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NewsSt Pancras is the right home for Eurostar
Christian Wolmar, transport journalist and rail enthusiast, on the advantages of Eurostar's new terminus
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How to survive鈥� being 'too old' in the workplace
You feel 16, you might even look 21, but the cruel hard truth is that if you鈥檙e over 40 you鈥檙e old鈥� in the eyes of colleagues and employers at any rate. So how do you overcome this ever-increasing hurdle? Do you sink or swim? Just follow our 10-point plan to ...
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NewsGreen shoots
A trip to the BRE's Innovation Park leaves you feeling that with the right conditions and backing the zero carbon housing dream might just be do-able
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NewsTango in Paris
Starchitects couple up in Paris as Riba launches its 2007 conference with a collaboration theme
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NewsHow to be good
At 黑洞社区's launch of the Good Employers Guide recent recruits provided some insights into what they want from work, and it's not just a generous pay-packet ...
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NewsBend it like Beckham
Crunching tackles, outstanding saves and agonising penalties all featured at the Construction and Property five-a-side tournament held at the David Beckham Academy
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NewsAt the coal face
Guardian columnist George Monbiot is furious about a new coal planned in south Wales. He berates the government for forcing the scheme on the local community. So what do the joint developers have to say for themselves?
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NewsCarbon chaos and confusion
The Government is getting itself in a right pickle over the definition of zero carbon for new housing, leaving those trying to meet the requirements baffled and bemused
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NewsBlackpool blues
Our correspondent joins the Tories at their party conference for their "fight back" against the Brown Bounce ahead of the much-rumoured snap election
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NewsThe elusive Ruth Kelly
The second day at conference, and the transport minister is proving hard to trace. Still, our correspondent saw Seb Coe, Sunand Prasad and Hazel Blears in action, and discovered a new Olympic sport - fish translocation
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NewsA brief encounter with the PM
Labour Party conference virgin Dan Stewart bumps into Gordon striding to "conference" and has a bit of a "West Wing" moment
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NewsThe TUC, the Licensing Act, and the Business Secretary's clanger
In the wake of John Hutton's embarrassing conference gaff at last week's TUC conference, Dan Stewart looks at how the script should have read
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NewsThe pick of the bunch at Little Britain
Confusion over flying bananas, sarongs and end-of-season sales are all par for the course at the construction and property industry's annual regatta
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NewsRMT has a lot to Crow about
Politics, not pensions, were at the heart of this week鈥檚 strike by Bob Crow鈥檚 band of merry men
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NewsNo reprieve for Sheffield's brick icons
A 4000-strong petition to save the Tinsley cooling towers looks unlikely to prevent E.ON from carrying out the demolition
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NewsBitten by a tiddler
A run in with BT reminds 黑洞社区's legal blogger why people go to court to resolve even the teeniest of disputes
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NewsRoger aims high
QS veteran Roger Knowles made a bold return to both the industry and the Stock Exchange this week, putting his money behind a bold attempt to shake up the consultancy market
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NewsPitching in at Heathrow's polite protest
Heathrow is not being surrounded by tent-dwelling dreamers - instead 黑洞社区's sustainability correspondent found a learned group armed with science as well as banners
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NewsNervous times for the timber industry
Another fire on a timber frame housing scheme will surely lead to more calls for the construction method to be scrapped for major developments
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NewsThe odd couple
First, Ray O'Rourke worked for Tony Douglas, now it's the other way round. Both are very big personalities - in very different ways 鈥� but it's OK because they have a 'very special' relationship. Angela Monaghan wonders how it's all going to work 鈥�