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High Speed 2 rail infrastructure project

The LGiU looks at how the HS2 scheme has generated strong feelings within local government.

By LGiU | 13 February 2012

It's not often that infrastructure planning and pop music charts overlap, but this unlikely marriage happened over Christmas 2011 when Oak Tree Lament by Dirty Mavis – a protest song opposing HS2 – nabbed top spot on HMV's Christmas singles chart.

Justine Greening acknowledged the divisions HS2 has created by conceding that:

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