Funding to help local hauliers upgrade their fleets to meet Greater Manchester’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ) requirements has been almost tripled to £12,000. Local operators will be able to apply for the support, up from an original proposal of just un…
The truck driver hailed a hero after parking his vehicle under a bridge on the M62 to stop a man from jumping has said ‘I’m not the hero of this story’.
Tom Birkett, 35, received praise from across the nation after a picture showing his truck trailer p…
The mum of a man who planned to jump from a bridge crossing the M62 has praised the hero lorry driver who saved her 28-year-old son’s life.
The unknown truck driver was hailed as a hero last week after he stopped on the motorway underneath the bridge w…
The mum of a young man who intended to jump off a bridge over the M62 has praised a hero lorry driver for saving his life.
An unnamed trucker was congratulated for stopping his lorry in the middle of the carriageway, after they spotted a man sitting ov…
The emergency services were called to the M56 this afternoon after a lorry left the carriage way and ended up on a field.
The incident happened between junctions 10 and 11 near Daresbury in Cheshire shortly after 4pm.
Pictures from the scene showed an …
It was the biggest bomb ever exploded in peacetime England: so vast that no building within half a mile is thought to have been left undamaged. Twenty-five years ago on Tuesday, the IRA detonated a device that would rip a gaping hole in Manchester city…
A truck driver has been praised after parking his lorry underneath a motorway bridge where a man was threatening to jump.
An extremely distressing image which has emerged today shows a man who had climbed over the railing of a bridge over the M62.
He w…
A shortage of HGV drivers which is leaving fresh produce destined for major supermarkets being dumped could be solved by employing ex-soldiers through a Greater Manchester company, it is claimed.
A major North West distributor has warned that retailers…
A BURY Council mechanic took advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to steal trailers, worth £8,000.With only a few people around at the council’s transport depot in April last year, 54-year-old Chris Lock helped himself to two trailers, telling an unwi…
A Blackley father-of-two hid a handgun in a stolen car to help pay an outstanding drug debt.
James George Henry Boland, 31, has three previous convictions to his name — two of which relate to drug offences.
After being indebted to a drug dealer, he min…