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 …
Read More »A38 sliproads to close for 15 days near Royal Mail building
Parts of the A38 will close for 15 days from tomorrow (Monday, June 10). The A38 in the Patchway and Filton areas of South Gloucestershire will see part of the slip roads close near the Royal Mail Bristol and the B4057 Gipsy Patch Lane. Closures will affect both sides of …
Read More »Live updates as multi-vehicle crash closes A14 in Cambridgeshire
Crash caused ‘large diesel and oil spillage’ The crash involving two lorries on the A14 earlier today caused a diesel and oil spillage, National Highways has said. Cambridgeshire Police led the response to the crash, alongside the East of England Ambulance Service, Northamptonshire Police, National Highways, and the Environment Agency. …
Read More »Hull Royal Infirmary car park operator lodges bid to waive improvement requirements to keep operating
The operator of a car park used by Hull Royal Infirmary staff, patients and visitors is bidding to waive requirements that it improves the facility so it can keep operating. An application lodged by Bank Parking for the Fountain Street car park is seeking to remove a planning condition requiring …
Read More »The Gloucestershire stories you may have missed in the past seven days
Into the first week in October and the temperatures are surprisingly quite warm after the hottest September on record. As ever, here are seven weekly stories in Gloucestershire where we have a range of stories from all six parts of our county. This week the overwhelming news Gloucestershire Live has …
Read More »Driver in Royal Stoke after crashing into wall
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 …
Read More »Angry Ash slams council after £70 fine for ‘letting pedestrians cross road’
An IT manager has been slapped with a £70 fine by a council spy camera – after ‘letting pedestrians cross a road’. Ash Hulme says he was pulling onto the Royal Mail car park, on Leek Road, when he stopped to let pedestrians pass. But the 36-year-old has been left …
Read More »Council A500 blunder leaves taxpayers £1.50 out of pocket
A council has apologised to around 100 taxpayers – after an A500 blunder left some of them out of pocket. Cheshire East Council sent the letter regarding its desire to turn the entire stretch of the A500 between the M6 roundabout at Barthomley and the Weston roundabout into a dual-carriageway …
Read More »Trains disrupted near Ely as ‘concern for woman’s welfare’ sparks emergency response
Trains between King’s Lynn and Ely was disrupted on Thursday morning (June 8) after reports of concerns for a woman’s welfare. The incident is believed to have taken place just after 5am. Officers from British Transport Police were called to the line near Littleport station after what was first reported …
Read More »Woman seriously injured in Three Legged Cross crash
A woman has been left seriously injured in hospital after a car crash in Dorset. The woman, in her 40s, was cut free from a white Vauxhall Corsa following the single-vehicle crash on Station Road, near to the junction with Newman’s Lane, in West Moors yesterday (May 25). Dorset Police …
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