0 Have your say Ambitious £61million plans to move Sunderland Civic Center to a smaller base on the Vaux site - to be shared with other organisations - have been approved by senior councillors. Members of Sunderland's ruling cabinet members approved the business case for moving the city council's HQ to the key development site at a meeting this afternoon. Council chiefs said the move offered "the best strategic investment" for both the council and the city as a whole by "maximising both the economic and regenerative benefits for Sunderland".Related: Vaux move will spearhead Sunderland regeneration - council leader insists £61miilion City Hall switch is right decision The council said as well as creating a more cost-effective base for the local authority, the move will also help spearhead the regeneration of the Vaux site by signalling to potential investors that the city centre is an excellent place to set up shop.Councillor leader Graeme Miller said: … [Read more...] about £61million plans to create new Sunderland City Council HQ and public sector hub on Vaux site approved by senior councillors
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Anger over council plans to build near rare Second World War site
Video PUBLISHED: 07:06 14 March 2019 | UPDATED: 07:06 14 March 2019 Norfolk County Council's plans to build near a rare Second World War gun battery have been opposed by villagers in Mautby. Pictured from left: Steve Short, Bil Smith and Dean Hewitt. Picture: Chris Hill Archant It was built to defend Norfolk from the Nazis – but now this rare gun battery is under attack from the county council’s development plans, according to heritage campaigners. An RAF image of the Mautby gun battery in 1946, which is now overgrown with woodland. The protected area is shown in red, and Norfolk County Council's planned building is shown in orange, with the surrounding hardstanding in yellow.The Second World War anti-aircraft gun emplacement at Mautby, near Great Yarmouth, is regarded as the best example of its kind in the country.But this priceless piece of wartime heritage sparked a planning battle after landowner Norfolk County Council (NCC) applied for permission to build a … [Read more...] about Anger over council plans to build near rare Second World War site
Tyler wins London’s ‘top first-year apprentice’ award training at Poplar’s Phoenix building site
PUBLISHED: 09:00 12 January 2019 Mike Brooke Trainee electrician Tyler Whelan at Poplar's Phoenix construction site is 'best first year apprentice' in London. Picture: Fairview New Homes Fairview New Homes A talented teenage electrician working on Poplar’s massive Phoenix development site has been named ‘top apprentice’ among her peers. Tyler Whelan received the award for ‘best first year apprentice’ from K10 Apprenticeships at its annual prizegiving.The 17-year-old who began training at the site next to the Limehouse Cut only last February beat off competition from 100 other apprentices across London.“I couldn’t quite believe I had won the award,” a surprised but ambitious Tyler said. “I want to build on this and earn as many industry qualifications as possible.”She previously enrolled on an acting course at college—but had a change of heart to pursue her love of physics by studying for a … [Read more...] about Tyler wins London’s ‘top first-year apprentice’ award training at Poplar’s Phoenix building site
The price of progress in China: ‘We traded our lives for development’
By Sue-Lin WongSHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - For four years at the turn of the century, Wang Zhaohong worked on a demolition crew in Shenzhen, clearing the way for the once-tiny border village to become a bustling metropolis.gi Now, emaciated and struggling for breath, the bedridden 50-year-old says the work he did will end up killing him.Without proper safety equipment, he and his colleagues from a remote county in Hunan province inhaled so much construction dust during Shenzhen's development boom that they contracted silicosis, a lung-destroying condition.Wang's case is acute. He expects to suffocate by Chinese New Year. This month, China will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its "Reform and Opening," the economic policy that transformed it into the world's second-largest economy. Even as hundreds of millions of people have left poverty, Wang and others like him are reminders of the heavy human toll of China's development, and authorities have sought to censor information and suppress … [Read more...] about The price of progress in China: ‘We traded our lives for development’
After dark, drone is ‘best friend a firefighter could have’
Updated 12:04 am PDT, Saturday, August 11, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-4', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 4', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Scott Stoddard, AP Image 1of/4 CaptionClose Image 1 of 4 In this Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018 photo, Ty Sibley, right, an unmanned aircraft system operator for Insitu, prepares a ScanEagle drone on a ridge south of Galesville Reservoir near Azalea, Ore. The aircraft, equipped with an infrared camera, flew for more than seven hours that night while detecting hotspots over the Taylor Creek Fire in Southwest Oregon. (Scott Stoddard/The Daily Courier via AP) less In this Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018 photo, Ty Sibley, right, an unmanned aircraft system operator for Insitu, prepares a ScanEagle drone on a ridge south of … [Read more...] about After dark, drone is ‘best friend a firefighter could have’