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Burger King bids to open new branch in former Staffordshire …

Fast food chain Burger King has set its sights on a former Stafford restaurant turned car showroom. The town already has branches of KFC and McDonalds, but Burger King fans have to travel to Rugeley, Cannock or the Stafford North service station on the…

BREAKING | Boost for potential Hereford Bypass as Government …

The West Midlands will benefit from more frequent trains, more capacity and faster journeys in a major funding boost to create stronger public transport networks.
A total of £36 billion in savings from HS2 will be reinvested in hundreds of transport pr…

Plenty to see across region as heritage venues open up

Wightwick Manor will be among the venues open for Heritage Open Days
The Heritage Open Days features hundreds of activities around the theme of Creativity Unwrapped, sharing England’s colourful history of creativity and the festival will celebrate th…

Teenager, 17, dies in crash after police pursuit in Walsall

Bosty Lane with Daw End

A teenager has died and three people have been injured in a crash[1] in Aldridge, Walsall.
A car is believed to have collided with a tree near to Bosty Lane with Daw End in Aldridge, just before midnight (21 July). It’s beli…

Planned road closures in Gloucestershire this month

Metz Way in Gloucester is among those roads in Gloucestershire which roads bosses have said will be shut for maintenance this month. The closure of the city centre road was among those Gloucestershire County Council announced would have closures or res…

West Midlands station sees major planning progress made

Conditional approval to begin work on an outline business case has been given the go-ahead by the Department for Transport[1] for the project, which aims to build and open a station on the Sutton Park line.
The approval means that funding is now availa…

Who wants to build in your street this week

Mr Sales & Lettings, which will be converted into a Fat Twins burger bar. Credit: James Aldridge, Local Democracy Reporting ServiceCHANGING the floors above a would-be burger joint in Reading into flats has been confirmed in the latest planning news th…

How the smart motorways experiment failed

Rishi Sunak has announced that no new smart motorways will be built in the UK. The Telegraph has highlighted the safety concerns over the roads for years. Here is a timeline on the history of smart motorways and how The Telegraph helped to get the…

BES Atlassian Toolset Enables Agile Teams

MAXWELL AFB-GUNTER ANNEX, Ala. — The BES Atlassian Toolset (BAT) is a managed service that provides software that enables the Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that customers use to plan, track, and release DoD and Air Force software.
At its…

Sunak may ban smart motorways from being built over safety concerns

Rishi Sunak may ban new smart motorways from being built over safety concerns, as Tory MP asks the PM ‘what about the existing ones?’ and AA chief states the ‘experiment has failed’Tory MP Greg Smith said they’re ‘not safe’ and Britain needs the ‘hard …