New Solway Viaduct To Provide Road Links & Green Electricity
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Plans are afoot to use the old Solway Firth Viaduct to build a new bridge across the Solway to Scotland and also harness the next gen of green electricity. The viaduct which used to be a railbridge and spanned the … Continue reading

Extremely Large One To Scan The Night Sky!
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Construction of the world’s biggest telescope – dubbed the ‘European Extremely Large Telescope’ (E-ELT) has been approved. The telescope, which will be cited atop the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert, will measure approx 40 metres in its main … Continue reading

Millenium Bridge That Barely Lasted A Decade
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Like many badly constructed Milennium projects up and down the country, Carlisle’s ill reckoned Irishgate bridge has been closed as unsafe only 11 years after being built. The carbuncle of a bridge, which has been found to have metal fatigue … Continue reading