£590m for new Thames tunnel

MINISTERS have pledged another half-a-billion pounds for the Lower Thames Crossing as part of the UK 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.