A timeline of Interserve’s woe

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Contractor’s disastrous foray into energy-from-waste saw firm rack up crippling losses

As Interserve shareholders reject the firm’s rescue plan and push it into administration the industry is left asking how another contractor got itself into this mess. 

At the shareholder meeting to determine the company’s future, chairman Glyn Barker said everything really started to go wrong in the middle of 2016.

He said: "Huge problems in EfW contracts began to manifest themselves.

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