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£590m for new Thames tunnel
The Chronicle
|June 17, 2025
MINISTERS have pledged another half a billion pounds for the Lower Thames Crossing as part of the Government's 10-year plan for infrastructure.
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The further £590 million - out of the budgets announced at last week's spending review - will link Kent and Essex via the UK's longest road tunnel under the Thames.
A new structures fund will also invest in repairing bridges, flyovers, tunnels and other transport infrastructure such as roads.
This story is from the June 17, 2025 edition of The Chronicle.
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