WSP Group plc, the leading international business supplying specialist and integrated services in the built and natural environment, has reported its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2009.

Northumbrian Water has been ordered to pay more than £34,000 following the potentially fatal crushing of an employee.

Galliford Try’s Interim Report for the six months ended 31 December 2009 has reported sharply reduced turnover – group revenue was down from £774M in 2008 to £570M.

New long-term £120 million contracts with Anglian Water consolidate May Gurney's position in the utility maintenance market.

The Court of Appeal has reduced a fine imposed on Thames Water for spilling sodium hypochlorite into the River Wandle in September 2007 during cleaning at Beddington sewage plant  which killed 7,000 fish.

Welsh Water is to undertake the biggest re-structuring of the company since it was bought by Glas Cymru and became a “not-for-profit” company - to meet the toughest efficiency targets the company has ever faced. 300 jobs will go over the next five years.

Design and engineering consultancy group WS Atkins plc has published a confident Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 October 2009 to date.

A Surrey demolition firm which went to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying six years’ worth of water and sewage charges – even changing its name twice - has now gone into liquidation, snubbing a County Court judgement to pay up.