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HYDER PLANS to spend £7M shifting nearly 1M.m3 of slag fill and toxic waste from its £180M Cardiff East wastewater treatment plant site in an attempt to resolve geotechnical problems dogging the project.

FEDERAL FUNDING to complete the troubled Los Angeles metro system could be lost within months unless the Metropolitan Transportation Authority moves quickly to sort out its internal affairs, city officials warned this week.

DEPUTY PRIME Minister John Prescott could hand the £5.4bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link to Railtrack next month without reopening the bidding process, it emerged this week.

BATTLE PLANS are being laid by consultants working on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link to save around 900 jobs under threat if London & Continental Railways fails to solve its funding crisis.

Andrew Bolton unravels what went wrong.

THE CONSTRUCTION industry has reacted angrily to the news that the CTRL is now likely to face serious delay.

PROJECT FINANCE experts and city lawyers agree the most likely CTRL rescue scenario would involve Railtrack taking control of London & Continental Railways, minus the loss-making Eurostar passenger train service.

LCR'S CHANCES of holding on to the CTRL and the Eurostar service looked slim as NCE went to press.

NCE asked a senior government transport adviser how keen New Labour were on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link? He replied cryptically: 'They're not sure how enthusiastic they are. They'll be reading the papers to find out'.

THAMESLINK 2000, Railtrack's £600M scheme to increase commuter routes through London, faces cancellation if the Channel Tunnel Rail Link does not go ahead.