The Board of Mouchel has rejected the revised share offer made by Costain.

Westminster City Council have recently been shortlisted for an award by the National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG) for their use of intelligent trench technology which captures information about street works and all underground utilities exposed.

The Board of Northern Ireland Water has announced that the company’s Chief Executive, Laurence MacKenzie, on his own initiative, has tendered his resignation.

Bristol Water has reported that its reservoir levels have again dropped back by 1% to 51% full on average -this time last year they were 96% full on average.

The site of a £300 million scheme to bring cleaner seas to Sussex has been rated as one of the best in the country. Southern Water’s scheme to build a new wastewater treatment works at Lower Hoddern Farm, Peacehaven, scored 37.5 out of 40 when it was independently assessed by the Considerate Constructor Scheme (CCS) at the start of November.

Yorkshire Water is continuing with its £120 million programme of work to upgrade its sewer network and treatment works to help further reduce the risk of flooding to hundreds of properties across the region.

A £21 million programme to give Wirral's largest water pipes a deep clean is due to restart this week.

Thames Water is starting work this month on a  £2.5million scheme to replace 4.3 miles (6.9km) of worn-out Victorian water mains in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Global insurance and re-insurance group Munich Re has said that natural catastrophes in 2010 caused losses of US$ 130bn.

Fast-tracking patent applications for green inventions has delivered real benefits to green businesses, according to Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Wilcox.