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Merseylink environment manager wins biodiversity award for project
A member of the team building the iconic Mersey Gateway Bridge has won a prestigious national environmental award. Victoria Pollard, Environment Manager at Merseylink, the company building the new bridge, was named the BIG Biodiversity [...]
Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust receives funding
The Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust has received £190,110 from UK environmental funding body WREN to support its three-year long ‘Beyond Our Bridges’ project in the Upper Mersey Estuary. The unique independent charity, which was created [...]
New scheme launched to clean up the Mersey estuary with the help of local schools
The Plastic Resolution Project starting this summer aims to work with local schools and community groups in Halton to address the problem of plastic waste pollution on the natural environment. The project is led by [...]
Mersey Gateway project wins national ecology award
The team building Halton’s landmark new Mersey Gateway bridge has won a national competition that recognises excellence in ecology and environmental management. Some of the Mersey Gateway environment and liaison team celebrate their award win [...]
Thousands of trees and shrubs planted as major landscaping scheme gets underway
The first of many thousands of new trees and shrubs are being replanted across Widnes and Runcorn starting this week, in a massive project to reinstate some of the landscaping across the area around Mersey [...]