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London Cabbie Peter Carey and WWII Veteran Ron Johnson have become the best of friends since meeting through The Taxi Charity.
Peter Carey who has been a licensed cabbie for 20 years, joined as a …
Forklift driver who swindled £176,000 from Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez’s bank card used it so much on shopping spree that ‘he can’t remember everything he bought with it after drinking and taking drugs’Mohamed Sharif, 32, spent a month blowing a …
The A40 across the border in Oxfordshire has been closed in both directions after a crash involving a lorry at around noon today (Thursday, February 25).
The collision happened on the A40 between Barnard Gate and Eynsham, causing long queues of traffic…
A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck nations in Africa and Latin America.Warnings in the regions went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths.
It takes a…
London-based TreeCard is a payment card that reforests each time you spend. The new Monzo and Revolut rival is known as the world’s first wooden MasterCard payment card.
Funding led by EQT Ventures
Now, TreeCard just announced that it bagged $5.12M (ne…
By Natalie Thomas
LONDON (Reuters) – Heralded by the whirr of its underpowered electric engine and the clink of bottles stacked in crates on the back, Ella Shone’s ‘Topup Truck’ started life ferrying morning milk to the doorsteps of bleary-eyed Londone…
A range of investment projects are set to get under way in Lowestoft in 2021, with an “iconic” £126.75m bridge at the forefront of the regeneration.
After more than 100 years of waiting, it is finally all systems go for the new Gull Win…
Businesses operating heavy goods vehicles that are not yet compliant with the Direct Vision Standard (DVS), which comes into force from 1 March 2021, should consider using rental to avoid thousands of pounds in fines when they operate within the M25, a…
Devon engineering pioneer Dick Barr, who used his experience building early jet engines during the Second World War to found one of the region’s most successful companies, has died at the age of 100.Centrax, the firm he helped bring to Newton Abbot, ha…
Volvo Trucks and DHL Freight have announced a trial of heavy-duty electric truck technology for medium-distance regional transportation in Sweden.
The project will see the world’s first operation of a fully-electric Volvo FH with a gross comb…
The weather this week could feel more like May than February, forecasters have predicted.Much of the UK could reportedly see “the first signs of spring” in the coming days in what will likely be a welcome relief to Britons currently under coronavirus l…
DHL Freight, one of the leading road freight providers in Europe, and Volvo Trucks have partnered to speed up the introduction of heavy duty electric trucks to be used for regional transport in Europe. The combined effort marks another important step t…
Here are the headlines on Tuesday, February 23
Lockdown road map will bring ‘incomparably better’ lives
Boris Johnson has said spring and summer in England will usher in changes to make lives ‘incomparably better’ as he set out a plan to fully ease the…
UK independent parcel carrier Yodel has reduced its carbon emissions by 25% despite record growth over the last five years. The significant reduction can be attributed to Yodel’s £17m investment in its fleet and technology.
Fleet improvements
As part o…
Three years after the launch of small-series production, deliveries of Daimler Trucks’ all-electric light-duty truck FUSO eCanter have now surpassed 200 vehicles.
Customers in eleven countries and cities such as New York, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Amsterd…