Transport and Logistics Network
The additions to the borough council’s Davyfield Road depot will accommodate workers during the 16-month project to improve access to and from the M65’s Junction 5, near Guide.
This scheme, due to start imminently, will widen the motorways slip roads, …
XPO Logistics, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, has secured the contract to manage warehouse operations for Crown Paints – part of the international coatings giant Hempel A/S.
XPO Logistics…
An inquest has opened into the death of a pensioner who was killed after being struck by a lorry.
Emergency services were called to Bolton Road in Darwen[1] on the morning of Monday December 9. A 70-year-old man had been hit while crossing the road clo…
A pensioner was killed in a crash with a lorry in Darwen[1]. The 70-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene on the A666 Bolton Road, Lancashire[2] Police said.
Officers were called at 10.47am on Monday, December 9) to a report[3] of a road traffi…
Hyndburn Council’s deputy leader Cllr Noordad Aziz has tabled a motion to the authority’s full meeting on Thursday night urging the audit of the motorway’s accident record with a view to improving its precautions to prevent any repeat of the recent spa…
Blackburn[1] magistrates heard Liam Alan Dean also received a criminal record as a result of his involvement in the benefits scam.
Dean, 29, of Lower Hollin Bank Street, Blackburn, admitted to four charges of retaining a wrongful credit. He was given a…
Blackburn[1] Magistrates’ Court heard a man and a woman, both in their 60s, were killed when a Mercedes-Benz lorry driven by Christopher Kavanagh hit them head on.
The couple were travelling along the A59 at Sawley in a Chrysler car when the lorry cros…
Weather warnings for wind, rain and snow have been issued by the Met Office[1] as the country gets ready for the New Year.
Separate warnings for wind, wind and snow as well as wind and rain have all been issued for both Wednesday, December 27 and Thurs…
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released the data which is generated by reviewing passenger numbers in each train station through their entries and exits.
Blackburn[1] was found to be the most used station in the region, with 1,291,704 passengers…
FI Real Estate Management (FIREM), the firm behind the Botany Bay Business[1] Park development, is consulting on a proposed new strategic logistics hub at Junction 3 of the motorway to meet demand for new commercial and employment space within Chorley …