St Helens stadium remediation kicks off
The North West Development Agency has approved £4.9m for site remediation around the proposed new St Helens RLFC stadium.

Cutting probe
Ashfield District Council has commissioned the Environment Agency to investigate the possible presence of contamination at an infilled railway cutting west of Hucknall town centre.

WSP Laboratories finds silver lining
BB talks to Paul Morris and Mike Cohen of WSP Environmental Laboratories, following its move to brand new premises and adoption of new systems in Nottingham

Welsh Part 2A funds
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced £2m for local authorities over the next three years to bring contaminated land back into use.

Winning the Olympic remediation event
London has committed itself to delivering the most sustainable Olympic games ever held. Margo Cole reports on its first stage - the remediation strategy.

Dounreay groundwater
Dounreay Site Restoration has announced the sign-off of the first stage of cleaning up the site’s waste shaft.

Sustainable use of soils
DEFRA is seeking views on a draft Code of Practice for the Sustainable Use of Soils on Construction Sites...

Universities probe uranium in soil
Researchers at Belgium’s Catholic University of Louvain have shown that a group of plant symbiotic fungi can participate in uranium immobilization in soils...

Forty billion pounds for remediation
The undiscounted cost of the 130-year decommissioning and remediation process for Britain’s 19 older nuclear sites has risen by £10bn in one year to £73bn...

Contaminated land left ill-defined
DEFRA has published its promised Guidance on the Legal Definition of Contaminated Land as non-legally binding advice...

DEFRA issues call for bid and plans to revise capital grants system
DEFRA has issued its annual call for Contaminated Land Capital Projects Programme grants for 2008-9...