Drivers are being warned that a section of the busy A50 into and out of Leicester will be shut in both directions from Monday (October 30). The roadworks are part of the ongoing Fiveways junction remodelling[1] and the 10-day closure will affect Woodga…
A biker has been taken to hospital with ‘potentially serious injuries’ after an A50 crash. Police and paramedics were called to the A50 through Fenton[1] during last night’s rush-hour.
Staffordshire Police[2] are refusing to reveal any details followin…
Paramedics have today been rushed to the scene of a crash on the A50 that saw a car and lorry collide. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the junction of the A50[1] and A522 just before 7.30am today, October 20.
The driver of the car, a man,…
A £3.8 million Levelling Up project to transform a railway station has hit the buffers – after a mining survey was ordered. The cash – allocated through the Government’s Town Deal Fund – has been earmarked to extend Kidsgrove[1] Station with a new stat…
Plans for an excavator driving training facility in Derbyshire are set for approval. The project, from David Poyser of DCP Farms, would see the new facility built on unviable farmland at Brooklands House Farm in Grove Lane, Doveridge, alongside the A50…
A motorcyclist who died in a crash in Burton this week has been named. Sam Bagley, aged 23, was riding his motorbike on Wellington Road yesterday, Thursday, October 5 when he was involved in a collision with a lorry just before 6am.
Emergency services …
Motorists are facing delays this evening after a crash on the A50.[1] The accident has happened near the bet365 Stadium with eye-witnesses reporting two lorries being involved.
Pictures show one of the lorries with the cab crumpled and debris on the ro…
Money that would have been spent on the HS2 rail project – most of which had already been scrapped in the Derby area[1] in 2021 anyway – is to be spent improving roads and public transport “benefiting more people, in more places, more quickly”, accordi…
The locations of the new train stations set to be built along a new line between Burton and Leicester have been revealed. Rishi Sunak yesterday announced the historic Ivanhoe line through East Staffordshire, South Derbyshire and North West Leicestershi…
A major project to bulldoze two A50 roundabouts[1] that cause gridlock every day has finally been given the green light – more than a decade after it was first mooted. The move to take out the McDonald’s and Derby Road roundabouts, in Uttoxeter[2], wil…
Last minute lobbying by the industry led by West Midlands mayor Andy Street fell on deaf ears today as the prime minister officially pulled the plug on the rest of HS2.
The stretch from London to Brimingham will continue with Rishi Sunak pledging that …
Motorists were warned to expect delays and avoid the area where possible following a serious multi-vehicle crash on the A453. The road was been closed southbound between the A52 (Nottingham) and the M1/A50.
All emergency services were on the scene with…
Motorists are facing delays after a well-used road was dug up – again. And four-way lights have gone up at Maunders Road’s junction with Foxley Lane as gas works are again being carried out in Milton.[1]
The works are also expected to last another coup…
Police and paramedics[1] were called to a smash on the D-road last night. Witnesses say part of the stretch – between Hanford and Stoke[2] – was closed as a result of the crash.
Staffordshire Police[3] were called to the scene at around 7.45pm. Officer…