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Boris Johnson ready to pull the plug on ‘disastrous’ Tube Lines deal

07.05.10
Mayor Boris Johnson is to axe Tube Lines, the private sector consortium responsible for the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines, 'within days'... more

Mayor and TfL accused of blocking former Tube boss appointment to private firm

01.04.10
Boris Johnson and Transport for London accused of blocking the appointment of a former Tube boss to a troubled private firm upgrading three vital Underground lines... more

Boris Johnson: We must end ‘catastrophic’ Tube Lines contract

30.03.10
Boris Johnson calls on company responsible for upgrading the Underground to step aside before its failures cost taxpayers even more money... more

Lord Adonis attacks Boris Johnson over rising cost of Tube upgrades

19.02.10
Transport Secretary Lord Adonis attacks Boris Johnson over the soaring cost of upgrading the Tube... more

London deserves better than this Tube Lines farce

03.02.10
You would have thought we had learned our lesson on Tube closures by now. With Tube Lines, it is as though the city was in the grip of a bunch of rogue builders... more

Vital Tube work threatened as firm loses £327m claim

25.01.10
Upgrades to Jubilee and Northern lines under threat as private firm carrying out work loses claim to be paid an extra £327million of public funds... more

Treasury must rue the day it ever decided on PPP

25.08.09
Annual report on the Tube public-private partnership should send a shiver down the collective spine of Londoners returning to their desks after the summer break... more

Boris rages at Tube firm as upgrade to Jubilee line causes chaos

25.08.09
Boris Johnson reads riot act to private firm causing Tube chaos after 'grave doubts' whether £500 million upgrade will be completed by Christmas ... more

Stable door slams too late after hustling of the Candys

27.03.09
The tale of four cunning old geezers fooling two sharp young whippersnappers into paying £6.5 million for 47 acres of land owned by someone else altogether must surely form the basis of a script for the next series of Hustle. ... more

Shortlisted bidders vie for plum work on Crossrail

22.08.08
Balfour Beatty, Capita Group and Laing O'Rourke have made it on to the shortlist for Europe's biggest construction job, the £15.9billion Crossrail project... more

Amec wins slice of deal to clean up Sellafield

11.07.08
Amec has won a share of a £6.5 billion Sellafield clean-up contract... more

US firm joins race to clear up Sellafield

07.07.08
The £1 billion-a-year contract to clean up the nuclear power plant in Cumbria could go abroad ... more


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