HS2: heavy machinery 'could destabilise Euston protest tunnels'

Safety expert expresses doubt that team conducting eviction of protesters have requisite skills

Heavy machinery such as cherry pickers being used in the vicinity of the Euston tunnel could destabilise it, says a safety expert who has raised a number of concerns about the way the eviction of the HS2 protesters is being carried out.

Peter Faulding, who has worked in specialist rescue for a number of decades, is advising the legal team for the protesters in the case now being brought by Dr Larch Maxey, 48, one of the activists in the tunnel against HS2 in the high court on behalf of all of the activists in the Euston tunnel.