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Infrastructure investment

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's politics
    Xi faces heat over failure to protect Chinese workers overseas

    Bomb attack by Pakistan separatists adds to pressure on Beijing to secure interests

    Chinese President Xi Jinping walks past uniformed military personnel holding rifles
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    It pays to be clear about what public transport is designed to do

    Too often politicians place conflicting demands on rail or bus networks

    Ewan White illustration of a hand placing a golden egg into a basket that also contains other eggs, a Japanese flag and a pagoda hut.
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    UK economy
    Reeves plans to use £350bn council pension pot to boost UK economy

    Chancellor to set out reform to fragmented local authority funds in Mansion House speech

    Reeves, with Mansion House in background
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    UK government explores privately funded Birmingham-Manchester rail link

    Mayors argue new train line is needed after northern leg of HS2 was axed on cost grounds

    Transport secretary Louise Haigh (left), with chancellor Rachel Reeves and mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham on Thursday
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    HS2
    HS2 spent £100mn on tunnel to protect rare bats

    Kilometre stretch of steel mesh one of many planning requirements that has driven up costs, says project chair

    Bechstein’s bat
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen
    Europe’s critical infrastructure is becoming dangerously vulnerable

    Governments must not only learn lessons from Ukraine about security but stimulate higher private sector investment

    A worker with the 2Africa submarine cable as it arrives at the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS) in Sant Adria de Besos
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Heathrow expansion
    UK cabinet split over allowing third runway at Heathrow

    Several ministers, including Ed Miliband, are opposed to airport’s expansion

    A plane lands on the southern runway at London Heathrow Airport
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    London
    Liverpool Street station redevelopment plans scaled back

    Network Rail sets out revised project at UK’s busiest station after heritage groups called proposals ‘insensitive’

    An artist’s impression of the redevelopment of Liverpool Street station
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    US-China relations
    Chinese warships could use Peru’s big new port, US general warns

    Head of US Southern Command sounds alert over Beijing ‘playbook’ for large overseas infrastructure projects

    US Army General Laura Richardson
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Electric power
    World’s largest transformer maker warns of supply crunch

    AI data centre demands and renewable energy’s dispersed nature are driving equipment orders for power grid upgrades

    A transformer station section at the Plain Ayeme solar plant seen behind a chain-link fence, with electrical equipment visible, in Gabon
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Keir Starmer
    Keir Starmer: Reform is needed to make Britain a great place to do business

    If we want the country to grow again, then we need to get it working and building again

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with chancellor Rachel Reeves at Downing Street
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves’ Budget gives green light to HS2-Euston tunnel

    Chancellor pledges to speed up private investment in redevelopment of central London station

    Engineers lift the cutterhead of one of the Euston Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) at the HS2 site on Atlas Road, London
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Rail
    UK rail operator admits it still uses fax machines to contact train crew

    Northern under fire from regional mayors for poor performance

    A Northern train
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Thames Water
    Tory treasurer’s water company in discussions to take stake in Thames Water

    Castle Water’s plans for the troubled utility include an eventual IPO

    A Thames Water maintenance engineer in an orange uniform and helmet walks near a company van at an incident site in London. The van is parked on a street next to a building
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Rachel Reeves
    My fiscal rules will provide the stability on which growth depends

    Britain faces a choice between investment or decline

    Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    UK privatisation
    Labour to end profit incentive for rail operators in run-up to nationalisation

    Train bosses accuse UK government of being ‘ideological’ over ending post-Covid scheme letting them keep more cash

    GWR trains on the platform at Paddington station in London
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Water Services Regulation Authority UK
    Ofwat could be scrapped in sweeping review of failing UK water industry

    Environment secretary says new commission will consider all options regarding water regulator

    Environment secretary Steve Reed
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Water regulator signals further increase to bills in England

    Companies pushing for prices to increase by up to 84% on top of inflation over next 5 years to boost investment

    Workers at Thames Water fixing leaking pipes
  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    HS2
    UK government to launch HS2 review as costs spiral

    Transport secretary Louise Haigh says delivery of rail link project has been ‘dire’

    People walk between advertising hoardings at the HS2 development site near Euston station in London. One hoarding features a smiling man in an HS2 hard hat and safety vest, while another promotes global cuisine.
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    UK explores plans for new rail line as alternative to axed HS2 northern leg

    Feasibility study for a Birmingham to Manchester route to be launched by ministers

    Birmingham Curzon Street railway station
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    News in-depthUK energy
    Scottish Highlands become battleground in the race for net zero

    Local outcry over pylon expansion scheme as ministers vow to protect infrastructure from ‘obstructionists’

    View from the Lecht in winter in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    National Health Service
    UK should use private capital to rebuild NHS, say health leaders

    Report by NHS Confederation concludes that ministers are likely to need several options to raise capital

    A run-down stairwell at St Mary’s Hospital, London
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The magic pony of private finance fails to fund the global green transition

    It’s unrealistic to imagine investors will massively increase their contribution to developing-country infrastructure

    World Bank President Ajay Banga meets with community members at a mangrove rehabilitation and restoration site supported by the World Bank, at Teluk Naga on the outskirts of Jakarta
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Architecture
    Elizabeth Line wins UK’s Stirling Prize

    East-west London railway that came in late and £4bn over budget praised as a ‘triumph of architect-led collaboration’

    Passengers walking down a white tunnel
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Sadek Wahba
    The UK should resist calls for infrastructure public ownership

    Privatisation is not the solution for every situation but it can be highly effective in many cases

    A tanker pumps out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane sewage pumping station in Cookham, Berskhire
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