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Anti-HS2 activists build 30-foot ‘protest tower’ to block bridge
Workers prepare the moulds for the concrete tunnel headwall in one of the two pre-cast factories built at the HS2 construction site in Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, ahead of tunnelling to start in 2021

ANTI-HS2 activists have built a 30-foot high tower in the River Colne to block contractors from constructing a bridge. 

The campaigners say the action is to highlight the “needless and brutal destruction” of Denham Country Park nature reserve in Uxbridge, West London. 

HS2 contractors have been felling trees in the reserve since June to clear the path for a road to relocate power lines. 

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