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.

A Manchester-based grab hire firm, Salford Grab Hire Limited, has been fined £10,000 plus £3,475.90 costs after a one-tonne excavator bucket, used to prop a raised tipper truck body during repair, became dislodged and crushed a mechanic in October 2023. The worker sustained multiple fractures to his hand, shoulder blade, ribs, shin and thigh, a crushed ankle and foot, and a pulmonary blood clot. HSE found the bucket lacked a quick hitch or retaining pin and that no appropriate tipper body support equipment or safe system of work had been used.

A 21,000 m² reactivated landslide threatening the settlement of Köprülü in northeastern Turkey forced engineers to combine InSAR, GNSS, inclinometers, piezometers and detailed geomorphological mapping to understand rapidly accelerating ground deformation and building cracking. The team distinguished an active deep-seated slide from adjacent dormant and secondary movements, using displacement rates and groundwater data to refine the failure surface geometry and kinematics. This combined analysis directly informed whether to pursue large-scale stabilisation works or managed relocation, illustrating how multi-sensor monitoring can de-risk high-consequence decisions on inhabited slopes.