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• UK?s Infrastructure Renaissance: Managing Environmental Impact in Britain?s Biggest Build

  05-02-2025 01:00 via emsol.io
  Other News Sources - The United Kingdom stands at the threshold of an unprecedented infrastructure transformation. With projects valued at over ?25 billion recently announced, this wave of development promises to reshape Britain?s transport networks, boost economic growth, and create thousands of jobs. However, success means carefully managing environmental impacts, particularly air quality.
  
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• TPE and Northern services to be impacted by works in March

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - TransPennine Express and Northern customers are being asked to plan ahead as TransPennine Route Upgrade engineers prepare for works.
  
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• Spat over council question that Conservatives were not allowed to ask

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thurrock.nub.news
  
  Other Regional Press - Following last week's full council meeting, local Conservatives were angered when Orsett councillor Barry Johnson was not allowed to ask an 'urgent question' relating to the Lower Thames Crossing.
  
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• Should everyone over 60 have free bus travel? Government faces calls for change

  05-02-2025 01:00 via dorsetecho.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Labour is facing calls to bring the required age for free bus travel in England to 60 years of age.
  
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• Settle to Carlisle Railway shortlisted for national awards

  05-02-2025 01:00 via cumbriacrack.com
  Other News Sources - Settle Carlisle Railway Development Company has been shortlisted for three national awards.It has been nominated in the National Community Rail Awards 2025 in the categories of Outstanding Volunteer Contribution, It?s Your Station and Photo Competition.
  
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• Ryanair scraps all flights to European destination in protest over new rules

  05-02-2025 01:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Mail - The budget airline says it has been forced to make changes due to taxes, with services to Aalborg in Denmark axed by the low-budget airline and low-cost carrier.
  
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• Rail link branded 'expensive fantasy' after government questions 'value for money'

  05-02-2025 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Plans to reinstate a rail service in Oxfordshire were branded mp;#39;a fantasymp;#39; after the government questioned whether it represented mp;#39;value for moneymp;#39;.
  
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• ?Putting green lipstick on a pig? - campaigners ridicule Lower Thames Crossing claims

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thurrock.nub.news
  
  Other Regional Press - CAMPAIGNERS from the Transport Action Network (TAN) have ridiculed National Highways' attempt to brand the proposed Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) as the "greenest road ever", describing this as "putting green lipstick on a pig" and a rehash of previous announcements. Costing over ?10 billion, the project would be the biggest new road in a generation, requiring huge quantities of concrete as well as unleashing a huge wave of traffic in the middle of a climate emergency.
  
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• Push to roll out 1,000 EV charging points in Bradford is welcomed

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - A mp;pound;3.1 MILLION push to create more electric vehicle charging points in the District has been welcomed, with a meeting told that one local village has no public charging points.
  
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• Plans for new railway to open up access to Heathrow

  05-02-2025 01:00 via news.railbusinessdaily.com
  
  Rail Business Daily - Heathrow Southern Railway Limited (HSRL) ? the independent private sector venture set up to transform the rail network serving Britain?s busiest airport ? wants to unlock easier access to Heathrow Airport through the construction of up to eight miles of new railway from the west end of the existing Terminal 5 station, linking with the railway lines coming out of London Waterloo.
  
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• Petition calls for Oxford LTNs to open during roadworks and emergencies

  05-02-2025 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - Businesses have supported calls for LTNs in Oxford to open during major roadworks or emergencies to help tackle traffic congestion.
  
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• Night-time bike riding 'socially unsafe' for women

  05-02-2025 01:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC News - Nearly a quarter of Londonmp;#39;s cycleways remain largely unused at night by half of the population.
  
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• New railway station given updated opening date

  05-02-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC News - A new railway station is now expected to open by 2031 after plans progressed.
  
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• New Maidenhead to Reading bus service set to launch

  05-02-2025 01:00 via bucksfreepress.co.uk
  
  Bucks Free Press - A new Maidenhead to Reading bus service is set to launch
  
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• Multi-million pound cost of Bradford Interchange bus station closure is revealed

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
  
  Bradford Telegraph & Argus - The multi-million pound cost of the year-long closure of Bradford Interchange bus station can today be revealed.
  
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• MT Asks: Will a third Heathrow runway deliver growth?

  05-02-2025 01:00 via managementtoday.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - The planned runway is being hailed as a catalyst for growth, but it?s crucial that it is integrated into broader economic and environmental strategies.
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing raises the bar with 70 carbon target as industry responds to net zero challenge

  05-02-2025 01:00 via nationalhighways.co.uk
  National Highways - The improved new target has been published in the project?s second annual sustainability report
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing raises the bar with 70 carbon target

  05-02-2025 01:00 via highways-news.com
  
  Other News Sources - National Highways? Lower Thames Crossing has today revealed a new target to reduce its construction carbon emissions by 70; an ambition made possible thanks to the project?s Delivery Partners? and suppliers? commitment to making the new crossing the greenest road ever built in the UK.
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing improves green credentials with new 70 carbon reduction target

  05-02-2025 01:00 via newcivilengineer.com
  
  New Civil Engineer - The ?9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) project to construct a new tunnel under the Thames Estuary between Kent and Essex is now targeting a 70 reduction in its construction carbon emissions, up from the 50 reduction pledged in its development consent order (DCO) application.
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing greenwashing challenged

  05-02-2025 01:00 via transportactionnetwork.org.uk
  
  Transport Action Network - Campaigners from Transport Action Network (TAN)have ridiculed National Highwaysmp;#39; attempt to brand Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) as the mp;quot;greenest road evermp;quot;,describing this as mp;quot;putting green lipstick on a pigmp;quot; and a rehash of previous announcements. Costing over mp;pound;10 billion, the project would be the biggest new road in a generation, requiring huge quantities of concrete as well as unleashing a huge wave of traffic in the middle of
  
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• Lower Thames Crossing announces major update just days after Rachel Reeves gives go-ahead - 'Path forward'

  05-02-2025 01:00 via gbnews.com
  
  Other News Sources - A major UK road project has announced ambitious new targets to cut its construction carbon footprint by 70 per cent, marking a first for National Highways.
  
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• Is the North being forgotten?

  05-02-2025 01:00 via northeastbylines.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - ... Indeed, the day after Reeves? speech, The Guardian was reporting that MPs from the north of England had voiced fears of a ?brain drain? to southern infrastructure projects after Rachel Reeves? announcement of several major developments in the south.
  
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• HS2 completes longest viaduct slide in project history in four days

  05-02-2025 01:00 via oxfordmail.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - HS2 has completed the heaviest and longest single-stage viaduct deck slide so far in the project, near the Oxfordshire border.
  
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• Heathrow's third runway cleared for take-off ? but will it boost growth?

  05-02-2025 01:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Other News Sources - Heathrow Airport will finally get its third runway but critics argue a bigger Heathrow isn't the answer to boosting growth.
  
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• Heathrow's third runway cleared for take-off, but will it boost growth?

  05-02-2025 01:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Other News Sources - Heathrow Airport will finally get its third runway but critics argue a bigger Heathrow isnmp;#39;t the answer to boosting growth.
  
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• Heathrow expansion will only go ahead if it meets climate targets ? Miliband

  05-02-2025 01:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Independent - The Energy Secretary said the extension of any airport would have to meet existing carbon budgets and environmental restrictions.
  
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• Free bus passes for everyone over 60 backed with Labour due to give update

  05-02-2025 01:00 via birminghammail.co.uk
  
  Birmingham Mail - A petition on the Parliamentary website, which has been backed by 10,000 names after Karen Hickman created it, urges Labour to mp;amp;quot;e xtend free bus travel for people over 60 in Englandmp;amp;quot;.
  
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• Forget Heathrow expansion we need to create new hub airports in places like south Wales

  05-02-2025 01:00 via business-live.co.uk
  Birmingham Post - A new international hub airport at Severnside would provide a huge boost to the Welsh economy
  
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• European airlines push back hydrogen ambitions

  05-02-2025 01:00 via ft.com
  Financial Times - Net zero road map shows sector no longer expects fuel to make significant contribution to decarbonisation by 2050
  
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• ESSEX CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE WELCOMES LOWER THAMES CROSSING MILESTONE

  05-02-2025 01:00 via businesswire-essex.co.uk
  
  Other News Sources - In her speech on economic growth on 29 January the Chancellor signalled the government?s commitment to delivering a new Lower Thames Crossing. In response, Denise Rossiter (pictured), CEO of the Essex Chambers said:
  
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• DRS to cut major CO2 emissions with new rail service announcement

  05-02-2025 01:00 via ciltuk.org.uk
  Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport - Direct Rail Services (DRS) has begun moving over 46,000 tonnes of material by rail, yielding significant environmental benefits.Nuclear Transport Solutionsmp;amp;rsquo; rail division, DRS, has launched a new rail service to deliver aggregate for a project vital to the safe and secure disposal of nuclear waste.During the first campaign, DRS will operate two trains a day, four days a week, to Nuclear Waste Servicesmp;amp;rsquo; (NWS) Low Level Waste
  
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• DB Cargo Class 66 recovered for repairs after months out of traffic

  05-02-2025 01:00 via railmagazine.com
  
  Rail Magazine - A DB Cargo Class 66 that has been stopped at Newhaven aggregates terminal since August, with wheelset defects preventing it moving by rail, has been taken by road to Toton by by Allelys Heavy Haulage.
  
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• Comment: Time for Lower Thames Crossing contractors to seize control

  05-02-2025 01:00 via theconstructionindex.co.uk
  
  Construction Index - Construction companies already working on billions of pounds worth of Lower Thames Crossing contracts are likely to face two choices if the project is to survive: either re-tender for the work or seize control of the project themselves. Phil Bishop reports.
  
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• Civil engineer wins contact to build the ?substructure? for HS2?s Curzon Street - involves 140-strong team

  05-02-2025 01:00 via insidermedia.com
  Other News Sources - A civil engineering specialist has won the contract to build the 'substructure' for HS2's flagship station in Birmingham. A team of approximately 140 people will start the works in early 2025.
  
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• Civil engineer wins contact to build the 'substructure' for HS2's Curzon Street - involves 140-strong team

  05-02-2025 01:00 via insidermedia.com
  Other News Sources - A civil engineering specialist has won the contract to build the mp;#39;substructuremp;#39; for HS2mp;#39;s flagship station in Birmingham. A team of approximately 140 people will start the works in early 2025.
  
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• Case for western rail link to Heathrow is now 'stronger'

  05-02-2025 01:00 via sloughobserver.co.uk
  
  Other Regional Press - The case for a western rail link from Reading and Slough to Heathrow Airport is 'stronger than ever before' amid hopes the project could be resurrected.
  
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• Carbon emissions target for Lower Thames Crossing revealed

  05-02-2025 01:00 via transportandenergy.com
  
  Other News Sources - National Highways? Lower Thames Crossing has revealed a new target to reduce its construction carbon emissions by 70.
  
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• British Airways tweaks frequent flyer scheme after backlash subscription

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thetimes.com
  
  Times Online - BA?s revamped loyalty scheme has irritated passengers and now the airline is making it easier to earn points
  
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• BA announces more changes to loyalty scheme and says 'right thing'

  05-02-2025 01:00 via bristolpost.co.uk
  Bristol Live - The rules have been changed again after anger when the scheme was replaced last year
  
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• "Putting green lipstick on a pig" - campaigners ridicule Lower Thames Crossing claims

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thurrock.nub.news
  
  Other Regional Press - CAMPAIGNERS from the Transport Action Network (TAN) have ridiculed National Highwaysmp;#39; attempt to brand the proposed Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) as the mp;quot;greenest road evermp;quot;, describing this as mp;quot;putting green lipstick on a pigmp;quot; and a rehash of previous announcements. Costing over mp;pound;10 billion, the project would be the biggest new road in a generation, requiring huge quantities of concrete as well as unleashing a huge wave of traffic i
  
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• All-electric cars are now one fifth of UK market subscription

  05-02-2025 01:00 via thetimes.com
  
  Times Online - New car registrations in January fell 2.5 per cent to 139,000 amid weak consumer sentiment, high borrowing costs and inflated prices
  
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• All change at Moor Lane bus station as Bolton town centre redeveloped

  05-02-2025 01:00 via theboltonnews.co.uk
  
  Bolton News - Itmp;#146;s an area of Bolton which has undergone more redevelopment than most
  
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• Airline bans power banks after plane destroyed in horror fire

  05-02-2025 01:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Independent - Air Busan said the changes were in response to an increase in the number of power banks overheating
  
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