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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour clean energy plan undermined by inadequate funds, says think-tank

    IPPR calls into question party’s pledge to ‘reindustrialise’ UK through state-led investment

    Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    UK Broadband
    Broadband groups Netomnia and Brsk agree tie-up

    Deal is latest example of consolidation in fast-growing sector providing alternative full-fibre networks

    Workers prepare the ground to lay full-fibre cables in Pimlico, London
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    PFI contract disputes risk disrupting schools and hospitals, warns Labour peer

    Lord Hutton urges Treasury to intervene as public authorities and private sector argue over infrastructure deals

    Whittington Hospital in Archway north London
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK outsourcing
    Private providers winning big fees on UK public sector contracts, experts warn

    Procurement specialists say market for ‘framework agreements’ is insufficiently regulated and raises cost to taxpayer

    FT montage including close-up photo of two people shaking hands
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    National Health Service
    Capital investment delays leave England’s hospitals crumbling

    Decade of austerity fuels record repair backlog in NHS estate, say doctors and policy experts

    Montage of worker mopping a floor
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    News in-depthRail
    Making tracks: is Eurostar’s monopoly under threat?

    Companies are exploring rival operations to run trains through the Channel Tunnel

    Eurostar trains at St Pancras
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    UK property
    ArcelorMittal seeks to safeguard its operations at UK docks

    Steelmaker wants to halt proposed redevelopment of Chatham Docks, saying it threatens 800 jobs

    Chatham Docks
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour to snub Sadiq Khan’s suburban London rail proposal

    Party’s plans to renationalise network set up potential clash with UK capital mayor

    A train arrives at London Bridge station
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Six years of UK rail reform has ‘achieved very little’, say MPs

    Promises of overhaul hampered by legislative delays and interdepartmental rows, finds public accounts committee

    Trains on different tracks with City of London offices in the background
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Pollution
    Thames Water pumped 14bn litres of sewage into river Thames in central London in 2023

    Figures obtained via freedom of information laws come as water pollution rises up political agenda

    An aerial view shows the outfall into the River Thames, at Thames Water’s Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, in south east London
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    LexNational Grid PLC
    National Grid’s £7bn rights issue sheds light on energy transition costs Premium content

    The UK company’s dash for cash is for a good cause

    Lights on in residential houses in the UK
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    National Grid PLC
    National Grid plans £7bn capital raise to strengthen electricity network

    London-listed group announces £60bn investment programme over next 5 years

    Electricity pylons
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Labour vows to break ‘inertia’ of UK infrastructure delivery

    Party plans to create new body to avoid delays and overspending on big projects such as HS2

    HS2 workers gather to watch the tunnel boring machine breaking through on the Chiltern Tunnel in Great Missenden in March
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Reducing sewage pollution must be UK ‘public health priority’, says senior official

    England chief medical officer Chris Whitty backs report calling for improvements by water companies and Whitehall

    Warning sign on a jetty on Windermere, England’s largest lake
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    UK water companies lash out at ‘labyrinthine’ regulatory system

    Industry lobby group criticises Ofwat for ‘slow’ and ‘inflexible’ processes that delay vital infrastructure

    A sewage leak in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    British investor in talks to buy 49% share in Teesside International Airport

    Michael Flacks wants to transform the facility into a cargo, repair and maintenance hub

    A couple arrive at Teesside International Airport, the site of the new Airbourne Colours facility  on January 11 2024 in Darlington, England
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    News in-depthUtilities
    UK water companies embrace PFI to deliver £14bn of infrastructure

    Ofwat encourages debt-laden utilities to set up entities to deliver reservoirs and pipelines

    Four steel pipes of the Haweswater Aqueduct
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Axing northern leg of HS2 will stunt UK growth, says official adviser

    National Infrastructure Commission warns ‘window is closing’ for ministers to ensure alternative rail capacity is built

    Hoardings surround the construction site for the HS2 mainline station at Curzon Street in Birmingham on October 4, 2023
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    UK government spending
    UK lacks skills and capacity for big infrastructure projects, MPs warn

    Public accounts committee says Whitehall departments failing to spend enough time ensuring value for money

    The HS2 being constructed, with barges on a canal in the foreground
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    HS2
    Labour asks why taxpayers are set to fund HS2 work despite Sunak pledge

    Government readies £1bn injection even though prime minister said last year private sector would cover Euston costs

    Construction work continues on the HS2 site in Euston on February 5, 2024 in London
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    HS2
    Taxpayers set to fund HS2 tunnel under London despite Sunak pledge

    £1bn injection would end uncertainty over whether railway line will reach its planned central London terminus at Euston

    Workers behind the cutterhead of tunnel boring machine (TBM) Lydia after breaking through a concrete wall as it completes the construction of the Atlas Road logistics tunnel as part of the Old Oak Common project of the HS2 rail project
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    Holding back the floods for 40 years: Thames Barrier is due an upgrade

    Scientists warn that London is at risk from sea-level rises and more powerful storms

    The Thames Barrier at night
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Thames Water causes Redrow legal stink over damaged sewer

    Utility accuses housebuilder of ‘negligence’ after sewer blocked with concrete

    Surface water and sewage on the road at the entrance to the village East Ilsley, England
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Rail
    Investment in rail freight imperilled by government and Labour plans

    Freightliner boss says cargo operators must have robust rights to track access to ensure future growth

    Tim Shoveller
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Getlink
    Eurotunnel operator offers to subsidise new cross-Channel rail services

    Getlink chief puts forward €50mn pot for companies considering launching rivals to Eurostar

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