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Manchester Piccadilly station staff have joined forces with the housing charity Shelter to help people sleeping rough around the major transport hub.

Lines into Euston station will be taken out of service from 17 July to 31 August – to enable the new HS2 terminus to be built. Weekend work will also take place between mid July and the end of August. Most train services will continue running while this work takes place, but there will be some timetable and platform alterations.

Network Rail engineers have constructed what is believed to be the first ‘beaver pass’ in the country under the Highland mainline. The new tunnel has been constructed to help the protected species pass under the railway and to help prevent flooding issues caused by the animals.

Engineers working on Britain’s new high-speed railway have begun excavating the first of five shafts that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the 10-mile long tunnels they are digging under the Chiltern hills.