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Commercial spaceflight - Enabling small-satellite launches and sub-orbital flights from the UK.

We intend to publish a draft spaceflight bill later this month, dedicated to commercial spaceflight in the UK. This legislation will be fundamental to enabling small-satellite launches and sub-orbital flights from the UK, ensuring the UK is well placed to take advantage of a growing global market. The government’s intention is to introduce this Bill formally early in the next session, following a period of scrutiny and engagement with industry and other interest groups.

Stop-go signals ‘risk exodus of engineers from rail industry’ [Subscription]

One of Britain’s biggest contractors has delivered a withering assessment of the government’s “stop-go” funding of the railways, attacking ministerial indecision that it claims risks further damage to the network.

Sadiq Khan: London's transport network will grind to halt amid 'unbearable strain' without Crossrail 2

London’s transport network will grind to a halt under the “unbearable strain” of millions more passengers unless the Government jointly funds Crossrail 2, Sadiq Khan warned today.

Greater Anglia to lobby government for investment in 10-point upgrade plea

Greater Anglia has laid out 10 key rail infrastructure priorities that need to be made within the next decade in order for the planned benefits of its own franchise commitments to be “fully realised”. In a statement, the operator, owned by Abellio with Mitsui as a 40% shareholder...