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Florence and Cecilia, the giant tunnel boring machines that are being used to hollow out the Chiltern Tunnels for HS2, are 90% of the way through their journey.

The National Highways plans for the £1.7bn road tunnel underneath the Stonehenge World Heritage Site are facing another hurdle in the High Court in December.

Details of the proposed Mersey Tidal Barrage have been released by Liverpool Combined Authority. It would be the largest engineering project in the north west.

A specialist tunnel boring technique was deployed by Northumbrian Water to avoid disrupting the 200-year old Bowes Railway Company Haulier site near Durham.

A bascule bridge is a type of bridge that can be raised to provide clearance for waterway traffic, and is also referred to as a lifting bridge or a drawbridge.

The Plessey Viaduct in Northumberland has been partially closed for urgent repairs on a moved parapet. It carries the east Coast Mainline over the River Blythe.

Under an ancient bylaw, a straw bundle must be dangled from London’s Thames crossings to warn river traffic work is being carried out and headroom is reduced.