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UK infrastructure

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Thames Water
    Thames Water claims cost of sewage works repairs has risen 10-fold since 2021

    Company documents show work at 13 treatment facilities is behind schedule and over budget

    The Thames Water Oxford Sewage Treatment Works
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK Government
    British Steel crisis spurs greater scrutiny of Chinese investment in UK

    Ministers urged to review Beijing’s role in critical national infrastructure and supply chains

    Engineering teams use the world’s largest crane - Big Carl - to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Inside Politics
    In defence of Milton Keynes

    It is not perfect, but city’s infrastructure-led development and long-term planning may hold key to Labour’s new towns agenda

    Keir Starmer visits Newport Pagnell, wearing a hi-vis jacket
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    UK business
    UK hails Universal theme park as ‘vote of confidence’ in Britain

    PM Keir Starmer to confirm Universal visitor attraction that will bring an estimated £50bn boost for economy

    Artist rendering issued by Universal Destinations & Experiences of the first Universal theme park in Europe
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    UK Broadband
    Sky reiterates commitment to CityFibre deal in boost to £1.5bn fundraising

    Lenders to the UK’s largest altnet seek reassurance over broadband partnership announced last year

    A CityFibre operative works on a telecommunications box
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    New Thames crossing triggers debate over UK toll roads

    Investors hope east London’s Silvertown Tunnel will be a model for future private finance initiative projects

    A construction worker in the new Silvertown Tunnel in east London
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Rail
    Cross-Channel rail owner to offer incentives for new operators

    London St Pancras Highspeed, the former HS1, aims to attract more train companies and encourage extra Eurostar services

    Passenger trains, operated by Eurostar International, at St. Pancras International in London
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Need more joined up thinking on the north Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, regional disparities in the government’s ‘growth spending’

    Mersyside’s mayor Steve Rotheram (left) and his Manchester counterpart Andy Burnham sitting side-by-side on a train in 2016
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Airlines warned Heathrow about power supply ‘resilience’ ahead of blaze

    MPs hear evidence in wake of substation fire that led to hundreds of cancelled flights

    Nigel Wicking, chief executive of Heathrow AOC, Thomas Woldbye, chief executive of Heathrow Airport, and Alice Delahunty, president of UK electricity transmission at National Grid, give evidence to the Transport se
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    UK energy
    UK Treasury confident Sizewell C nuclear power investors will soon be ‘teed up’

    Ministers to decide whether to proceed with delayed Suffolk scheme in June spending review

    The Sizewell nuclear complex in Suffolk, England
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    UK Broadband
    Altnet consolidation picks up as G.Network renews push for sale

    Full-fibre broadband wholesaler instructs advisers to contact potential buyers again

    Workers prepare the ground for full-fibre G-Network cables in Pimlico, London
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    UK social housing
    UK cladding fund fix would enable 90,000 affordable homes, councils say

    Letter to ministers points out that schemes to reimburse dangerous material removal exclude social housing

    A man removes cladding from a tower block in Sheffield, Yorkshire
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    England’s road building and repair budget cut by 5%

    Allocation to National Highways for 2025-26 lower than for current financial year

    a view of roadworks on the M4 motorway
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Science and tech groups lead campaign to revive Oxford rail link

    Cowley freight line has been closed to passengers since 1963 and now only transports Minis from BMW’s car plant

    Minis are loaded on to a train at BMW’s Cowley car plant in east Oxford
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    InterviewNest Corp.
    Nest pension fund says pledge to invest 30% in private markets ‘not guaranteed’

    State-backed retirement scheme will not compromise on value to meet target

    Nest chief investment officer Liz Fernando
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Lower Thames Crossing and Old Trafford projects are welcome investments

    New infrastructure schemes show public-private partnership at its best

    Large 100,000 capacity stadium
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Ministers give green light to £10bn Lower Thames Crossing

    Private sector expected to finance much of project to east of London after years of delay

    How the Lower Thames Crossing will look
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    National Grid PLC
    National Grid chief says Heathrow had ‘enough power’ despite fire shutdown

    Airlines raise questions about scale of flight disruption after substation blaze

    John Pettigrew
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Travellers face days of disruption as Heathrow reopens after blaze

    Fire at electricity substation that shut down Europe’s busiest airport raises questions about resilience of UK infrastructure

    A traveller arrives at Heathrow’s Terminal 5
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    Heathrow’s shutdown fuels questions about UK’s infrastructure resilience

    Within hours of a fire at a power substation, one of the world’s busiest airports was closed to all flights

    Firefighters extinguish the fire at the North Hyde electrical substation
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Telecoms
    UK regulator says plan for competitive broadband market by 2031 on track

    Rising impact of rival networks may see Ofcom lifting restrictions on BT’s Openreach

    An Openreach engineer works on telephone lines in a residential street in London
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    UK financial regulation
    UK Treasury to review under-fire Financial Ombudsman Service

    Announcement of probe comes as government sets out ‘radical action plan’ to cut regulation and red tape

    Emma Reynolds
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    FT GuidesSupply chains and logistics
    High-speed freight trains emerge as fresh alternative to trucks in UK

    The trains are not only much faster than a truck but carry far more, while requiring only a single driver

    A stylized illustration of a high-speed train in black against a purple background, with white motion lines above it
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Pimco
    Pimco books 17% instant profit on Thames Water emergency loan

    Bond group records windfall on lifeline for UK utility even before deal is finalised

    A Thames Water sign
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Ministers to shake up clean power project grid connections

    Changes come as part of package of reforms aimed at accelerating planning decisions

    Wind Turbines and electricity pylons
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