A sinkhole roughly 8–10 m wide and several metres deep has opened on the AJ Burkitt Reserve sporting oval in Heidelberg, directly adjacent to the North East Link tunnel alignment in Melbourne’s northeast. Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority has confirmed the “surface hole” is in the vicinity of active tunnelling operations, leading to a work pause while engineers and emergency crews carry out geotechnical investigations and monitoring. No injuries or structural damage have been reported, but the area remains fully cordoned off pending cause determination and stability assessment.

The Climate Change Committee warns that the “British way of life” faces escalating risk from heat, flooding and drought, with the Institution of Civil Engineers backing calls for rapid, large‑scale adaptation of UK infrastructure. Priority actions flagged include upgrading urban drainage and flood defences for more intense cloudbursts, retrofitting buildings for sustained 40°C heat, and securing water supply resilience against multi‑year droughts. For civil and geotechnical engineers, this signals imminent pressure to redesign assets for higher hydraulic loads, thermal stresses and soil moisture variability within the next planning cycle.

Metropolitan Police say they remain on schedule to submit full Grenfell Tower fire charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service by the end of September, nearly 10 years after the 2017 disaster. The investigation has reviewed the roles of 15,000 individuals and 700 organisations, with 57 people and 20 organisations now suspected of offences including gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office, fraud and health and safety breaches. Evidence gathered includes 165 million electronic files, 14,400 witness statements and over 27,000 physical exhibits such as cladding, insulation, doors and windows.