A woman has died following a crash on a Cambridgeshire A-road. Police and paramedics were called to the incident, which involved a cyclist and a lorry, on the A1123 (Huntingdon[1] Road) near Wyton shortly after 7pm on Wednesday, February 28.
The cyclis…
Monday 15 Jan 2024
East Coast Digital Programme improvements completed but further work will close rail line for a weekend and two working days in February
Region & Route:
Eastern[1]
| Eastern: East Coast[2]
Network Rail teams have completed two weeken…
Monday 15 Jan 2024
Engineers complete East Coast Digital Programme upgrades as further work planned for February
Region & Route:
Eastern[1]
| Eastern: East Coast[2]
Network Rail teams have completed two weekends of upgrade work as part of the billion-p…
The disaster, which took place on January 21, 1876, occurred after the ‘Special Scotch Express’ train collided with a coal train during a blizzard. A few minutes later, a second express train crashed into the wreckage.
13 passengers died in the disaste…
Dubbed ‘Operation Melon’ after its cargo, the first attempt to retrieve the lorry abandoned on the Welney Wash Road got under way on Monday. Recovery experts from Cambridgeshire specialists Manchetts were called in by the lorry’s owners, Armour Transpo…
An urgent ice warning has been issued as temperatures plummet in the wake of severe flooding across the UK.
Forecasters warned Brits would wake this morning to icy stretches of road, fog patches and frost. They also predict the temperatures will drop t…
By Iwan Stone[1] and Eirian Jane Prosser[2] Published: 10:03, 6 January 2024 | Updated: 17:45, 6 January 2024
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes and businesses have been wrecked as flood waters dre…
A man has been left in a critical condition after a crash in Cambridge[1] on Thursday (January 4). The crash on Huntingdon[2] Road near the junction with Storey’s Way involved a black Volkswagen Up and two pedestrians.
Emergency services attended the s…
The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for rain and wind across Cambridgeshire[1] over the coming days. A 28-hour warning for rain is in place between 5pm on Monday (New Year’s Day) and 9pm on Tuesday (January 2).
The wind warning is in plac…
A141 – Spittals Way, Huntingdon
There is slow traffic in both directions mostly westbound between Hartford and Stukeley Meadows of around 2.5 miles. Motorists are advised to allow extra time for their journeys.
A428 – Cambridge Road, St Neots
There are…
People have been urged to use an at-risk bus service or potentially face losing it as the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority[1] considers the future of the bus routes it helps to fund. The 29 bus service which runs between Hampton and P…
Cambridgeshire-based Hotel Chocolat has been bought by US confectionary giant Mars. The deal, announced earlier this week, is said to be worth around £534 million.
The luxury chocolatier, which has more than 100 shops across the UK, said the deal is pa…
Thameslink and Great Northern have issued a warning over upcoming disruption as essential improvement works are carried out. Passengers are being urged to consider travelling the day before Sunday, December 3, when key engineering work will severely im…
A drunk driver was “too intoxicated” for a breathalyser and had empty vodka bottles in his car. Cambridgeshire[1] Constabulary spotted Daniel Routh sitting in his black Lexus facing oncoming traffic on Edison Bell Way in Huntingdon[2], just after 2pm o…