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Vince Cable: Rebirth of steelmaking on Teesside is 'really inspirational story'
TEESSIDE'S steel industry was once again in the spotlight as Business Secretary Vince Cable visited the reignited blast furnace at SSI UK to handover £1.4m from the Regional Growth Fund.
Read more...Towers and cable completed on Thames cable car
All three towers and the steel cable have been installed across the River Thames in a major milestone for the cable car project.
Read more...Trekking through the treetops
Dangling at the end of a three-foot line and gliding 40-feet above the ground along a steel cable between trees is exhilarating. It was unexpectedly exhilarating.[...]
Read more...Wallenda begins practicing on 2-inch cable for daredevil Niagara Falls tightrope walk
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - Nik Wallenda has performed his first practice walk on the tightrope he'll use to walk above Niagara Falls next month. The Buffalo News reports ( http://bit.ly/LBAdpL ) a couple hundred people came out to watch Wallenda as he slowly crossed the two-inch steel cable strung between two cranes in front of the Seneca Niagara Casino.
Read more...Damaged I-675 cables being repaired
State road crews are repairing the damaged steel cable barrier system lining the median of Interstate 675, which is meant to prevent deadly crossover crashes by catching cars.The work started Friday and should conclude this week, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. Repair was delayed for weeks because it took longer than expected to get the parts, ODOT officials said.
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