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How HS2 has blighted my parents’ lives

My dad’s back working in a car factory at 77, a lifetime’s work wrecked by a blighted house

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

Waiting to appear before a Commons select committee, my father turned to me. ‘This was not on my bucket list,’ he said.

My father should be enjoying his retirement. Instead, he and my mother are still working full time in their seventies because they cannot sell their home due to the blight of HS2.

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