St Helens Central to open by September

Work has started on the installation of a £4.3m, 175m sewer pipe by United Utilities in Oldham to prevent further flooding incidents for an area blighted in recent years.

A shortlist of architects including several overseas firms has been chosen from over 50 entries to go to the final round of a RIBA competition to design a new office building in Preston.

Cube, Manchester’s Centre for the Urban Built Environment, will hold another Open art exhibition next year after the success of its inaugural show this summer.

Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine has released photographs of the inside of the snow village Chill Factore being built next to the Trafford Centre.

Ciara Leeming revisits the closure of the K Shoes factory in Kendal

The contractor on the Lime Street Gateway project in Liverpool may be changed after developer Iliad launched a retender.

The North West’s lucrative nuclear and petro-chemical markets were the driving forces behind the £14m takeover of Warrington-based specialist asbestos contractor Kitsons by publicly-listed Silverdell.

Cleaning work is nearing completion on the former ABC Forum cinema in Liverpool city centre.