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UK infrastructure

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Utilities
    Listed UK water utility dividends exceed private peers’ payouts for first time since Thatcher

    First-time publicly traded companies pay out more than privately held rivals since privatisation

    An aerial view of treated waste water flowing into the River Irwell from the Bolton wastewater treatment works operated by United Utilities
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK airports
    London’s airports test Labour with plans for rapid growth

    Luton and Gatwick ruling to come this year, while Stansted and City expansion already approved

    A plane taking of at Gatwick
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Rail
    UK high-speed rail line told to cut charges

    Regulator rules fees should come down by 3.8% compared with HS1’s proposal

    King’s Cross and St Pancras International Railway Stations
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    UK Broadband
    Amazon’s satellite project pushes ahead with UK broadband plans

    Filings show Kuiper initiative held meetings with MoD as tech group bids to rival Starlink

    An Amazon satellite in dock
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    News in-depthUK Broadband
    UK altnets count cost of ‘gold rush’ end after collective losses surpass £1bn

    Alternative network providers under pressure to demonstrate they can be profitable businesses not just builders

    A montage of a woman installing internet and a chart
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    FirstGroup PLC
    FirstGroup to add bus and open access rail routes amid Labour nationalisation

    UK’s largest train operator under pressure to diversify due to government plans

    Commuters disembark from a Great Western Railway train, operated by FirstGroup, at London’s Paddington station
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    ExplainerUtilities
    Why UK water regulator’s decision on bills is set to stoke turmoil

    Ofwat has not given heavily indebted Thames Water the increase in customer payments it was seeking

    Campaigners against Thames Water outside the High Court on December 17, 2024 in London
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Electricity networks plan ‘unprecedented’ £77bn investment in clean power push

    Backlog in electricity network connections has been holding back renewable energy projects

    Electricity pylons run across Romney Marsh in Kent
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    High Speed Two Ltd
    Cost of HS2 could hit £66bn, according to management estimate

    Report presented to board of Britain’s flagship transport project flagged how price could increase by a further £9bn

    Euston station and the HS2 building site
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    LexRail
    Why UK private sector train operators are in no hurry to step down from driver’s cab Premium content

    Flurry of recent open access applications could be a sign companies think the rules could become less favourable

    Commuters disembark a Great Western Railway train, operated by FirstGroup, at London’s Paddington station
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    UK politics
    Reform UK calls for Thames Water to be renationalised

    Populist party’s deputy leader says heavily indebted utility should ‘be put out of its misery’

    Thames Water vans parked on a road in London, England
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Rail
    St Pancras owner lays out plan to boost Channel passenger numbers

    Study shows it’s possible to increase capacity from 1,800 travellers an hour to nearly 5,000, says HS1

    International passengers queuing at St Pancras
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    HS2
    Euston HS2 project costs to hit more than £7.5bn

    Price of extending high-speed rail line into central London set out in confidential government documents

    Euston station and the HS2 building site.
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Water Services Regulation Authority UK
    Ofwat employed consultants that also worked for water groups

    Embattled regulator for England and Wales faces accusation of conflict of interest

    A woman walks past a fence featuring Thames Water imagery
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    New UK planning rules will bypass councils to fast-track housebuilding

    Housing secretary Angela Rayner says ministers will be ‘grasping the nettle’ in system overhaul

    Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner addresses the Local Government Association
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Hitachi Ltd
    Hitachi chair warns UK train factory at risk unless HS2 northern leg revived

    Toshiaki Higashihara says jobs at Newton Aycliffe site near Durham cannot be guaranteed without increased demand

    Toshiaki Higashihara
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Thames Water
    Thames Water receives bid from Covalis and France’s Suez

    UK investor is teaming up with French group as part of a bid for control of troubled utility

    A sign displaying the Thames Water Ltd. company logo on protective barriers surrounding water supply works in London
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    UK nationalisation
    South Western Railway set to be first train operator nationalised by Labour

    Next companies to return to public control will be c2c and Greater Anglia under UK government plans

    A South Western Railway train in Hampshire
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    News in-depthNorthern Ireland
    ‘Nothing can be built’: Northern Ireland sewage crisis hits housing construction

    Property prices surge as 19,000 homes are left on hold due to lack of wastewater services

    An estate agent window in Northern Ireland
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    News in-depthRail
    Can nationalisation fix England’s rail network?

    Move by Labour government will trigger a wave of state takeovers in the struggling, cash-strapped sector

    Montage of a train superimposed on top of a graphic
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    UK floods
    Storm Bert reinforces need to prioritise UK’s flood defences

    West Worcestershire MP urges Environment Agency to expedite permanent scheme as storm causes damage across country

    Two shop owners console each other as they clear furniture from their flood damaged property in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, England on November 25 2024
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Lex
    The other side of the UK’s infrastructure problem Premium content

    Well-planned investable projects are in short supply

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivering her Mansion House speech last week
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Northern Rail Ltd
    Northern Rail to cut Christmas timetable to improve reliability

    UK’s largest train operator outside London has breached its contract three times this year due to cancellations

    A Northern Rail train
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Rail
    Dispute over London depot threatens plans to break Eurostar monopoly

    Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is among challengers seeking to offer new rail service between UK and European mainland

    Eurostar trains at the Temple Mills depot in east London
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    John Gapper
    Teesside should not risk its clean energy future by fighting

    The net zero transition gives the region’s port a historic chance to grow if territorial tensions ease

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