Increased demand for concrete arising from development of the HS2 high-speed rail link through Staffordshire and Cheshire prompted ready-mix specialist Mincrete to invest in another couple of Mercedes-Benz truck mixers.
The subject of Mercedes-Benz Fin…
Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating after the death of a man at a rail freight terminal in Widnes. Police were called to the terminal at around 4.30am on Monday, following what they described as an “industrial incident”.
When t…
A Ukrainian refugee has started a new life with his family in South Cheshire – and landed the ‘best job ever’ at Bentley Motors. Nick and Christina Zhmurchenko and their daughter Karina fled their home in Kyiv, Ukraine, when the invasion started and dr…
This was the scene which greeted firefighters this afternoon – as a HGV was engulfed in flames. Crews were scrambled to London Road in Sandbach this afternoon where the truck was ‘well-alight’.
And firefighters from Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service too…
Resurfacing works are being carried out on the M6 after a truck fire earlier this morning. The whole northbound stretch between junctions 17 and 18 was shut off after crews were scrambled to the blaze just before 4.10am.
Now National Highways has confi…
The M6 northbound is closed due to an earlier lorry fire.
Emergency services were called to the incident at around 4.15m this morning and the stretch of motorway was closed from J17 A534 Old Mill Road ( Sandbach / Crewe) to J18 A54 Middlewich Road (Mid…
Emergency services remain at the scene of a large truck fire on the M6 this morning – leaving a whole stretch of the northbound carriageway closed off.
Now a diversion route has been set up for morning commuters as crews remain at the scene of the inci…
Lincoln City manager Michael Appleton has left his role at the club, one year after guiding the side to the League One play-off final.
The former Oxford United boss oversaw close to 150 games in charge of Lincoln City, and tasked with the unenviable jo…
The Easter weekend is upon us and those who have some time off work will be planning just how to make the best use of this four-day break. As such the roads around the area – along with the M6 – are expected to be busy.
So much so that The Mirror repor…
A road in Macclesfield was closed after a trailer attached to a truck caught fire. At around 1.11pm today (March 24) crews from Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to reports of a trailer fire on Cumberland Street.
The incident happened on the…