All news on the topic: Infrastructure

With only 12 weeks remaining before his first budget, the new chancellor, John Healey, is exploring ways to increase public investment without breaking the Treasury’s fiscal rules – and some economists are encouraging him to be bold.

North Bridge is finally set to fully reopen after eight years of work, with all four traffic lanes and both pavements free to use.

A company selected to construct Kyrgyzstan’s Asman eco-city is owned by a Chinese man who previously was co-owner of a company alongside the son of the head of a state agency involved in the project.

Why is it so expensive to build infrastructure in Britain? One common explanation is that essentially we lack practice. For example, Britain has electrified its railways in fits-and-bursts. In the late 80s, Britain electrified over 400 kilometres of track each year.

Thirty-two people, including the former chief executive of Italy’s motorway operator, have been convicted over the 2018 collapse of a Genoa bridge in which 43 people died.

A brand new school that cost £31million to build is set to be demolished in a shocking “waste of taxpayers’ money”.

Councillors have backed initial plans to connect some of Shetland’s islands with undersea tunnels, which could be in place within eight years.

The head of a major airline alliance that includes Lufthansa and United has likened Heathrow’s third runway plans to an unaffordable luxury car as he urged the airport to cut back some parts of the “eye-watering” project.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander approved the £2.2 billion scheme in September, which would have seen the West Sussex airport move its emergency runway 12 metres north to accommodate around 100,000 more flights a year.

Britain’s biggest union must prioritize fighting Reform UK, Unison’s conference heard today after its general secretary urged the government to drastically change course.

A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found.

According to sources, Pyotr Biryukov, Moscow’s long-serving deputy mayor, may not have his contract renewed when it expires this July.

Trying to settle on a Memorandum of Understanding to end the US-Iran war has first been complicated by the Hezbollah threat to Israel.

Internal documents obtained by the BBC indicate that British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years despite awareness that it was causing extensive pollution.

The United Kingdom has imposed a new package of sanctions targeting cryptocurrency exchanges, financial companies, and individuals accused of assisting Russia in evading Western restrictions and facilitating the movement of money for its war economy.

Russia is “relentlessly” targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains, and public trust in the UK and Europe, the head of GCHQ will warn.

An independent cybersecurity review obtained by Important Stories found that Telegram exposes persistent device identifiers that could allow passive tracking of users across networks and locations.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in talks with the European Commission to grant EU authorities access to a model capable of identifying software vulnerabilities.

Gautam Adani, founder and chairman of the Adani Group, is now the richest person in Asia. The billionaire has overtaken Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries.

South East Water’s chief executive has admitted he “got it wrong” in his handling of recent water outages as he made a contrite appearance before MPs.

Leonard Green and Partners is close to finalizing a deal to purchase a $3 billion construction project consultancy firm from New Mountain Capital.

Corpay is partnering with Voltempo in building UK’s largest charging network for electric lorries

Nigel Farage today fired Reform’s housing spokesman after just a month amid a row over his complaint that regulations brought in after the deadly Grenfell Tower fire were too tough and ’everyone dies in the end’.