As the UK enters the peak season for bridge strikes, the AA’s business services team has lent its support to campaigns by the likes of Network Rail and the Freight Transport Association (FTA) to raise awareness of the costly damage caused by these avoi…
This is a round-up of some of the biggest cases dealt with across the region as we name and shame a number of those up in court this week.
Three robbers have been jailed over a spate of terrifying knifepoint late-night hold-ups. They targeted their vic…
There are severe delays on the M6 motorway in Staffordshire after a lorry crashed across the central reservation of the motorway in the early hours of this morning.
Three lanes of the northbound carriageway have reopened between junction 12 (Gailey) an…
A new link road and a village bypass have been put forward as options to ease the traffic impact of a proposed rail freight hub outside Hinckley.
Residents have been viewing proposed highways developments to reduce the impact of the 440-acre Hinckley N…
Comic poet David Williams’s goes on an ‘ode’ trip of his worst holiday experiences in this laugh-out-loud holiday-themed collection.By Timothy Arden
If there’s one thing that we Brits all agree on, it’s that nothing beats a good holiday. Be it to Be…
A truck who died on the M6 has been named.
Johannes Jacobus Provence, aged 49 and from Cumbria, died after the HGV he was driving left the southbound carriageway of the M6 between junctions 13 and 12, near Cannock, at around 1pm on Monday, July 22.
His…
The M6 motorway is closed in Staffordshire due to a fatal accident this afternoon (Monday July 22).
Inrix, the traffic data company, reports the southbound carriageway is shut and there is queueing traffic due to the collision between junction 13 (Staf…
The A5 near Hinckley was shut for most of today shut following a collision.
Police said the Dodwells roundabout was closed due to a road traffic collision.
A spokesman said: “The A5 is closed from The Long Shoot to the Nutts Lane roundabout.
“Please av…
