Transport and Logistics Network
A passenger was left with a bleed on the brain and a fractured skull after he was horrifically attacked on one of Birmingham’s busiest railway routes. The victim was punched in the face after a bust-up on the Cross City Line between Erdington[1] and Li…
A driver suffered injuries and had to be taken to hospital after a road rage incident near Sutton Coldfield[1]. The incident took place in a lay-by on the A38 at Bassetts Pole north of Sutton last Thursday, October 19 shortly after 5.30am.
The two cars…
Downing Street has called it the ‘recast’ of HS2[1]. The end of the line for high-speed rail to Manchester[2] was announced on Wednesday (October 4).
Rishi Sunak said his government now wants to make sure the multi-billion-pound scheme is part of a ‘bl…
Rishi Sunak said he will cancel the northern leg of HS2 and invest the money into regional connectivity instead.
The prime minister pledged to inject the £36 billion saved by not building HS2 phase 2a and 2b into more than a hundred transport schemes a…
The new Middlesbrough Development Corporation (MDC) has dispensed with the town’s in-house planning department and will spend £1mn a year on transferring the planning department role for its territory to Lichfields, according to Teesside Live[1].
It is…
As pressure grows on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to make an announcement about the future of the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 line, we take a look back at Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s failed £800,000 bid to secure a stop in the city on the h…
September 1984: West Midlands report recommends light rail network for England’s second-largest conurbation
Detailed proposals for an eventual ten-line network of light rail routes to serve the West Midlands were unveiled in Birmingham on June 20 by W…
Announcing the passing of a loved one in local news media is a long-standing tradition and we are proud of the trust placed in us to make these important announcements. Every notice published in our newspaper and news site also appears on funeral-notic…
A police chase involving a ‘stolen’ lorry fully of illicit booze shutdown a major Midlands motorway as police looked to catch those inside. A heavy goods vehicle on cloned plates failed to stop northbound for officers from the Central Motorway Police G…
Wincanton, a leading supply chain partner for UK business, has announced that 85% of its logistics vehicle fleet serving Screwfix now refuels with Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), in a bold sustainability initiative to eliminate carbon emissions.
Winc…