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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK airports
    Ministers to fast-track London airspace redesign in push for growth

    New ‘airspace design service’ aims to vastly boost flight numbers but could mean new communities face noise pollution

    A British Airways Boeing 747 plane landing at Heathrow airport, west London
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Renewable energy
    Welsh hydropower plant pitches for new role in renewables era

    Plan to revamp its six turbines could help UK move to cleaner energy

    Dinorwig power station in north Wales
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow chief out of reach during shutdown as phone was on silent, says report

    Thomas Woldbye expresses ‘deep regret’ at being uncontactable, leaving his deputy to take decisions

    An electricity substation on fire
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    UK transport
    Dispute over £1bn train fleet sours Labour’s first rail nationalisation

    Only around five of South Western Railway’s flagship new trains will be able to run after years of delay in their rollout

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  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    News in-depthRail
    How Eurostar’s would-be rivals went off the rails

    Financing, regulation and different rail systems mean potential competitors are years away from launching services

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  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Brexit
    UK seeks to sell ‘Ozymandian’ Brexit checkpoint after EU deal

    Site in Kent was built to carry out food checks that will no longer be needed

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  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    FT SeriesPowering Britain
    Can Britain’s neighbours help it keep the lights on?

    Greater interconnection should boost system’s resilience but also exposes electricity to political tensions

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  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Lex
    Ofwat’s new water plan stores up a reservoir of trouble Premium content

    Luring new backers into the sector has its attractions, but risks fragmenting the system further

    An overflow pipe releases water into the River Thames
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Utilities
    UK water watchdog woos investors with ‘guaranteed revenues’ as it seeks £50bn

    Funds are needed to back projects to improve Britain’s crumbling water infrastructure

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  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    UK economy
    UK growth plan ‘cannot rest’ on south-east projects alone, says Blunkett

    Labour grandee calls for increase in infrastructure spending in the north as mayors lobby for investment

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  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Water scarcity
    In charts: drought risk as England faces driest year this century

    Rivers and reservoirs are far below average — with the lowest levels in the north

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  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Alstom SA
    Put double-decker trains in the Channel Tunnel, says France’s Alstom

    French company’s high-speed trains could increase capacity and lower fares between London and continental Europe

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Rail
    London’s transport network disrupted by power outage

    Thousands of passengers affected as several train lines were delayed or suspended on Monday afternoon

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  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow took 7 hours to restart flights after power was restored, report finds

    Root cause of blaze in March at electricity substation supplying Europe’s busiest airport still not known

    The blaze at the electrical site in North Hyde, west London, in March
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    UK energy
    Iberdrola secures £600mn loan from UK state fund to upgrade power grid

    National Wealth Fund helps finance plan to develop electricity network between Scotland and England

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  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Consumer watchdog calls for review of water bills in England and Wales

    Ofwat is ‘too generous’ to utilities, hitting customers with £5.4bn rise in charges over five years, Consumer Council for Water says

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  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC
    TalkTalk sheds customers as indebted telecoms group battles altnets

    Sales and profits decline at UK broadband provider as it struggles with intensifying competition

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  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    UK Broadband
    BT rival Community Fibre posts first profit as other altnets struggle

    Private equity-backed group tipped to mount serious challenge to BT Openreach and Virgin Media O2

    A worker prepares the ground for the full fibre cables of the G-Network in Pimlico, London
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    UK adds just 65 miles of motorway in 10 years

    Large proportion of additional capacity could be down to statistical anomaly, says transport expert

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  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    UK business
    Bedford residents prepare to make way for US theme park

    Local MP pledges to work with Universal to support homeowners affected by multibillion-pound project

    A view of the planned site for Europe’s biggest theme park in a disused brickworks in Kempston Hardwick, Bedford
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Climate change
    UK preparations for flooding and extreme weather ‘inadequate’

    Climate Change Committee report warns of threats to farming, infrastructure, health and homes

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  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Thames Water
    Macquarie ‘very proud’ of Thames Water ownership

    Debt-laden utility a ‘better business after our stewardship’, says executive from Australian group

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  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    UK regulators have no coherent plan to upgrade water infrastructure, watchdog warns

    National Audit Office says Ofwat and environment department do not know state of the assets

    The Swalecliffe wastewater treatment works
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    One-third of Lower Thames Crossing spending so far used on planning documents

    More than £450mn went towards obtaining permission for road tunnel scheme

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  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Households in England with big gardens should pay more for water, industry says

    Trade body to recommend compulsory water meters in forthcoming government review

    Residential properties
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