A police swoop on England’s best loved motorway services smashed a multi-million pound drugs operation. Stephen Buckley and Scott Chadwick-Greer, from Thornton-Cleveleys[1], were stopped in September last year at Tebay services on the M6[2] in Cumbria….
A quiet North Wales farm at the centre of a massive heroin and cocaine operation had been monitored by police for months, detectives have said. Tirlas Goch farm, Flintshire[1], was at the centre of a £250m smuggling operation that flooded the UK with t…
On 15 February 2004, four men were killed as they worked on the West Coast Main Line when a faulty 16-tonne wagon broke free and sped down Shap Summit.Gary Tindall, 46, from Tebay, Chris Waters, 53, of Morecambe, Lancashire, Colin Buckley, 49, of Carnf…
1 January: Regulator Blames Hike On Rising Wholesale Prices
Today sees the scheduled increase in the price cap maintained by the energy market regulator, Ofgem. Average bills will rise by 5%, with a typical household on a dual fuel tariff paying in ar…
Office for Rail and Road (ORR) data looks at the number of people entering and exiting every train station in the country, including the nine stations for which data was collected in Flintshire.
Its figures show Liverpool Street in London overtook Wate…
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The Volvo EX30 is a small all-electric SUV/crossover that launched in the UK around the end of 2023, and arrived to consistent praise and acclaim from the British motoring media.
Already the winner of three separate ‘Car of the Year’ titles fro…
East Lancashire Railway[1] has adopted a battery-electric locomotive built in 1944 from Manchester[2]’s Science and Industry Museum.
The eighty-year-old loco was transported to Buckley Wells’ locomotive depot on 30 October to have its missing battery c…
A ‘revolting’ pervert with a pornography obsession performed a solo sex act in front of a young woman while travelling on a Megabus between Birmingham and Manchester. The student, who was travelling on her own for the first time, said she was traumatis…
A man who died in a crash on the A55 was a talented musician who previously played bass in metal band Cradle of Filth. Jon Kennedy, from Buckley[1], died in a single-vehicle crash[2] on the A55[3], near Broughton[4] last week.
The 46-year-old was drivi…
The change is part of a global initiative, with all subsidiary businesses aligning with their parent company, which announced its new global branding in September 2022.
“It is only our name and branding that is changing,” said works manager David Quick…
SAPPHIRE SMALL, 22, of Wye Crescent, Bettws, Newport must pay £169 in a fine, costs and a surcharge for speeding at 35mph in a 30mph zone on Newbridge Road, Pontllanfraith, Blackwood on March 2.
Her driving record was endorsed with three points.
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A senior police officer has warned of an “epidemic” of reckless drivers using apps like TikTok[1] and Facebook to live stream videos from behind the wheel.
Adrian Leisk, head of road safety for Devon and Cornwall Police, said there needed to be more ed…
Adil Iqbal pleaded guilty to killing Frankie, who was 17 weeks pregnant with her first daughter, Neeve, and causing serious injury to her nine-year-old son Thomas. Her four-year-old nephew, Tobias, was also badly hurt
Frankie Jules-Hough and her unbo…