Boris Johnson promised 40 new hospitals by 2030; it now transpires that roughly half of them will not even have started by then. Health secretary Wes Streeting has produced a new timetable for the New Hospital Programme. He promises that they will all be built. Eventually, but it is going to take rather longer than […]
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Glenigan monitors construction activity and contract awards across the UK The January 2025 edition of Glenigan’s Construction Review reports that, despite significant economic turbulence in 2024, it emerged as a pivotal year for construction, with significant gains in major project starts and steady growth in underlying activity. Overall, work starting on site averaged £10,372m per
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This embedded content is not available in your region. The Ohio State Buckeyes are the first-ever College Football Playoff National Champions of the 12-team era. Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman react to the biggest game of the season as Ohio State beats Notre Dame 34-23. Buckeye QB Will Howard led his team to
Stakeholders assemble to celebrate start of work A new arts and entertainment centre is being created in Worcester from the remodelling of a former 1920s cinema in Angel Place. The new Scala Theatre will host live performances, film shows, visual arts and other creative endeavours. Worcester City Council leader Lynn Denham, together with Scala’s interim
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ATLANTA — Will Howard, like us all, has felt lost many times in life. He felt lost as a freshman at Kansas State, when COVID isolated so many and left him living alone before being thrust — well before he was ready — into the starting job. He felt lost two years later, when, finally
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Mike Newnham , Etag’s new chair Mike Newnham has joined Etag from Saint-Gobain, having been chief executive of Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Ltd and managing director of sister company Jewsons. He stepped down in April 2023 shortly after the two business were taken over by Stark Group, a Danish building materials distributor owned by private equity
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US President Donald Trump issued executive orders shortly after he was sworn in to change the US government’s policies on gender and diversity, following through on promises he made on the campaign trail. He rolled back orders from the Biden administration that the Trump White House called “unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every
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ATLANTA — Dan Jarvis traveled here from Wheelersburg, Ohio, not merely to watch his Ohio State Buckeyes beat Notre Dame, 34-23, and win the national championship on Monday. He came with a sign so he could mock the SEC, which for most of the last two decades dominated college football. Front Row: $8,000 Hotel: $1,000
Cala house types Cala Homes (West) is developing a 38.3-acre site on Crawfield Road in Bo’ness that is allocated for residential use in the Falkirk local development plan. The site already has planning permission in principle. Included in the detailed proposals that have now been submitted for approval a mix of 188 private and 33
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The Buckeyes beat Notre Dame to win their first national championship since 2014 on Monday night. (AP/Brynn Anderson) Instead of a smooth ride through the tunnels at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday night, Ohio State coach Ryan Day found himself in a precarious situation. Day and several others were on a golf cart that
