This prolific Derby criminal spent 2020 carrying out a series of nasty offences including threatening to chop people with a machete and beating up his girlfriend in the back of a taxi.
Derby Crown Court heard how Jamie Birks also told a female paramedi…
A Derbyshire teenager has died after the car he was travelling in flipped over in a crash days before Christmas.
Jake Birkinshaw, from Hathersage, was in a silver Ford Fiesta when it crashed on Saturday night, December 19.
The 19-year-old was sadly pro…
A Burton trucker was nearly run off the road by an Amazon delivery driver in a shocking road rage attack caught on camera.
The heart-stopping footage caught on dash cam shows the angry delivery driver for the online retail giant trying to force Adrian …
A pair of drug couriers loaded half a million pounds of high-strength cannabis into the back of a lorry on the A50 near Derby.
A court heard how corrupt Louis McPhillips met fellow dealer Ben Kelly on the M1 near Chesterfield before travelling in convo…
A corrupt truck driver from Armagh and a courier from west London have been convicted for attempting to smuggle cannabis from the UK to Ireland.
The criminal conspiracy was uncovered after National Crime Agency officers tracked down CCTV of the…
Retail giant Amazon has sacked a driver after a shocking video emerged of him aggressively chasing down another vehicle in Derbyshire.Footage shows the moment the fuming driver veers into oncoming traffic seemingly to “chase” another truck driver, he w…
The team at Leicestershire’s Jobcentres says there are still opportunities out there – despite new figures showing the unemployment rate still rising.
As the rise in Covid-19 cases threatens further lockdowns, and the end of the furlough scheme draws c…
Drifting a vehicle is not the most socially acceptable and reasonable behavior, especially when it’s done outside the confines of a racetrack.
However, there are instances where drifting is not only acceptable, but also necessary. You would not expe…
Out of all the things you can do for fun in a vehicle, drifting sits up there with the best of them. Whether it’s lapping a world-famous circuit in Germany, crawling up a rocky trail, glazing over sand dunes or just spending some time on the back seat …
A woman, her partner and her four young children were made to wait for 12 hours at the side of the road for breakdown cover after a trip to Skegness went wrong.
Katie Holmes, who is from Chesterfield, set off with her partner and children to the seasid…
John Rastrick, 66, was travelling northbound in his truck on the M1 on the evening of January, 17 2019 when the young woman’s car was in a collision with another vehicle before his eyes.
The car burst into flames and the driver, Pari Mistry, of Leic…
This is the moment a lorry driver caused chaos on a Derbyshire road after attempting a turn too big for his wagon.
Derbyshire Roads Policing Unit were called after the driver of the vehicle caused a complete obstruction of the highway.
The blue HGV had…
Part of the M1 in Derbyshire closed on Tuesday (July 7) afternoon following a serious multi-vehicle crash.
Highways England reported the M1 closure is on the northbound stretch between junction 28 for Alfreton and junction 29 for Chesterfield.
Derbyshi…
The M1 was closed this afternoon (Tuesday) after a road traffic collision between a lorry and two cars.
Two people were taken to hospital after the incident which occurred at 1.40pm on the motorway.
The incident closed the northbound carriageway juncti…
Service stations are the multiple beating hearts of the nation’s road system. On the first Monday since the coronavirus alert level was downgraded, the BBC visited the UK’s first motorway services to test its pulse and to find…