Peterborough

Driver suffers injuries in early morning crash near Peterborough …

A badly damaged black, Vauxhall Corsa has been recovered this morning following a collision with a lorry.

Police ^[1] were called this morning to an incident heading towards Peterborough Services, on the A605 ^[2], just after Elton.

Cambridgeshire Police ^[3] said: “We are currently at the scene after we were called with reports of a collision involving a HGV ^[4] and a car today (31 May) at 6.48am on the A605. Ambulance attended.

A car and a lorry were in collision near Elton this morning.

” Following the collision, there were reports of an oil spillage and Highways have been contacted.

“The driver of the car sustained a slight injury.”

Police in Peterborough limit web chat hours to provide additional emergency 999 …

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Bungalow damaged after being ‘deliberately’ set on fire near …

Firefighters have confirmed that the fire which caused severe damage to a bungalow in Peterborough[1] was deliberate. The incident was first reported on Friday (May 26).
Crews from Stanground, Yaxley, Dogsthorpe and Huntingdon were called to the proper…

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95-kilometre Anglian Water pipeline through Peterborough moves …

A 95 kilometre pipeline passing through Peterborough could supply drinking water to areas where there are shortages, Anglian Water says. The steel pipeline would be part of a network extending from Grantham in Lincolnshire to Bexwell in Norfolk, delive…

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Peterborough arson sees children’s playground set on fire in Castor …

Arsonists targeted playground near Peterborough by setting a climbing frame on fire. Firefighters were called to the blaze on Allotment Lane, Castor, shortly before 1pm on Tuesday (May 30).
The fire was confirmed to have been started deliberately. Now …

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Man dies following lorry crash on A1 near Peterborough

A man has died following a single-vehicle collision on the A1.
Emergency services[1] were called to the Townsend Road junction for Wittering village on the northbound carriageway, at about 3.20pm on Sunday (May 28) and found an articulated HGV[2] had …

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More rail strike misery on the way for Leicestershire – Leicestershire …

Strike action means there will be two days with no East Midlands Railway trains running at all this week, with further days affected. Both Wednesday, May 31, and Saturday, June 3, will have no services running[1] from Leicester to either London or the …

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The abandoned Cambs train station that’s now been replaced by a …

Hundreds of railway stations have closed in Britain since the train network started spreading across the country in the 19th century. Cambridgeshire is no exception and lost many of its stations in the 1960s.
Many of those long lost stations only serve…

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Woman felt trapped after creep stared at her on Kettering train while …

A woman told police she had never felt so unsafe after a creep stared at her while performing a sex act on a train near Kettering.
The victim was travelling by rail from London St Pancras when Dean Benjamin, 41, entered the carriage and started his wa…

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JS Distribution in Holy Moly hummus contract deal

JS Davidson has dipped its toe in the hummus market by providing plant-based brand Holy Moly with an end-to-end fulfilment operation and delivering its new range into major supermarkets. The Peterborough operator is dispatching three new cold pr…

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Eurofighters fly low over county in noisy touch and go

People stopped what they were doing and looked skywards as a loud rumbling plane noise coincided with the school run in Gloucestershire on Tuesday. Eurofighters flew loops over Cheltenham and Gloucester shortly after 3pm on Tuesday before heading north…

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Peterborough awarded millions of pounds to create new cycle …

Peterborough[1] has been awarded millions of pounds to create new cycling routes in the city in a bid to get more people out of their cars and onto their bikes in the city.
The bid, made by the city council and combined authority to the government for…

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The Cambs town that used to have 3 train stations but now has none

Cambridge will be gaining its third train station with Cambridge South set to open in 2025. However, another place in Cambridgeshire has seen its number of stations dwindle from three to none, with the last one closing in 1968.
Wisbech[1] used to have …

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Locals get the chance to vote for name of new bridge planned for …

Residents are being asked for their views about a new multi-million-pound bridge that is planned to be built across the River Nene. The bridge would provide a link for pedestrians and cyclists from Fletton Quays to the Embankment in Peterborough[1].
Th…

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Car ploughs through A1 central reservation causing delays – recap

Both directions of the A1 in Cambridgshire[1] were “partially blocked” this afternoon (May 15) after a car careered into the central reservation. Traffic was delayed in Peterborough, between A6118, Old North Road (Wansford), and Townsend Road (Witterni…