Gretna

Gang slash curtains on 30 lorries at motorway service stations

Police are looking for the culprits who slashed the curtains of 30 lorries in just an hour and a half.
Officers say the incidents along the A74(M) on Friday morning followed a spate of attempted thefts across three service stations on the motorway.
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A74: Appeal after thieves target 30 lorries at service stations

A quantity of alcohol was taken from his lorry between 12am and 1am. The men then left in a lorry with a white cab and it is believe they headed south on the A74(M).
Following enquiries, it was established that 10 vehicles at Johnstonebridge and 20 at …

Gretna sheep lorry crash leaves man in hospital

A man is in hospital after a sheep lorry crash which has shut the A75 for more than 16 hours.The accident happened at about 17:30 on Wednesday near the junction with the B721 at Gretna.The lorry left the road and a 54-year-old man was taken to the Cumb…

Rishi Sunak speech: Scottish Tories demand HS2 money used by …

The A9 was meant to be dualled by 2025 – and now the Scottish Tories want money due to the Scottish Government linked to scrapping the HS2 extension to go towards “urgently” upgraded the road north of the border
By Alistair Grant
Published 5th Oct 202…

Fear and loathing in Cheshire’s M6 motorway services

Knutsford Services turns 60 this year. One of Britain’s first service stations, it once encapsulated a modern vision of Britain’s future, but, like high rise towers, shopping centres and the motorways themselves, they became symbols of the drudgery of …

Inspirational mum using her cancer diagnosis to help others

Claire McLean turned what could have been an awful situation into something positive. She is on a mission to modernise and improve HR and the perception of the industry by using her own personal experience of cancer and early-onset menopause.
Last week…

?5bn benefit of road dualling

DUALLING the region’s A77/A75 trunk roads would bring £5bn of “positive benefits” to the UK economy, according to a new report.
Those would range from reduced journey times and vehicle operating costs (£700 million), to combined CO2e savings of around …