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The government has approved Gatwick Airport’s plan to bring its northern runway into regular use, following a year-long examination under the Planning Act 2008. Transport secretary Heidi Alexander granted development consent on Sunday (21 September) for the £2.2bn project. The works will realign the standby runway 12 metres north, allowing it to handle departing aircraft

The formal revival of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) is set to be a centrepiece of the Labour Party’s policy platform ahead of its conference next month, according to reports. Government sources told The Guardian that prime minister Keir Starmer, chancellor Rachel Reeves and transport secretary Heidi Alexander would all make speeches about the project before

Construction output in Northern Ireland fell by 5.1 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, the latest official statistics show. The decline follows a 15-year high recorded in the final quarter of 2024, when the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) recorded an activity index of 120. Despite the quarter-on-quarter dip in

Many Nigerians especially those living in communities daily tormented by terrorists, bandits, herdsmen and other criminal elements nationwide, should welcome wholeheartedly, the recent stand of the 19 governors in northern Nigeria throwing their weight behind the long agitation for the creation of state police as part of renewed efforts to...

Administrators have been appointed for commercial building manufacturer Jans Offsite Solutions. The Antrim-based firm, which is a subsidiary of Jans Holdings Ltd, appointed insolvency experts from Keenan Corporate Finance in Belfast on 19 May. According to accounts for the year ending 31 December 2023, Jans Offsite Solutions has 79 employees. It had said that the

Science & Nature Scientists set up 956 cameras along roughly 3,300 square miles to study these notoriously shy big cats. The post Northern India’s elusive...

Parts of Scotland and northern England could see the rare phenomenon...

The United Nations The last major functioning health facility in northern Gaza, Kamal Adwan Hospital, is now out of service, putting the lives of the 75,000 Palestinians remaining in the area at risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Friday, The raid, reportedly by Israeli forces, saw some areas of the hospital burnt and