed on an HS2 wildlife site by the Great British Bee Project and local school children from Northamptonshire name the queen bee “Lillibee”

• Bees from the hives will help protect and expand the endangered British Black Bee right across the UK

• Photos here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/environment/ecology-work-2/the-great-british-bee-project

• Video here: Northants school children celebrate first beehives installed on HS2 wildlife site - YouTube

• HS2’s first Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) excavating HS2’s longest tunnels have completed the first 4 miles of their drive – from the Chiltern tunnel’s south portal to the second ventilation shaft at Chalfont St Giles
• Download latest photos of the Chiltern tunnel and Chalfont St Giles vent shaft

• First of two 2,000 tonne TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machines) starts 5-mile journey towards Greenford from West Ruislip in West London 
• First machine named ‘Sushila’, after pupils nominated local teacher Sushila Hirani. Second machine named after ‘first professional’ female astronomer Caroline Herschel.  
• HS2 Ltd CEO Mark Thurston: “The launch of the TBMs on the largest section of tunnels through London is a major moment for HS2, and one that demonstrates the brilliant momentum that has built behind Britain’s flagship levelling-up project.” 

HS2 Ltd, the company building the UK’s new high speed rail line into Crewe, has given Shavington-cum-Gresty Parish Council a £9,780 grant towards the #QueenBee project.