The checks behind each item you read, and how we put a mistake right.
Last updated: 5 November 2026
Since 21 October 2026, every item in The Wire passes the same checks before it reaches you. Read on to see those checks, who sets them, and how we put a mistake right.
Follow the whole UK and Irish build-out here, from the grid and water to transport, housing and data centres. Our sources are the bodies that make the decisions and publish the documents. They include government departments, regulators, network operators, the official planning registers and the developers themselves.
Expect each edition to hold only what is new since the last one. An item goes in only if it is dated on or after the day of the last edition, so nothing old is padded out as new. Look for the news a director or project lead would want, such as a decision, a planning approval, a contract, new funding, a milestone or a safety event.
Hold us to these 4 checks on every Wire item since 21 October 2026. Tell us if one ever fails you.
First, we open the item at its source and read the date on the page itself.
Second, we trace every figure to that source. Open the source link on any item and you can read the original document yourself.
Third, an independent check of every fact against the source runs before the item goes out, separately from the writing.
Fourth, we look up the exact name of any Act, regulation or public body we mention, on legislation.gov.uk or on the body's own website.
Our map follows one extra rule. A project's status changes there only when the owner's own record or the official register says so. Trade press alone never moves it.
Look for the label "Our read" on each Wire item. Everything above it comes from the source, and our view starts there, so you can always tell which is which.
Read figures in pounds or euros wherever the source gives them that way. A dollar figure stays in dollars, as the source gave it, and we tell you so.
Take each caption at its word. The picture shows what its caption says. It is the source's own picture, our own design, or a licensed photograph of the named UK or Irish place.
Judge our coverage on its merits. Nobody pays to appear in it, and no commercial relationship changes what we publish. Spotlight features are promotional, and you will always see them labelled that way.
Our editors decide what we cover, write the rules every piece follows and set the checks above. We use AI to find, read and draft from the large volume of public documents, inside those rules.
Read our AI use policy to see which tools we use. Read about our editors, or go to How we verify for the full method behind the map.
Tell us at press@gridteamai.com, and we will check the point against the source. If we were wrong, we correct the page and mark it with the date of the correction.
Look for that date near the top of a corrected Wire item, and find each change listed on our corrections page.