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A rat-run road is to be closed for overnight investigations – to try to solve flooding issues once and for all. Chemical Lane runs adjacent to the A500 junctions for Longport[1] and Reginald Mitchell Way.
But it can remain impassable for days after hea…
Scores of roads across North Staffordshire have been left under water as Storm Babet has brought hours of heavy rain to the area. Police say officers have been ‘working tirelessly’ to rescue people stranded in floodwater.
It comes as the area remains u…
Motorists are being warned the A500[1] has been left ‘partially blocked’ following a collision. The crash has triggered around two miles of queues on the D-road.
Meanwhile one passing driver says a lorry and a car are involved in the smash which has ta…
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…
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…
As pressure grows on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to make an announcement about the future of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 line, we take a look back at Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s failed £800,000 bid to secure a stop in the city on the h…
Paramedics assessed a lorry driver after an A500 crash. The HGV finished on a grass verge alongside the A500 between the Audley and Talke junctions yesterday.
It followed reports that a lorry had ‘hit a bridge’.
West Midlands Ambulance Service sent one…
There are long delays on the M6 southbound towards Stoke-on-Trent this afternoon after a jack-knifed lorry damaged a bridge. The incident occurred at junction 15 for the A500 D to Stoke-on-Trent and queues stretch back over eight miles to junction 16 f…
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…
A woman was bitten while trying to stop her pet from being attacked by a roaming dog. And today Staffordshire Police[1] are trying to trace the owner of the Mastiff following the incident on Cobridge’s[2] Mulgrave Street.
Officers say the victim, a wom…