Lancashire Police officers dealt with a crash on the M65 eastbound at Junction 14 in Colne, closing the eastbound motorway at junction 13.
Drivers were told to plan their route accordingly to avoid the fuel spillage in the area.
The incident occurred …
The M1 Junction 5 Roundabout at the Berrygrove Interchange is due to be closed overnight from March 3 to March 21 while the works take place.
Disruption is also likely in Beechen Grove, Watford, when a lane is set to be shut for ten days to enable a cr…
While railways are still used to make millions of journeys across the UK each day, the rail network has far fewer stations than it used to. Many towns lost their train services in the 1960s – and one town near the Cambridgeshire[1] border saw its numbe…
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College principals, senior SEND leaders and two WorldSkills UK gold medallists are among the recipients of the 2024 new year honours for services to further education and skills.
This year’s honours list[1] includes four CBEs, nine OB…
A viaduct in Northamptonshire has become the first on the HS2[1] project to have all its deck beams installed as work on the project continues to ramp up between London and the West Midlands.
The 163m long Highfurlong Brook Viaduct, near the village of…
The Highfurlong Brook Viaduct in Northamptonshire[1] has all its deck beams installed, becoming the first on the HS2[2] project to reach this stage.
The 163m-long viaduct is near the village of Aston le Walls, and is one of more than fifty major viaduc…
Oliver Stevens’ family feared he would never see, walk or talk again after the crash in West Marton on July 15 last year. Oliver, who was 21 at the time, suffered life threatening injuries when his friend’s car collided with a 40-tonne articulated Par…
The pledge follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s confirmation of the scrapping of the HS2 high-speed rail link from Birmingham to Manchester in his keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday.
Instead he promised to spend the £36 bi…
The proposed services at Iver Heath between junctions 15 and 16 has been recommended for planning permission by Buckinghamshire Council’s Conservative-majority Strategic Sites Committee, which voted in favour of the proposal by a majority of eight to t…
The Thompson Park Railway[1] at Burnley[2] in Lancashire[3] is holding its annual charity event next weekend, Saturday, 23 and Sunday, 24 September in aid of the Brain Tumour Charity.
All takings over the weekend as well as any donations that the railw…
Muath Dahdal, of Colne Road, Huddersfield, carried out a “sustained sex assault in silence” against a woman on a train to Sheffield in October 2022.A 24-year-old man sexually assaulted a woman on board a train heading to Sheffield in what police called…
A gang who organised dangerous people smuggling journeys between mainland Europe and parts of Essex have been jailed for a combined total of more than a decade. Essex Police’s marine unit managed to intercept the gang’s efforts to sneak people into the…
Timed for the school summer holidays, to reduce disruption, the closure allowed HS2 to safely bring in cranes to lift 11 huge segments into position over the road.
These were then strengthened with internal steel cabling to complete the span.
Once comp…