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After coming out of lockdown, we are again starting to make progress on the repairs to the bridge on Bond Lane.

Over the past few months, the team at Mountsorrel Quarry has produced a series of local interest articles, designed to inform neighbouring communities about various aspects of the quarry and its activities.

We previously explained how the quarry team has moved forward by developing environmental monitoring and biodiversity programmes. This month, quarry operations manager Shane Tompkin and Engineering Manager Graham Darch, describe some of the operational and engineering changes over recent times.

I would like to take this opportunity to update you on the bridge repair works at Bond Lane.

Tarmac's Mountsorrel quarry has made a further donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the NHS.

An employee at Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry has answered a personal plea from his NHS frontline wife by donating personal protective equipment (PPE) to the local hospital where she works as a deputy sister.

A project supported by the Tarmac Landfill Communities fund has reached a new milestone.

Employees at Mountsorrrel marked International Women’s Day with a talk from a special guest speaker, local MP Jane Hunt.

We have previously described the scope of the environmental monitoring programme carried out in and around the site. In this article, Shane Tompkin, who has worked on the site for the last nine years as quarry development and operations manager, gives us just a taste of some of the astonishing...

As many of you will know, we have been working on the repairs to Bond Lane bridge since Summer 2019. Unfortunately, it has hardly stopped raining since we started, leading to significant delays in the project as our contractors moved off-site to alternative, drier contracts.