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A motorway driver failed an alcohol test when found sleeping on the hard shoulder, city magistrates heard. A small amount of cannabis was also found in the car used by Vishal Rathod, 28, when checked on the M1 near Trowell. It led to a 14-month driving ban and £333 fine …

Motorcyclist Trevor Elkin lost an arm and suffered five broken ribs in a catastrophic A500 crash – when he was more than twice the drink-drive limit. The 59-year-old suffered the life-changing injury after smashing his Honda motorbike into the central reservation in the middle of the night. Now, just over …

A businessman who ran a £250,000 fraud involving used stamps being washed and sold on as if new has been jailed for four years. Paul Harrison and wife Samantha supplemented their incomes out of the illegal enterprise and used the proceeds to go on holiday, to buy a BMW and …

A busy road was closed for hours after a man threw bricks from a building during a stand off with police. Lewis Harrop, 27, who suffers with mental health problems, climbed onto scaffolding on a building on Oldham Road, near the Royal Mail sorting office close to the city centre. …

A postie hoarded more than 1,000 undelivered parcels and letters in his work locker and his home. William Laurie, 56, from Bridge of Weir, kept packages including Ikea cutlery, a watch and a batch of election polling cards during a two-year spell. He was finally caught out when suspicious Royal …

A woman with serious mental health problems who abducted a baby from a hospital has finally been sentenced – nearly two years later. Alicia Stewart, now 25, snatched the baby from his mother’s side at the entrance to Hull Royal Infirmary on December 27, 2017. Stewart, originally charged under the …

Royal Mail and BT have both been fined thousands for roadworks offences committed across Somerset. This comes after the two companies were taken to court by Somerset County Council for breaching several laws while working on roads across the county. Offences included closing a road without notice and failing to …

A lorry driver who crashed into the back of a truck on the M25 may not have been wearing his seatbelt. Kevin Thompson, 57, from Bedfordshire died after the lorry he was driving smashed into the back of a Royal Mail vehicle on the motorway earlier this year. The M25 …

Police found cannabis plants growing in a man’s bedroom after neighbours called 999 to raise the alarm over suspected burglars at a Grimsby home. When officers arrived they found the plants and later arrested Shaun Bradley at his work. His phone was full of text messages relating to drug deals. …

The number of dog attacks on postmen and women has leapt by 73 per cent in just one year, new figures show. The statistics, released after Royal Mail prosecuted a dog-sitter for letting a Jack Russell get out and bite a postman’s groin , show there were 133 attacks on …