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Amersham Cricket Club receives grant from HS2 Community Fund for pavilion refurbishment
22 Mar 2021- £65,000 grant awarded from HS2 Community and Environment Fund
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HS2 Fund supports Warwick Arts Centre 20:20 project
19 Mar 2021Warwick Arts Centre has been successful in its bid to the HS2 Community and Environment Fund (CEF) and has secured £250,000 towards its Warwick 20:20 project. The project involves replacing the existing cinema with new state of the art facilities and relocating the Mead Gallery
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HS2 Community Fund helps replace windows at Prestwood Methodist Church
19 Mar 2021Prestwood Methodist Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, is one of the latest beneficiaries of the HS2 Community and Environment Fund (CEF) as they have been successful in their bid for a £4,000 grant towards the cost of replacing four windows in the main hall at Prestwood Methodist Church.
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HS2 casts first of 112,000 Chiltern tunnel wall segments ahead of TBM launch
18 Mar 2021- Latest milestone in the countdown to the launch of HS2’s first giant tunnelling machines – Florence and Cecilia
- New photographs showing work inside the vast temporary pre-cast factory can be found here: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/4nP6HKFPqjgB
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River diversion in Warwickshire avoided as a result of HS2 design refinements
17 Mar 2021- Realignment of Canley Brook near Kenilworth reduced from 700 metres to just 80 metres diversion
- Savings of 600,000 cubic metres of excavated material and 28,000 cubic metres of concrete
- 2,500 lorry movements removed from local roads
- New design images here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/viaducts-140-miles-of-track-carried-by-over-50-viaducts/canley-brook
- People can find out more at a free webinar on 25 March: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hs2-bbv-canley-brook-design-update-webinar-tickets-143073074417
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HS2 begins work on UK’s longest rail viaduct
16 Mar 2021HS2 began work this week on the UK’s longest railway bridge, with an expert team of ground engineers sinking the first of almost 300 piles that will form the foundations for the Colne Valley Viaduct.