内容摘要：“Over the last 12 months I have repeatedly warned that the increasing costs we are shouldering are wholly unsustainable.

“Over the last 12 months I have repeatedly warned that the increasing costs we are shouldering are wholly unsustainable.

Chris Patting, who lives in Kenilworth, said the traffic had been "quite shocking" and it had been "difficult to get anywhere in the car".Another resident, Mike Hull, said he had seen cars driving on the footpath and been avoiding going into town "at all costs" due to the diversion route.

"The HGVs are really struggling to get round the small streets. As a pedestrian, it's a bit of run to get into the park for safety," he said.National Highways spokesperson Victoria Lazenbyand said she knew the people of Kenilworth and Stoneleigh would have "felt it the most".

A giant HS2 boring machine has broken through to complete the first section of a three and-a-half mile (5.6km) tunnel on the route's approach into Birmingham.The 125m (137yd) long, 1,600-tonne machine emerged on Friday morning after 652 days and nights of construction work.

The device was named Mary Ann by the local community in a nod to the Warwickshire-born writer George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans

The tunnel is the first of two bores of the Bromford Tunnel, running from Water Orton in north Warwickshire to Washwood Heath in Birmingham, passing under the area's motorway network and the River Tame.The so-called Wagatha Christie dispute has gone back to the High Court, with Rebekah Vardy challenging the "sheer magnitude" of the legal costs claimed by Coleen Rooney from their 2022 libel trial.

Mrs Vardy lost that case after a judge ruled it was "substantially true" that she had leaked Mrs Rooney's private information to the press.The judge ordered her to pay 90% of Mrs Rooney's costs, which has reached more than £1.8m, including a stay at a luxury hotel, drinks and items from the mini-bar for one of her lawyers, Mrs Vardy's barrister said.

Mrs Rooney's barrister argued the costs could have been lower if Mrs Vardy had "conducted this litigation appropriately".Jamie Carpenter KC, representing Mrs Vardy, said Mrs Rooney's total included costs for a lawyer staying "at the Nobu Hotel, incurring substantial dinner and drinks charges as well as mini bar charges".