These are tough times for the building industry, but Morgan Sindall has some cheer having landed a slice of £500 million in construction work up for grabs from three local councils... more
Stone sundial discovered in a village garden and used by its owner to grow strawberries is expected to fetch about £7,000 at auction in London
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The Olympic velodrome will require a public subsidy of £400,000 per year, even though it is the sports venue most likely to have year-round use after the Games
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Network Rail and maintenance company Jarvis are to be prosecuted over the 2002 Potters Bar rail crash in which seven people died, it was announced... more
Three companies face potentially unlimited fines for health and safety breaches over the explosion at Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire in 2005... more
Olympics chiefs are putting the finishing touches to a £31million project to recreate the rapids of the Rocky Mountains in a Hertfordshire nature reserve... more
Hotel review: Liz Hoggard stays in The Grove near Rickmansworth, where she was offered the chance to do a "best life" retreat run by life coach Nina Grunfeld... more
Police hunting the killers of a man whose body parts have been dumped in the countryside say they want to create a facial reconstruction of the victim this week... more