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Highways England seeks to double Lean efficiency savings

Highways England has set out plans to save £250m by 2020 through Lean techniques –

Pollution Transport Transport & Highways

Active travel benefits trump risks, researchers find

The health benefits of walking and cycling outweigh the negative effects of poor air quality,

Features Waste Waste and Recycling

Has Scotland got the bottle for deposit return schemes?

Deposit return systems – where people purchasing a drink pay a small deposit and get

Features Transport Transport & Highways

Putting the brakes on our road building ‘obsession’

Does the case for the government’s multi-billion pound road building plan really stack up? It

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£200m polar research ship named in honour of Sir David Attenborough

NERC’s new £200m state-of-the-art polar research ship is to be named after world-renowned naturalist and

Transport Transport & Highways

Fears over outsourcing of winter services

A council’s plan to privatise some services could put their winter services at risk, a

Features Housing Regeneration

‘Unrealistic’ housing targets are ramping up the pressure on green belt

If green belt should only be developed in exceptional circumstances, why has England seen a

Pollution Waste Waste and Recycling

Shower gel plastic beads may face ban

The UK government says it will consider a unilateral ban on plastic microbeads in shower

Transport Transport & Highways

Newcastle Council set to outsource its winter services

Newcastle City Council plans to outsource its winter service provision under a maximum 10-year contract

Energy

UK and Chinese scientists partner on earthquake research programme

A research partnership between the UK and China will develop new expertise on increasing resilience