Staffordshire-based construction giants JCB is offering 200 new jobs in North Staffordshire as it needs workers to help “fuel record growth”. The company already employs more than 8,000 staff, but is looking for assembly line workers, forklift truck dr…
Northamptonshire Help for Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, marking a major escalation of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014.
The invasion has caused one of the largest refugee cris…
Smith Brothers is thrilled to be celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.
With origins dating all the way back to 1897 when founder Walter Smith began to lay the foundations of what would become one of the UK’s largest independent HVAC merchants.
T…
Former Dragons’ Den star Hilary Devey who has died aged 65 had a big connection to Burton thanks to her magnificent home. The TV star died on Saturday, June 11, after a long illness, at her home in Morocco her publicist Benjamin Webb has said.
And the …
Shocking dash cam footage shows the terrifying moment a car appears to get wedged under the back of a lorry’s trailer unit and is dragged along the A38. The truck driver appears oblivious as the car is struck at first after the car got too close and th…
This is the terrifying moment a car appears to get wedged under the back of a lorry’s trailer unit and is dragged along the A38 in Burton. The truck driver appears not to know the car is struck at first after the car got too close and the bonnet gets j…
Hexagon Leasing has hired the former Commercial Director of Motus Commercials, Alan Ellison as its new CEO.
Ellison, who begins his role this week, previously held the position of Commercial Director at Motus for five years and spent 12 years a…
Almost 300 knives have been taken off the streets of Staffordshire as part of a major operation lasting six days. They were recovered from across the county during Operation Sceptre.
The operation, which tackles knife-related crime by offering people a…
A truck that hit a sign caused a busy Staffordshire route to be blocked for hours. Officers from Staffordshire Police and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to Tean Road Recreation Ground in Cheadle at around 9.30am yesterday morning, Th…
A crash which left a lorry driver died when three army vehicles and his truck collided on the A38 was an “extremely tragic” accident, an inquest has heard. Prior to his death, Derbyshire man John Windle was an experienced lorry driver of 30 years.
Mr W…