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By having the framework in place, archaeology contractors, working directly with Highways England, will support the initial design stage of road schemes in the road investment strategy. This in turn supports how projects proceed through the planning stages, including what mitigation work is needed. The framework will bring multiple benefits to Highways England across cost efficiency, delivery of improvements and safety on site. The contract is available to all Highways England schemes, and can also be used by the Regional Delivery Partnership (RDP), Delivery Integration Partners.
Catherine McGrath, Category Manager for Ground Investigation and Archaeology at Highways England says;
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10 Uplifting Stories To Get You Through The Week (5/12/19)
To help you end the week on a positive note, we have gathered all the news that might lift your spirits into one list. If you’d like a side dish of weird and wacky as well, check out the offbeat list.
This week, we have not one but two inspiring stories about women who were able to fulfill their graduation dreams even if they happened a few decades late. A young girl and a pooch saved their best friends from peril. There is also a look at a burial chamber that made English archaeologists giddy with excitement and a pioneering medical technique using genetically modified viruses that saved the life of a teenager.
Matt Hancock outside the Epsom Downs Racecourse vaccination centre
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SIR – Matt Hancock says he hopes that, by the end of the year, Covid-19 will be a disease that Britain can “live with, like we do flu”.
I am afraid that is not good enough, without the prospect of a much earlier end to lockdown. Vaccination numbers are rising rapidly, but so are those for hospital waiting lists. Cases of mental illness, domestic violence and unemployment are also going up.
The Government must focus on easing lockdown and mitigating the collateral damage being caused to young and old alike. This is urgent: it should be a matter of weeks, not months. Mr Hancock, in particular, should not be diverted from this task by embarking on a restructure of the NHS before the pandemic is over.
Excavations of a massive Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Northamptonshire have revealed thousands of beads and brooches, along with weapons, textiles and other goods.
Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) uncovered the burial site at Overstone Gate amid preparations of the 15 hectare area for construction.
Over the course of 12 months, the team identified 154 Anglo-Saxon graves, together containing nearly 3,000 treasured objects the buried took to their resting place.
This included around 2,000 individual beads, 150 brooches, 75 wrist clasps, 15 rings and 15 chatelaines a type of decorative clasp from which chains usually hang.
The researchers also found cosmetic kits, bone combs and weapons including 40 knives, 25 spears and 15 shield bosses.