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Train services through the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France, where scheduled to be fully restored in February 2009 following several months of repairs after a major fire in the tunnel on 11 September 2008. A lorry caught fire on a Shuttle train carrying heavy goods vehicles bound for France through the 50 km long…Read moreRead more

At a time when cross-border unity and environmental concerns have been set aside and replaced by an “every man for himself” attitude to stave off the worst effects of the global credit crunch, the US’ National Demolition Association has announced that it is to postpone its long-awaited and much-heralded global waste symposium. According to a…Read moreRead more

Premier Waste, the first waste management contractor to sign up to the WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Halving Waste To Landfill agreement has said that for them, diverting 100% of construction, demolition and excavation waste from landfill is an achievable and realistic target. Read the full story here.

An uncharacteristically deep blanket of snow has brought the UK’s road, rail and air travel to a standstill and has preoccupied news reporters from all the country’s major TV news networks for the past 12 hours or so. Similarly, UK trade magazine is reporting that a large number of UK sites are closed due the…Read moreRead more

A new service aims to make locally owned demolition services more “findable” on the Internet. Hometown Demolition connects high quality, locally owned demolition contractors with the homeowners, contractors, business owners, and builders that are using a search engine like Google to find a local demolition service on the Internet. The US-only Hometown Demolition Contractors service…Read moreRead more

As part of its commitment to bring you the very latest in the world of demolition and recycling, demolitionnews.com will be attending a number of important industry events in the coming weeks/months. These include: The AGM of the National Demolition Training Group in London on 5 February; The spring seminar of the Institute of Demolition…Read moreRead more

UK trade magazine Contract Journal is reporting that Controlled Group (formerly Controlled Demolition Group) has run up a further pre-tax loss – this time amounting to £1.8m. The company only signed off its latest accounts — for the 12 months to 30 September 2007 — on 12 January 2009. Turnover of £10m was up from…Read moreRead more

Good quality (if overlong) video of dust handler stacks being pulled down in North Carolina. There is, however, a certain irony at the end as the dust handler stacks send a plume of – you guessed it – dust into the air!

It is the fastest-growing online community in the world and it counts people as diverse as US President Barack Obama, John Cleese and Stephen Fry among its most loyal fans. But to many people, Twitter is merely the sound a cartoon bird makes. But not for much longer. Following some widespread public exposure, not least…Read moreRead more

Kent-based waste management and recycling operator Pinden Limited, a division of “watch it come down” demolition specialist Syd Bishop & Sons, has taken delivery of four new Volvo trucks: two FH-480 tractor units and two FL-280 skiploaders. These vehicles are the latest elements of a fleet replacement programme that saw 26 trucks delivered during 2008…Read moreRead more