The London Assembly Environment Committee has published a summary of the flood risks facing the capital.

A 10-month partnership project that has improved the quality of bathing water at Southend ahead of the summer season has been hailed a success by the Environment Agency.

New analysis from Deloitte, shows that no UK technology companies have listed in the US since the start of 2011, apart from King.

Mike Norbury, Research Hydrologist for Water-Value, based in the firm’s Northumberland office at Alnwick, comments on the government’s new insurance scheme and its impact on flood risk and/or previously flooded property.

A focus on export business in the Indonesian and Malaysian markets has resulted in a 100% increase in sales within the Partech catalogue, marking a huge success for the UK-based company in their 50th year.

Confidence about the 12-month outlook in the UK construction sector has reached its highest level since January 2007, according to the latest  Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index® survey by Markit Economics.

The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are investing up to £2.5m in feasibility studies to accelerate commercial applications in the novel material, graphene.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is in the process of determining an application by Scottish and Southern Energy’s (SSE) to modify flows within areas of the Tay and Spey catchments in order to improve the quality of some rivers as required by the European Water Framework Directive.

Senior business leaders from across the UK will converge on Cumbria this week to see first-hand how communities recover from catastrophic flooding – and find out if they could do more to help in future.

Australia- headquartered Carnegie Wave Energy has signed a commitment agreement to secure the final berth at Wave Hub, the offshore renewable energy test facility in Cornwall, to demonstrate its next generation wave technology.