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Monday, 06 July 2026

BBC News

• What to expect as work starts on city's busiest roundaboutAbout 1,000 tonnes of concrete will be used to fill two Peterborough city centre underpasses as work begins on Monday as part of a major regeneration project.

The Scotsman

• Drill and blast: How Shetland's £1.5bn inter-island tunnel network will be builtExplosives would be used to blast through rock to create the planned £1.5 billion network of inter-island tunnels in Shetland, according to consultants working on the project.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Former Transport Secretary claims civil service 'hated' Northumberland A1 dualling schemeFormer Berwick MP Anne Marie Trevelyan has claimed civil servants "hated" the proposed scheme to dual the A1 and frustrated attempts to get the project done. Ms Trevelyan served as the area's MP from 2015 until 2024, with dualling the road a key point of her election campaigns.

Other News Sources

• What the sorry state of Hammersmith Bridge says about BritainOne could be forgiven for thinking that the extensive coverage given to the fiasco surrounding Hammersmith Bridge is typical of a capital-centric press blowing a local issue out of all proportion it was disclosed this week that the west London structure, which has been closed to motor traffic since April 2019 after cracks were discovered in its pedestals, might never reopen to vehicles. But the reason the debacle has garnered so much attention, and attracted so much interest on social media, is that it is held by many to be symptomatic of this country's troubled predicament and seemingly intractable problems.