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Ingenious and life-enhancing: a tale of two new London footbridges
The Guardian   19 February 2023   UK   London  
Photograph: Jim Stephenson
<p>All the world loves a bridge that moves. Usually, the point of a bridge is that it is fixed &ndash; when so much trouble has been taken to overcome gravity and tame nature, instability is the last thing that you want &ndash; so there is surprise and delight ...
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In pictures: 40 years of the Kessock Bridge
BBC NEWS   05 August 2022   UK   Scotland  
One of the bridge's construction crew won a bet by hitting a golf ball between the two spans (Scottish Roads Archive)
<p>The Kessock Bridge in the Highlands is 40 years old.<br />"One of the beauties of being a civil engineer is you are often building things which are of benefit to the area in which you are building them," says Ken Wilson, who helped to supervise the construction ...
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Silvertown Tunnel cutter head lowered into shaft
Construction Enquirer   01 August 2022   UK  
<p>The Silvertown Tunnel project reached another major milestone last week as the cutter head for the Tunnel Boring Machine was lowered into the shaft</p>
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Jurassic Coast has biggest landslide ‘in 60 years’ as beach buried in rubble
Metro   14 April 2021   UK   Jurassic Coast  
A large part of the beach has been blocked off by the landslide (Picture: Getty/Google Maps)
<p>A major landslide has seen 4,000 tonnes of rock plunge down onto a beach on the Jurassic Coast. Rubble has completely blocked a section of the beach after the 430ft sandstone cliff gave way on Monday night causing boulders the size of cars to plummet near ...
The five: dinosaurs that once roamed the British Isles
The Guardian   15 March 2020   UK   Scotland  
<p>Last week scientists discovered the first Stegosaurus footprints in Scotland. Which other prehistoric reptiles lived on these shores? </p>
Southeastern delays: Landslide causes chaos for rail commuters
Evening Standard   14 March 2019   UK  
The landslide rail workers are dealing with in Wadhurst (Network Rail)
<p>A landslide has blocked the main rail commuter route between Hastings and London, causing major disruption for thousands who use Charing Cross, London Bridge and Cannon Street stations.</p>
Tunnel Boring Machine For Whitby Mine Arrives
Yorkshire Coast Radio News   18 February 2019   UK  
Published by Alex Taylor at 9:21am 18th February 2019.
<p>An 1,800 tonne tunnel boring machine to construct the tunnel from Whitby to Teesside as part of the Sirius Minerals' project has arrived.<br />The main parts of the 225-metre-long machine arrived at AV Dawson&rsquo;s Heavy Lift Port on the Teesside Docks ...
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Cornwall cliff collapse caught on camera
BBC NEWS   10 December 2018   UK   Cornwall  
<p>Part of a cliff collapsing in Cornwall has been caught on camera by a woman out walking.</p> <p>Deborah Smith was at Lynstone Road, Bude, when she said she noticed "some little bits going, then saw the rocks moving and quickly videoed it".</p>
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Geologists Just Found a Long-Lost Bridge Between The UK And The Rest of Europe
Science Alert   19 September 2018   UK  
How the British Isles might have formed. (Plymouth University)
<p>For hundreds of years, geologists have thought the modern-day British mainland was formed by the collision of two ancient land masses, Avalonia and Laurentia.<br />Now, new research suggests a third continent was involved &ndash; Armorica, which today makes ...
Geological records reveal sea-level rise threatens UK salt marshes, study says
EurekAlert!   12 July 2018   UK  
IMAGE: A salt marsh in Tees Estuary, England, showing signs of erosion
<p>Sea-level rise will endanger valuable salt marshes across the United Kingdom by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, according to an international study co-authored by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor.<br />Moreover, salt marshes ...