Plans for 48 houses to be built behind a chip shop near Prees have been rejected due to the lack of green space.
Gleeson Homes had intended to develop a field in Prees Heath, accessed through the car park of the chip shop on the A49, to provide starter…
A MAN who stabbed a truck driver during a road rage confrontation has been jailed for two years.Conor Jagodzinksi, 28, from Accrington, slashed at John Fitzpatrick’s stomach during a confrontation on the A49 near Whitchurch in Cheshire on Friday, Augus…
WINWICK Road was closed by a crash earlier today.The accident occurred near to Swan pub and Myddleton Lane in Winwick at around midday today, Sunday.
And the A49 remained shut for several hours as a result.
Eyewitnesses saw three police cars at the sce…
In a letter to MP Owen Paterson and council leader Peter Nutting, Wem resident Susan Griffiths said HGVs had damaged road signs, bollards, walls and even the door of ambulance.
She claims signs directing lorries to Wem Industrial Site, installed in a b…
Police are hunting a biker after a lorry driver was seriously injured in a brutal road rage attack.
Emergency services descended on the A49 at Whitchurch on the Cheshire/Shropshire border following an altercation near to Bradley Green Lane at aro…
King Street will be closed 24/7 for the foreseeable future after the Buttercross was badly damaged during an incident overnight on Wednesday.
Councillors believe a lorry driver hit the building while trying to avoid an overnight closure of the A49.
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The facility was told back in January that it could tee-up a major revamp which will see its greens and fairways raised in order to create a more challenging playing experience.
As part of the plans, which also see nine disused holes on the course b…
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The Scania lorry overturned on the M6 northbound exit slip road at junction 25 (Wigan, A49) at around 9am this morning (April 23).
The driver has escaped from the crash unscathed, but recovery is proving difficult due to the position of the lorry un…
A PROFESSIONAL driver smoked cannabis the night before heading to work, a court has heard.James Robert Hall, 33, of Emlyn Avenue, Hereford, admitted the offence when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford on March 18.
Prosecutor Shafquat Reaz told …
Police were called and the A49 southbound at Strefford near the Wistanstow turn was temporarily closed after a HGV burst its tyre.
Officers expect the road to be closed for around two hours and advise people to avoid the area.
A spokesperson for South …
AN OVERTURNED lorry caused delays in south Herefordshire this morning.Police said they received reports of an overturned heavy goods vehicle on the A4137, around two miles north of the A40 junction near Glewstone at 10.45am.
The lorry was carrying…
A link road connecting the derelict Parkside Colliery in Newton-le-Willows to the M6 Motorway could boost the borough’s economy by more than £400m a year, council chiefs have claimed.
This week St Helens Council’s planning committee granted planning pe…
A CRASH has closed the A49 at Dinmore this morning (Wednesday).
A police spokesperson said the crash happened on the Leominster side of the hill.
The road will be closed for some time, and motorists are advised to find another route.
An ambulance servi…
Clun was left ‘cut in two’ by the floods after the River Clun burst its banks.
The A488 through Clun is currently impassable due to flooding. The river has burst it’s banks so the village is currently cut in two. pic.twitter.com/XlIJw9Pvd1
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