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Forth Road Bridge

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Wire breaks detected on Forth Road Bridge  »

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Fifty wires have snapped in the Forth Road Bridge’s main suspension cables since 2006, according to its chief engineer. An acoustic monitoring system, installed in August 2006, detects breakages among the 11,618 individual high tensile steel wir...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Ross Haig | Read more »

Forth Road Bridge: 'the world's most expensive bus lane'? »

Forth bridge replacement made a national priority

Plans by the Scottish government to transform the old Forth Road Bridge into a 'bus lane' have been met with strong opposition by commuters. The proposal, aimed at reducing the overall costs of the new Forth Road Bridge, would use the old constuction ...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by George Lumbers | Read more »

Bidding on Forth bridge replacement could cost taxpayer millions »

Forth Road Bridge

MSPs have been asked to back plans to pay millions of pounds to companies who bid to build the new Forth road bridge, as calls were made to delay the final decision on whether or not to replace the bridge. Under plans proposed by Transport Scotland in...

Wed 30 Sep 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

SNP excesses: not a cause for secession »

If we have learnt nothing else from the torrent of information concerning the credit crunch disseminated over the past few months then it must surely be that promises are easily broken – especially when it comes to money. With 370,000 current an...

Sun 11 Jan 2009 | Read more »

SNP lose battle with Westminster over Forth bridge funding »

Forth Road Bridge

The Scottish Government has announced cost-cutting changes to plans for a new road crossing the Forth River to resolve a funding battle between Holyrood and Westminster. Scaled-down links between the southern end of the new bridge and the M9 will save...

Sun 11 Jan 2009 by David Stevenson | Read more »

Possibility of industrial action at Forth Road Bridge »

Forth Road Bridge

Forth Road Bridge workers are considering the possibility of industrial action in the wake of internal changes affecting payment and working conditions.Since the abolishment of the bridge’s toll system last month, the Forth Estuary Transport Auth...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Graham Mackay | Read more »

Greens oppose end to road tolls »

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The Scottish Parliament's move to abolish tolls on the Forth and Tay Bridges has been backed by the Scottish Parliament's transport commitee.The SNP had laid out in their manifesto a plan to remove the charge of £1 to use the Forth Bridge and 80p...

Sun 18 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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Plummeting Pensioner marks centenary A Scottish woman has marked her 100th birthday by paragliding off a 2,500 foot peak in northern Cyprus. Peggy McAlpine, a great-grandmother from Stirling, became the world’s oldest extreme sportswoman on 1 Nov...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

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