A blueprint for the £32.7bn High Speed 2 (HS2) rail line published today signals a delay in plans to build a spur to Heathrow Airport until 2015 at the earliest. The Government has put on hold plans for a spur of the London-Birmingham section of the line pending the results of Sir Howard Davies’ review of future airport capacity which is not due to give a final report until the summer of 2015. The planned route will now have five new ...