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Why it matters: Both roles will focus on attracting international investment to create jobs and support business growth in Suffolk and Essex as Freeport East enters its fourth year.
The details: Alex Courage has been appointed as Head of International …
The organisation has pledged to focus on facilitating strategic growth across Ipswich and Colchester, including new commercial space linked to garden communities, university-led innovation hubs, and research-based economic development.
Supporting criti…
The scheme, known as FREEPORT 36, is being brought forward by Henry Boot’s development arm HBD in partnership with landowner St John’s College Cambridge.
The consent paves the way for a 300-acre industrial and manufacturing park delivering buildings fr…
For more than a decade, automakers have teased modular skateboard EV platforms as enabling lots of “top hats”—resulting in more exciting, relatively affordable niche vehicles that don’t have to be produced in high numbers to be profitable, because they…
The Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain have revoked the operator licence of Scorpion Engineering Ltd following a public inquiry held in Bristol in October 2025. The decision, taken by Traffic Commissioner Kevin Rooney, will take effect from 24 Jan…
The material to organise the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, will mostly be delivered by road despite the availability of Rhaetian Railway to use their trains. The company said that there was no increased interest in using rail freigh…
The share of dangerous goods transported in the EU (in tonne-kilometres[1]) remained the same in 2019 and 2020: around 4% of the EU total.
The Member States that recorded the highest shares of dangerous goods in their road transport were Cyprus (…
Here is what is currently confirmed, what remains under consultation, and what it means in practice for haulage operators.
No ban on using existing diesel lorries
Despite repeated claims in national newspapers, there is no proposal to ban the use of di…
By RICHARD MARSDEN, GENERAL REPORTER[1] Published: 15:58, 13 January 2026 | Updated: 17:28, 13 January 2026
The grieving widow of one of two Ryanair pilots killed in a horrific motorway crash told of her ‘struggle to see how I have a…
Motorists are facing chaos on a busy motorway which has been shut in both directions in a police-led incident.
Both carriageways of the M5[1] between junction 13, for Stroud, and junction 14, for Dursley/Falfield, are shut following a crash[2] this mo…