Warwick-based automotive company developing EV trucks, OX Delivers has received a €10 million grant from the U.K. government. The grant comes from the non-profit organisation Advanced Propulsion Centre, which facilitates the government’s fund…
Celebrations of Philip Larkin on what would have been his 100th birthday will take place across the country on Tuesday 9 August, with Hull taking centre stage.
A series of exciting and innovative centenary events will kick off in the city, supported wi…
Coventry City Council said it was “bitterly disappointed” that the bin lorry driver strike took so long to resolve after a deal was finally reached with the Unite union last week. The row, which started in January, ended with an agreement that H…
A lorry travelling down the M1 has caught fire. The vehicle was on the motorway heading northbound between junction 16, Daventry and 17, near the Dunchurch, Coventry exit when it caught alight.
Smoke can be seen filling the sky as the fire started arou…
A lorry has caught fire on the M1 near Coventry. The vehicle was travelling northbound between junction 16, Daventry and 17, near the Dunchurch, Coventry exit when the fire started shortly before 3.30pm this afternoon.
Coventry Live reports that smoke …
A Lancashire logistics firm has been successfully acquired by one of the largest privately-owned transport companies in the United Kingdom, Turners (Soham) Ltd (“Turners”), which operates from 32 sites across the UK.
MKT Logistics (“MKT”), which was ad…
Lancashire-based MKT Logistics has been acquired, for an undisclosed sum, by privately-owned Turners (Soham), which operates from 32 UK sites.
MKT provides haulage and pallet distribution services throughout the UK, with a fleet of almost 90 trucks.
It…
The protest caused long tailbacks
Andy Carloman, who runs Telford based Total Property Care, organised a convoy under the national banner Stand up to Fuel Prices UK Wide which travelled slowly from Shifnal Services to junction 1 of the M54 and th…
The protests could bring traffic on the motorways to a standstill
Drivers angry at the ever-increasing cost of petrol and diesel are due to hold go-slow protests around the country, with two of those demonstrations due to be held in the region.
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Nuclear warheads have been spotted travelling down the M6. A convoy of olive green military trucks was said to have moved weapons across the country, but campaigners claim they “should be taken off our roads altogether”.
They have called for a stop to …