Protesters against HS2 have been dismissed as nimbys,but there’s more at stake than house prices. Is there no future for life in the late lane?Ron Ryall, wearing an oil-smudged blue boilersuit, and was fettling a cream Morris Minor in his low wooden workshop on a lane where the suburbs of West Ruislip give way to scrapyards,dog kennels and horse paddocks. A strong whiff of solvents filled his shed and the rain battered on the roof. Ryall was born in a council house on this lane and started his car bodywork repair commerce there in 1962; it remained, he said, or his own little world.
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Source: theguardian.com