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For any industry, there are few more disruptive things that can happen than a change of government, says Alasdair Reisner.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that UK infrastructure projects including the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge Tunnel “will not move forward” as the government looks to fill a £22bn hole that the government has discovered in its audit of public finances.

The final legal appeal against the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel enters court today, 15 July, as the expenditure on the project has been revealed as £166M despite main work not having commenced.

Unesco has recommended that Stonehenge be listed as ‘World Heritage in Danger’ due to the A303 upgrade scheme and is again pushing for an extension to the tunnelled section to mitigate the detrimental effects to the site.

Start of work on National Highways’ £1.7bn Stonehenge Tunnel scheme on the A303 is indefinitely delayed after the Court of Appeal upheld campaigners’ case against the scheme.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has begun the installation of high voltage and fibre optic cabling that will provide electricity for the construction and operation of the planned £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge tunnel.

Campaigners’ case against the government’s decision to green light the £1.7bn Stonhenge Tunnel has been quashed by a High Court judge.

Campaigners opposing National Highways’ £1.7bn A303 tunnel underneath Stonehenge World Heritage Site are heading to High Court today, 12 December, for a three-day hearing.

Campaign group Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) has launched a legal challenge against the government’s approval of the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge Tunnel road scheme.

Main Point: Grenfell's internal fire spread Once again, discussion of the reasons behind the Grenfell disaster focus only on the inflammable cladding panels (NCE, July). However, in a report by Dave Parker in the August 2017 edition of NCE, it was spelt out very clearly that the fire which engulfed…