For years, in rural and semi-rural areas of the North of England, the Land Rover Defender has been King of the road. You would often see them trundling around, some bearing a sticker saying, ‘one life – live it’ or my personal favourite ‘One wi…
Just a couple of miles off the A2 lies the charming village of Cobham.
The hamlet, near Gravesend, is home to fewer than 1,500 people and fits the bill as a quintessential Kent village.
Despite being so close to the main road, Cobham is a walkers parad…
A £30 million development that will transform Hull city centre has been submitted to planners.
The proposal for Shirethorn House and the adjacent land and buildings at the corner of Ferensway and Spencer Street will feature more than 250 residential an…
The M25 is closed clockwise between Junction 29 (Romford) and Junction 30 (Thurrock) due to a collision.
A lorry has collided with the safety barrier and caught fire.
The road is expected to remain closed for several hours.
There are long delays in exc…
Police in South Yorkshire, England, caught a truck driver with a mobile phone in each hand as he drove – with no seatbelt on – along a highway earlier in February. Officers were using an unmarked heavy goods vehicle to pull up next to drivers to get …
It doesn’t necessarily involve crossing a border. You can be trafficked in your home town.
by Samir Goswami and Natalie Jesionka The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act, passed in 2000, defines human trafficking as the use of force, fraud or…
A SCHOOLGIRL was killed after she was clipped by a lorry’s wing mirror while walking along a country road.
Holly Chevassut, 14, was struck by the 7.5-tonne truck on a lane with no street lights, an inquest heard.
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Schoolgirl Holly Chevassut was rush…
This is the moment an ‘oblivious’ lorry driver is caught using his phone while behind the wheel.
He was caught as part of the National Police Chiefs Council’s crackdown on drivers using mobile phone on the roads.
Officers can be seen spying on the truc…
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he Queen has spoken publicly for the first time about getting her Covid-19 jab, saying, “It didn’t hurt at all.”
Addressing vaccine hesitancy, she added: “It is obviously difficult for people if they’ve never had a vaccine…but they ought…
Chickens are “dying like flies” in their millions while being transported from farms to abattoirs because of poorly ventilated lorries, a whistleblower has told the Guardian.
Around one million chickens are dead on arrival at slaughterhouses in …
Motorway police who have been using a new HGV cab to catch drivers flouting the rules of the road last week say they stopped more than 50 drivers.
As part of Operation Tramline, officers spotted offences such as using a mobile phone, not wearing a seat…
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London Cabbie Peter Carey and WWII Veteran Ron Johnson have become the best of friends since meeting through The Taxi Charity.
Peter Carey who has been a licensed cabbie for 20 years, joined as a …
For admirers of the Queen of the Skies, it is a sombre sight. Nine former British Airways Boeing 747-400s – former flagships of the flag carrier and still resplendent in their liveries – line up on the hard standing of a rural airfield in the west of E…
Nicola Sturgeon has announced Scotland’s “progressive easing” out of lockdown, with the majority of businesses scheduled to reopen in the last week of April.Before then, though, there will be changes made to social distancing measures in March, at whic…
A range of investment projects are set to get under way in Lowestoft in 2021, with an “iconic” £126.75m bridge at the forefront of the regeneration.
After more than 100 years of waiting, it is finally all systems go for the new Gull Win…