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New images of the future Lower Thames Crossing have been released as the main construction of the £10bn project moves closer.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Lower Thames Crossing, a new road linking Kent and Essex, is one of Britain's leading economic infrastructure projects.

The 14 mile project was first proposed in 2009, and would connect Kent and Essex through a road and tunnel beneath the River Thames to reduce congestion. Campaigners have reacted angrily to the ...

The review also criticised “the inconsistency of the [government’s] revised roads policy statement with emissions objectives” and the diversion of HS2 cash to road building. The LTC comes hard on the ...

The largest road tunnel in the UK has been given the green light - after a £9billion plan was finally approved by the government. The proposed Lower Thames Crossing, which is set to run ...

It will run adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel, built in the Victorian era, which takes drivers from near the O2 Arena under the River Thames to the East India Dock Road in Blackwall. The Silvertown ...

Conservationists have criticised plans for a new road tunnel under the Thames which they say will destroy “irreplaceable” ancient woodland and harm wildlife. National Highways says the Lower ...

More than a million trees will be planted as part of a new road tunnel scheme under the River Thames, Government roads agency National Highways has said. A community woodland and two public parks ...