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Women aiming to get back into employment after a career break, or who are looking for a new start, are encouraged to consider a career on board Britain’s new railway, HS2.

• The plans represent the biggest single landscape and habitat creation project within HS2’s Green Corridor programme
• The project will contribute towards a localised net gain in biodiversity within the Colne Valley
• 127 hectares of new chalk grassland, woodland, wood pasture and wetland habitats to be created
• 65,000 trees and shrubs of 32 species, and 3.5km of new hedgerows to be planted
• New CGIs released showing what the area will look like: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/c9U8W40fCuR0

• HS2 launches competition for people in Warwickshire to name the 2,000 tonne tunnel boring machine that will dig under Long Itchington Wood
• Local schools, colleges and scouts already signed up
• Warwickshire County Council starts the ball rolling with suggestion of famous local author George Eliot
• Three shortlisted names will be put to a national public vote in the summer
• Photos of the TBM in the factory before it was transported to Warwickshire here and a video here about the tunnel
• People can submit names on the online competition portal here: https://www.hs2.org.uk/long-itchington-tunnel/ 

A family-run British business is among the growing number of UK companies providing supplies and services to support the safe construction of Britain’s new railway, HS2.

• 300,000m3 of material excavated, ready to be recycled
• 120 people have carried out earthmoving work since April 2020
• Warwickshire site now ready for tunnel boring machine to dig under ancient woodland
• Images available here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/tbms-and-tunnels-massive-machines-and-their-current-progress/long-itchington-wood-tunnel/collins-earthworks