PLA News Releases
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Listed below is a complete listing of our current news releases (by title).
![Kent wharf investment boosts delivery of building materials into London by river](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/pla-cemex-northfleet-30012064-696x593.jpg)
After 316 hours of cycling and 79 beach cleans, Kiko Matthews finished her mammoth coastline bike ride – Kik-Plastic – with a “beach clean” in London.
Read more![Kicking back – 7,000km plastic pollution crusade concludes on the tidal Thames](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/kikomatthewsfinalbeachclean28071913.jpg)
Over 40 unemployed young people are set to join the Port of London Authority (PLA) in Gravesend and Forth Ports, including at Tilbury, for paid six-month traineeships this spring, as part of the Government’s £2.4 billion Kickstart work programme.
Read more![Kickstart for young people's careers on the Thames](http://www.pla.co.uk/assets/pla-ted-jones-kickstartv2.jpg)
“Kickstarters”, recruited by the Gravesend-based Port of London Authority (PLA), as part of a Government scheme to help unemployed young people, travelled up the River Thames to meet the employment minister, Mims Davies MP, at Westminster (10 May).
Read more![Kickstarters' river trip to meet employment minister](/assets/kickstarters-group-shot-bf-2.png)
Kings College School took home the first prize and £1000 in the Port of London Authority’s (PLA) annual Rowing Safety Awards at a ceremony at the school’s rowing club on Putney Embankment.
Read more![Kings College School takes home PLA Rowing Safety Award](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/dsc2987-small.jpg)