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The Toffees Under 21s made the trip down the M6 motorway on Friday evening to play their Aston Villa[1] counterparts at Bodymoor Heath, Birmingham. It was a chance to see how Paul Tait’s team would line up following the departures of regulars Sean McAl…
Mobile street food favourite The Travelling Taverna has opened its first-ever restaurant and takeaway. Its Greek Cypriot street food is a firm favourite outside North Staffordshire’s pubs and clubs.
Now it has this week opened its first restaurant and …
Disruption is currently being experienced on the railway between Warrington and Liverpool due to an incident at Widnes station.
Emergency services rushed to the scene at around 10.45am this morning following reports of a casualty on the tracks.
Sadly, …
A busy train route across Lincolnshire faces delays of around one hour due to a broken down lorry. The East Midlands Railway (EMR) service from Skegness[1] to Nottingham, calling at Sleaford and Grantham[2], is disrupted after a lorry broke down on Hub…
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The New Year is traditionally a time for new beginnings: turning over a new leaf, writing a new page, righting past wrongs. ‘We look backwards to go forwards’ as the coach proclaimed at a rugby match I attended in Portland Pris…
A Nottinghamshire village railway station is no longer the UK’s least-used after passenger numbers increased slightly.[1]
Elton and Orston station, near Bottesford, had 56 people starting or ending their journeys between April 2022 and March 2023.
This…
Elton and Orston station, one of the UK’s least used (Credit: Roger Geach)
By Jamie Waller, Local Democracy Reporter
A quiet Nottinghamshire railway station is no longer the UK’s least-used after passenger numbers increased slightly.
Elton and Orston…
The M1 was closed southbound due to an accident involving two lorries and a car.[1] The incident occurred around 10.30am this morning (Sunday, December 31), between junction 24 for East Midlands Airport and junction 25 for the A52 Brian Clough Way[2] a…
The man leading a project bringing tens of thousands of new jobs to the East Midlands says a “seamless transport network” is needed to make it a success. Improvements to the M1 and plans to extend Nottingham’s tram network are among the initiatives whi…
The problem with any road that feeds from a motorway into the centre of a large town or city, is that everyone seems determined to use it simultaneously… except for the locals who have got wise to the traffic jams, and instead spend their time gridl…