Maidenhead News

Crossrail today announced its intention to award the contract for ventilation and access shafts at Eleanor Street and Mile End Park. Construction will get underway during the later half of 2012. […]

The first trainload of excavated material from Crossrail’s tunnels has left west London and been delivered to Northfleet in Kent. […]

Seven property advisory firms have been appointed to a newly established framework to advise Crossrail on future development opportunities. […]

Crossrail’s first giant tunnel boring machine (TBM), Phyllis, has broken ground at Royal Oak to construct the first section of tunnel between Royal Oak and Farringdon. […]

The project’s first two sprayed concrete tunnels have been constructed under Finsbury Circus in the City of London. The works are part of construction for Crossrail Liverpool Street station. The 4.5 metre diameter tunnels have been built from the main access shaft within the Finsbury Circus worksite. […]

GB Railfreight has operated the first test locomotive on a new freight line to be used by Crossrail to transfer millions of tonnes of excavated material from London to Northfleet, Kent. […]

Crossrail today announced the appointment of Steve Hails to the role of Health & Safety Director.  Steve joined the project on 23 April 2012. […]

Crossrail today confirmed that the following organisations have been shortlisted for the design, installation and commissioning of Crossrail’s central section Traction Power system. […]

Westminster City Council has given its approval for the regeneration of Tottenham Court Road and the east end of Oxford Street, including the former Astoria site.  […]

Crossrail has begun drilling wells at Connaught Tunnel to draw down the water table ahead of works to deepen and widen the 130 year old tunnel in east London. […]

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Robotic arm controlled by thought - Two patients who are paralysed from the neck down are able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts. [BBC Health] […]

Google 'Knowledge Graph' turns entire internet into one big Wikipedia - Google says this is a 'critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do.' [Daily Mail IT] […]

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Mind-bending: Controlling your Windows PC with your brain is possible (and the hardware is already on the shelves) - Now we are getting ready to enter the world of thought-control, with headsets that can read our minds now available for as little as £300, and the software to turn our dreams into actions starting to take shape. [Daily Mail IT] […]

Waste company 'bullying clients' - A waste company stands accused of bullying small businesses by using unfair contracts to ramp up charges, the BBC has learned. [BBC Business] […]

Greece unity talks hit stalemate - The latest attempts to form a Greek government are said to be deadlocked, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more eurozone uncertainty. [BBC Business] […]

Google brings instant answers to search results - Type in 'Mona Lisa', and a biography appears right on the page (on the right hand side), type in 'Leonardo DiCaprio' and you get a list of his films, and suggested related searches. [Daily Mail IT] […]

Sixth of cancers due to infection - One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. [BBC Health] […]

New car sales rise 3.3% in April - New car sales in the UK rose to 142,322 in April, up 3.3% from a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says. [BBC Business] […]

Local elections 2012: Bloody nose for David Cameron as Labour on course to gain 700 seats - The PM, who suffered embarrassing losses in his own Oxfordshire constituency, apologised to Tory councillors today as more than 700 were expected to lose their seats in the crushing defeat for the party. [Daily Mail Show Biz and TV] […]