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HS2 boss: There will be bumps until we open the new line

The High Speed Rail tunnel under Long Itchington in Warwickshire has been completed. It's taken five months to dig through, using a tunnel boring machine named after Dorothy Hodgkin - the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Mark Thurston is the CEO of HS2, and has been talking to CWR Breakfast with Phil Upton.

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