Tag Archives: Staffordshire Police

A crash closed a North Staffordshire road for hours. Neighbours reported the incident on Heathcote Road, in Halmerend. It is understood that the emergency services were alerted just before midnight last night. Pictures show police cars and ambulances at the scene. One StokeonTrentLive reader said: “One moving vehicle and two …

A two-car crash has claimed the life of a driver and left a passenger in Stoke-on-Trent’s main hospital. Police, firefighters, paramedics were called to the crash on Rawnsley Road, in Staffordshire, on Sunday night. An air ambulance landed as part of the emergency services response. A West Midlands Ambulance Service …

One lane of a busy roundabout remains coned off this afternoon after a crash. Sand has been put down on the carriageway and cobbles have been displaced on the roundabout linking Waterloo Road, Potteries Way and Hope Street, in Hanley. The temporary repair work means traffic travelling down Waterloo Road …

Caverswall villagers have said goodbye to their ‘popular’ postman after 42 years of service. A farewell party was held for Dave Weston, 63, at the Auctioneers Arms in Caverswall Thursday night. The postie said it’s been a ‘real privilege’ to work as Caverswall’s postman for the last 12 years and …

A driver suffered serious leg injuries after a car crashed into a house in Shelton. Emergency services were called to the property on Cleveland Road at 6am on Tuesday (October 17). They discovered that a white Vauxhall Corsa had ‘collided with’ a house. The 19-year-old driver, who was travelling alone, …

A driver has needed hospital treatment after crashing into a wall. Paramedics treated the casualty after being called to Main Road, in Betley, at 6.58pm last night. Staffordshire Police closed part of Main Road – near East Lawns – following the collision. StokeonTrentLive has approached the force for a statement …

Mark Walker, 38, says he threw two punches at a customer who, he claims, had kicked his van and tried to hit him following a row over a parcel in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent Delivery driver Mark Walker has been suspended after, he says, a customer attacked him and he fought back …

A Royal Mail delivery driver has been suspended after getting into a fight with a customer in the street following a row over a parcel. Mark Walker said he threw two punches in “self-defence” after coming under attack from an angry customer. The 38-year-old agency worker has now been suspended …

Royal Mail delivery driver Mark Walker has been suspended on no pay after a row over a parcel ended in a street fight with punches being thrown. The 38-year-old says he had left a parcel on the doorstep of a Longton property after failing to get an answer. But as …

Retired electrician John Binsley was found dead on a beach near Skegness – after his neighbours in a Staffordshire village had not seen him for ‘several months’. A report by medics following the 71-year-old’s death has found he had taken excessive amounts of paracetamol and codeine. Staffordshire Police detectives say …