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The Emirates Air Line provides a low-emissions, quick, direct and fully accessible link between the north and south sides of the River Thames in London, UK, and is the easternmost pedestrian crossing of the river. The route runs from Emirates Victoria Dock station (north station) on the north side of the Thames to the Emirates Greenwich Peninsula station (south station), constructed on remediated brownfield land. The cableway runs between the two stations over three major steel towers and two subsidiary 'compression' towers positioned just in front of each station. This paper - one in a series of four that describe the delivery of the Emirates Air Line project - describes the challenges that were faced in the design and construction of the stations and the compression towers. These challenges included construction of the north station over water in the Royal Victoria Dock, the design of the south station in very close proximity to the alignment of the proposed Silvertown tunnel, coordination of the station structure with the complex mechanical and electrical equipment required for the operation of the cableway systems, and construction of the compression towers to the very tight installation tolerances and operational deflection limits mandated by the specialist subcontractor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A series of repairs to three large concrete locks on the River Trent navigation was carried out between 1981 and 2002, involving works to counter the effects of degrading Mercia Mudstone foundation material and unsatisfactory stability of the structures. The current paper describes the history of the locks and the problems which developed, the assessments and investigation undertaken to determine the failure modes and the development of appropriate repair strategies. Significant factors included closure of the navigation, dewatering arrangements and temporary load cases, the preservation of existing stability and the effects of difficult site access. Construction activities are also briefly described. The projects originated from emergency works following a near failure at Stoke Lock (1981+ACYAIw-x2013+ADs-1983), reactive works following monitoring at Newark Nether Lock (1993/1994) and preventative works identified through an asset inspection process at Cromwell Lock (2001/2002). The 1981+ACYAIw-x2013+ADs-1983 works involved external sheet pile anchors and ties and a reinforced concrete trough section built in the lock chamber together with major temporary works. At Newark Nether, mini-piling was installed through the lock walls to improve stability prior to replacement of the lock floor, avoiding many of the temporary works needed at Stoke Lock. The Cromwell Lock works were similar to Nether Lock but utilised vertical mini-piling and an underfloor drainage system in a refinement of earlier designs. Use was made of British Waterways' own temporary works equipment where available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the keep foundation of a section in the Colchester Castle in Essex, England. The nature of the foundation section was established in 1932 by sinking a shaft against the south face of the keep. The keep foundation is said to be compiled from notes and draft drawings in the museum files. It was extended c. 3.65 meters below the bottom of the plinth, the lowest part of which contains a mixture of stone and mortar. The foundations's upper part was filled with soil layers containing stones, tile and sandy soil.

The article describes the forebuildings and barbican in the Colchester Castle in Essex, England. The architectural history of the castle is divided into three periods. During Period VIIA, a rubble wall with an outer face lined with the vertical foundation of the gateway was identified. The nature of this foundation is said to depict the intention to support light timber superstructure. The contemporary ground level was marked by a second structure found in Period VIIB, which is described with tile-built wall faces. During the VIIIB period, the addition of large forebuilding or barbican strengthened the entrance of the castle, which in turn replaced the VIIB structure.

This paper shares reflections on Police Now's experience working collaboratively with academic researchers to help embed evidence and support innovation in a police leadership development programme with police forces across England and Wales. To increase the likelihood of successful collaboration and the potential of research evidence achieving traction at all levels of policing, we focus on the importance of researchers and practitioners understanding the contextual pressures both groups are confronted with and the need to identify opportunities for two-way engagement and collaborative reflection, from research design through to the dissemination. Police Now's reflections and experience thus point to the value of participatory action research (PAR) approaches. The paper holds relevance for police and academics in how to foster successful research collaborations for the benefit of policing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: This article explores the views of current nursing leaders in the National Health Service on the actions and resources that are required to develop and maintain nursing leadership talent. Background: Although there is considerable talent and expertise within the nursing leadership community, numerous unfilled vacancies and gaps have been identified in competence and capability, with a national analysis indicating that nearly a third of National Health Service director posts are filled by interim appointments or are vacant. Nursing director posts are amongst those vacant for the longest periods. Method: Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with NHS directors of nursing, chief nurses, directors of quality and their deputies in south‐east England to explore the characteristics of their roles, development needs, barriers to applying for posts or staying in their posts, future talent identification, and support networks. Results: Nursing leadership roles are perceived as demanding, poorly remunerated, isolating, and representing a major increase in responsibility and career risk. Too much development is currently informal. Conclusions: Talent identification and support need to be timely, structured, experientially based, and focused on building resilience and confidence. Coaching, mentoring, and support networks are considered crucial. Implications: Nursing leadership talent needs to be formally identified, developed and supported within organisations and networks should be maintained to reduce professional isolation and counter negative perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Europe in recent years, there has been recognition of the need to better understand the risk from groundwater flooding. This recognition has been due both to the occurrence of major flooding events clearly attributable to groundwater and the inclusion of groundwater flooding in European and national legislation. The case study of the city of Oxford on the River Thames flood plain in UK is used to examine the mechanisms for groundwater flooding in urbanised flood plain settings. Reference is made to an extensive data set gathered during a major flood event in 2007. Groundwater flooding of a significant number of properties is shown to occur in areas isolated from fluvial flooding because of high ground created historically to protect property and the transport network from flood inundation. The options for mitigating this form of flooding are discussed; measures to increase the rate of conveyance of flood waters through Oxford, designed to reduce fluvial flood risk, have also been recognised as a means for reducing groundwater flood risk within the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the author's perspectives on international aid in poorest and conflict affected countries. He highlights the presentation of international development secretary David Mitchell on the key outcomes of aid review to the Houses of Parliament in England. The author reveals that education receives the lowest in financing aid compared to development aid and humanitarian aid that focus on survival, food, and health.

The Hospital of St Mary Magdalen, Partney has seen the first major excavation of a minor rural hospital. Existing by c 1115, it was amongst the earliest hospitals founded in Britain after the Norman Conquest and is one of a class of about 60 sites that were run as cells of larger religious foundations. Excavations uncovered the hospital chapel and its burial ground, as well as timber buildings. Monks/priests and lay people, possibly from the monastic estate, may have been interred in separate locations with different burial rites. Of particular note was a burial in a locked coffin or chest. Partney had ceased to function as a hospital by 1318, when it formed an administrative cell of Bardney Abbey. It was abandoned and robbed in the mid-15th century when the area was given over to agriculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The design, construction and monitoring of a 12 m deep basement for the Chapelfield Shopping Centre, Norwich, UK are reviewed. The extent to which data and reports from similar nearby construction projects allowed cost savings and reduced risks, particularly regarding solution features in the chalk, has been assessed. By having robust engineering solutions and contingency measures agreed at the start of construction, geotechnical works for the project were completed without delays or significant additional costs. Back-analysis has shown a good fit between actual performance and that predicted using the soil parameters chosen. Using hindsight, an assessment is made of whether all potential benefits from the prior knowledge of the performance of similar excavations in the area were realised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Duke of Burgundy butterfly ( Hamearis lucina) has declined severely since the 1970s and is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority species. Its populations are mostly confined to scrubby calcareous grassland, where management for short-turf species can be detrimental to the butterfly. We briefly review the literature on the Duke of Burgundy and investigate their habitat preferences, survival and dispersal at a chalk grassland reserve in Bedfordshire, UK. We found that adults generally preferred more sheltered locations but that their habitat preferences were less restrictive than choice of food-plants. Females chose larger plants with longer leaves in denser patches on which to lay eggs. Adults showed reasonable dispersal ability with turnover recorded between areas isolated by scrub. Our results indicate that the species is able to use isolated areas of favourable habitat at a reserve scale and that conservation could therefore involve cyclic management to provide suitable habitat year-to-year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While John Bale (1495-1563), in his contributions to the 1549 text "The Laboryouse Journey & Serche of Johan Leylande," attempted to mark a decisive break in England's literary history by radically differentiating, in Bale's view, the light of England's evangelical present from the darkness of its Catholic past, he felt compelled to deal with the persistence of the darkness he saw embodied by his contemporaries' treatment of English texts. Bale understood this treatment in an economic sense, insistently playing on the terms commodity and profit, which were invoked similarly by a moral economic discourse and an emerging politico-economic discourse articulated by Sir Thomas Smith (1513-77). Thus English literary texts appear in Bale's construction of national community both as trade-objects that circulate in an international economy, and as ideal tokens of English identity itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WHILE THE archaeological evidence for ritual activity in Later Prehistoric and Romano-British settlements is reasonably plentiful, there has been little discussion of such evidence from Anglo-Saxon settlements. This paper presents a preliminary survey of 'special' deposits, primarily of humans and animals, within Anglo-Saxon settlements and considers what the composition, context and placement of such — presumably votive — deposits tells us about the nature of Anglo-Saxon ritual. This evidence is compared to that from Iron-age and Roman Britain, as well as Continental NW. Europe. In particular, the relationship of special deposits to buildings, boundaries and entrances is considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the archaeological objects found in England as recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme of the council for museums, libraries and archives. A Loxton copper-alloy horse-harness mounted on a curved rectilinear was found in Avon. It was a rare class of metalwork connected on Early Anglo-Saxon equestrianism. A stirrup from 11th-12th century was found in Cambridgeshire. In Hertfordshire, Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd. discovered medieval wells, postholes and pits cutting into the natural chalk.

Observations include: Ian Livingstone, London: a sustainable city?, p.77 Michael Parkinson, Key challenges for European cities: achieving competitiveness, cohesion and sustainability, p.78 Chris Hamnett, London’s housing, p.80 Sarah Curtis, Health in London, p.84 Martin Frost, London's transport—investing for sustainability, p.92 Chris Birks, Mike Owen and Brian Arkell, London's water resources: threat or opportunity, p.92 Sean D Beevers, David C Carslaw and Gary W Fuller, London's air quality: nitrogen dioxide and particles (PM10) in London's air—present and future, p.97 Adam D Read, Where there's muck there's brass—the ‘cost’ of London's waste?, p.103 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the treatment of compressed-air decompression accidents. Decompression illness was first noticed in 1841 in a group of coal miners in England. The cases of decompression accidents were successfully treated without permanent disability by using minimum pressure required for relief of symptoms. Presently, recompression continues to be the basis of treatment. Recompression is an elevated partial pressure of oxygen and use of certain drugs.