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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 & Highways Transport, Infrastructure & Planning

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, Pollution & 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 & Highways Transport, Infrastructure & Planning

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 & Highways Transport, Infrastructure & Planning

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, Pollution & Recycling

Shower gel plastic beads may face ban

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

Transport & Highways Transport, Infrastructure & Planning

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 & Net Zero

UK and Chinese scientists partner on earthquake research programme

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