Oxfordshire haulier Reason Transport UK has been fined £5,000 after one of its drivers was crushed to death beneath a pallet of tiles he was trying to unload.
Petru Pop died in November 2016 while making the delivery to a residential address in High Wy…
MORE than £125,000 has been raised for a man who lost his wife of 11 years and three of his children in a horror crash near Oxford.Thousands of people have donated to a crowdfunding page set up hours after the deaths of 29-year-old Zoe Powell and three…
A FATHER and son growing team have broken the Oxfordshire county record with an enormous pumpkin so big it needed to be hoisted by a tractor.Gerald Short, 52 lives in Watlington, South Oxfordshire with his wife Nicola and his two children Oliver, 13 an…
A MAJOR road has been brought to a standstill after a serious crash in the early hours of this morning.Thames Valley Police is on the scene of the incident on the A40 between Oxford and Cassington where a truck and another vehicle c…
Oxfordshire-based Southern Plant & Tool Hire has taken delivery of a new 32-tonne rigid truck featuring a bespoke plant body from Andover Trailers, strengthening a relationship between the two companies that stretches back more than two decades.
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TRUCK Festival has raised over £15,000 for charity with the help of fans and artists.Due to Covid-19, Truck was forced to be cancelled this summer, however, the ‘charitable spirit of Truck remained a shining light in dark times’.
The festival and fans …
THE Deputy Mayor of Henley fixed two road signs in the town centre which were causing chaos after being flipped to face the wrong way.
David Eggleton was helped by Alan Webb, of Henley Town Council’s parks services team, when a resident alerted him to …
At 12.37pm on Friday, crews from Abingdon and Rewley Road raced to Charter multi-storey in Abingdon.
Two cars had crashed in a ‘confined’ space and firefighters had to make the scene safe again.
The low ceilings made the task nearly impossible f…
A PIONEERING ‘state-of-the-art’ crematorium fuelled by almost100 per cent green electricity is set to open its doors in Oxfordshire.Final touches are already underway for North Oxfordshire Crematorium and Memorial Park, which will use the UK’s very fir…
Shocking dashcam footage shows a truck driver looking at his phone as he hurtles down a UK highway — before plowing into a woman’s car, leaving her with a fractured spine.
Cary Gordon, 58, was filmed inside the cab of his truck staring at his dev…
ARMED police raced to a blaze in a truck, which was carrying ‘live ammunition’, yesterday afternoon.Two fire crews from Bicester were dealing with a vehicle on fire on the road between Stratton Audley and Launton when they realised it was tra…
The driver of a heavy goods lorry who ignored the weight restriction through an Oxfordshire village, has been fined after an alert villager exposed him by taking a picture on their phone.
The driver, Nathanial Freeman, was travelling through Long Witte…
Maybe it was the giraffe without a torso, just its neck and tiny head left lying on the floor, its features set, seemingly unaware of the absence of body or legs, into a seraphic smile. Then again, it might have been the promotional video loop for …
We’re good at meming things to death in the UK. You know, the kind of videos that the rest of the world really wouldn’t understand, but live on in our collective conscience as perfect little nuggets of what used to be. Surely in no other country would …
A TIKTOK craze has resulted in “idiotic” wannabe stars getting stuck in children’s swings while making videos to share on the popular app.
A schoolgirl in Southampton, Hants, was the latest youngster who had to be rescued after she took part in the vir…