• IT is about time they admitted the HS2 high-speed rail scheme is nothing but a vanity project.

For the sake of getting to Birmingham 15 minutes earlier (take an earlier train) people’s lives, livelihoods, and half the country is being torn up and apart on some halfwit’s flight (train journey) of fancy.

Please cancel it now before it is too late.

RUTH ANDREWS
Lismore Circus, NW5