“Sometimes we’d be lost without them.” The NHS today has a terrifying number of plates to spin, all while facing enough challenges and workloads that would make Sisyphus run for cover. So when Adele Turner, an advance practitioner of blood transfusion at Lincoln County Hospital, says this about the Lincolnshire …
Read More »Election chief’s reminder message for voters ahead of 2 May polls
Manchester voters in two elections taking place this Thursday, 2 May, are being reminded of polling arrangements. Along with electors in the other nine boroughs of Greater Manchester, voters will be selecting the Mayor of Greater Manchester in mayoral elections. They will also be casting their votes across …
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 »Several people injured in Highland train crash involving the Flying Scotsman
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Emergency services are at the scene. Passengers are being treated at the scene of a train crash near Aviemore. At least two people have been taken to hospital in Inverness after two trains collided at around 7pm today. The incident …
Read More »The ‘lost’ London Underground stations that have changed names from Dover Street to Gillespie Road
London’s Underground rail network has been around for over 150 years so it will come as no surprise for most people to learn that a number of stations have undergone serious makeovers through the years. But even with the majority of stations getting updated and renovated over the last century …
Read More »First regular drone delivery service lifts off in UK
UK’s first drone delivery service launched by Royal Mail in Orkney The U.K’s Royal Mail has launched a daily drone delivery service for a group of Scottish islands in the far north of the country, making it the first regular postal service in the country to be powered by a …
Read More »A9 closed at Badenoch junction after three-vehicle crash
Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Emergency services have been called to a crash site on the A9 near Newtonmore. Traffic Scotland are advising motorists to avoid the area meantime Traffic Scotland have confirmed the road has closed in both north and south directions. The closure …
Read More »What the Flying Scotsman is, when it is coming to Devon and why we love it so much
Railway enthusiasts will be lining vantage points across South Devon on Sunday when one of the nation’s favourite locomotives steams through the county again. The Flying Scotsman, which is 100 years old in 2023, will be pulling a train from Bristol to Cornwall and back, and that means endless photo …
Read More »‘I travelled the entire 8-hour TfL Superloop London bus route and it’s desperately needed’ – Callum Marius
I don’t think there’s a better way to truly see London. I mean the real London – outer London. That’s my verdict from spending the past seven hours 40 minutes and 30 seconds completing the planned route of Transport for London’s (TfL) upcoming Superloop express bus service. Superloop is a …
Read More »Marden loses broadband and phones after car crash
A village has been left without broadband connection and landline phones following a car accident. A collision between a Royal Mail van at the junction of Chantry Road and Church Green in Marden, resulted in one of the vehicles smashing into a green telecommunications junction box. The damaged junction box …
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