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The Wildlife Trusts is accusing the Government-owned company of using an accounting tool that is "fundamentally flawed" to assess its impact on nature.

More than 1.3 million cubic metres of chalk and flint, enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools, has been excavated.

The chancellor said he did not see “any conceivable circumstances” in which HS2 would not run to its planned Euston terminus.