A BRADFORD man with Down’s syndrome who suffered a spate of online bullying has thanked a group of truck drivers, who “accepted him for who he is”, and even went the extra mile in paying him a special visit.Joshua Dunne, from Clayton, was targeted by t…
Pictured: Grandfather, 60, killed when large chunk of concrete ‘fell from the back of a lorry’ and smashed through his windscreen in front of his horrified wife and two grandchildren
Stephen Oscroft was driving with his wife and …
Chunk of concrete ‘that fell off back of truck’ smashes through windscreen and kills driver
Driver in Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, died after concrete hit their windscreen
The large piece of rock crashed through the windscreen on T…
A TEENAGER who dragged PC Andrew Harper to his death behind his getaway car claims he would have tried to save him if he had known. Henry Long, 19, who admits manslaughter but denies murder, said the officer’s death was ‘disgraceful’ and he cannot slee…
Sports stars and clubs across the world continue to provide an insight into their lives on social media.Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the best examples from July 5.
Football
The NHS turned 72 on Sunday and the Premier League posted a video …
These are some of the criminals from Leeds who were locked up last month.
The list features robbers and burglars, including three family members who targeted properties across the north of England.
It also features men who assaulted and harassed their …
The next time you see a heavy vehicle on the road, think about the experts – and those in the making – that keep them moving, including apprentices from @S_ERC.
JP Macauley (20) from Crumlin, is a second year Level 2 Heavy Vehicle Apprentice based in B…
Capture tidal energy
There was a major omission in the article “Soaring Twenties”.
Energy in the form of electricity generated from wind and solar will, as described, probably dominate. Missing is the third gift of nature – tidal energy from a barrage …
Rikki Lount stole a Nissan Navara from the car park of Orston Shooting Ground, on Bottesford Lane, Orston, in Nottinghamshire, on September 1, 2019.
The dog, four-year-old “Austin”, was recovering from an operation on his leg in the back, and his fr…
A Lancashire veg grower and machinery maker has managed to rack up an impressive 600,000 miles in his mid-noughties Toyota Land Cruiser, without it suffering any serious mechanical maladies.
Peter Gresty, from St Michaels on Wyre, Prest…
Dramatic pictures show firefighters using a fork-lift truck to hoist a trapped horse out of a cesspit – by its HOOVES.
A telehandler was used to winch the animal free after it was wedged upside-down in the hole.
Firefighters spent more than two-and-a-h…
While many people have been made unemployed across the region as a result of the coronavirus, there are still a range of companies who are desperately looking for workers to help out during this difficult time.
This includes a range of Supermarkets in…
A woman has spoken out about surviving a horror smash where she could have lost her legs and her long road to recovery.
Katie Pease’s life was turned upside down after colliding head-on with a truck on a road near Melton in November 2016.
“If I hadn’t …
Two lanes are currently closed on the M1 this morning after a serious crash.
The incident has happened on the M1 southbound between junction 22 and junction 21 near Leicester.
According to Highways England, emergency services are at the scene, reports …
Rows of nappies, rice, coffee, cat food, bleach and everyday household items as far as the eye can see – and even further – are starting to fill Aldi’s biggest UK distribution centre.
The gigantic new warehouse, which has taken around two years to buil…