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HS2: Chesham and Amersham by-election candidates policies
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image captionHS2 trains, of which this is a proposed design, will travel at speeds of up to 250mph (400km/h) and could halve journey times between London, Midlands and North
When voters head to the polls on Thursday to elect a new MP for Chesham and Amersham, one of the key issues will be the multi-billion pound HS2 railway project
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The by-election follows the death of Dame Cheryl Gillan in April, and had served as Conservative MP since she was first elected in 1992.
She spent years campaigning against the new high speed rail line from London to the Midlands and beyond, which had been a big talking point in the constituency since it was first proposed under the Labour government in 2009.
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Gill Steward will join Cumbria CC as chief executive in August once the move is approved by full council. Ms Steward is the current chair of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies thinktank. She was chief executive for Bexley LBC from 2016 to 2018 and interim chief executive of West Sussex CC between 2014 and 2016.
Gillian Beasley, chief executive of Cambridgeshire CC and Peterborough City Council, is retiring. Ms Beasley has been at the helm of Peterborough for 19 years and, in addition, was six years ago appointed to run Cambridgeshire in a unique county council/unitary arrangement. In 2008 she was awarded an OBE for her work in local government.