‘We heard banging from the cattle’: Livestock lorry overturns on roundabout (Image: Daily Echo)
A LORRY carrying livestock overturned on a busy roundabout along the A35 yesterday evening.
A number of cows had to be rescued from the trailer of a lor…
Emergency crews raced to the scene at the Bakers Arms Roundabout just after 6pm yesterday.
Road closures were put in place before the trapped animals could be freed from the overturned trailer.
The roundabout and a section of road heading towards Pool…
There are a raft of new roadworks starting this week in Plymouth. The schemes will impact on several roads in the city and are ones motorists need to be aware of before setting out on their journeys.
On Milehouse Road, for the next ten days, there will…
A weather warning for wind has been issued across areas of the South West including Dorset and Wiltshire. According to the Met Office, strong winds may cause disruption tomorrow (July 14) and Saturday (July 15).
Tomorrow’s warning is in place from 7am …
A whole raft of new roadworks are set to start this week in Plymouth. They are in addition to the existing schemes already ongoing in the city.
For the next two weeks, there will traffic lights in place on Eggbuckland Road, 24 hours a day. This is so f…
Man due in court in connection with fatal crash involving elderly pedestrian
A MAN is due to appear in court[1] in connection with a fatal crash involving an elderly pedestrian last year.
The crash involving a blue Vauxhall Zafira and a pedestrian …
Police and Fire services are at the scene where a lorry has been seen well alight, with a large smoke cloud coming from the vehicle.
The lorry driver is being treated by the ambulance service for suspected smoke inhalation.
The A352 Wareham Road is par…
There is a huge graffiti spread over the walls of the railway tunnel leading into Poole Park in Whitecliff Road.
After several reportings by myself and others, including ward councillors, it seems that BCP staff are helpless and it can only be removed …
A number of major roads in Winterton that are riddled with potholes and uneven surfaces will see a series of closures this summer while repair works take place.
Four roads – Winteringham Road, North Street, West Street and Northlands Road South – will …
© Provided by Metro Jessica Poole (left) and Josh Alexander (right) were killed in a car crash (Picture: Facebook)A young couple have tragically died in a car crash just five months before they were set to become parents for the first time.
Josh Alex…
Horror as young couple expecting a baby boy are killed in car crash with lorry: Family pay tribute to much-loved couple as police launch probeJosh Alexander, 21, and pregnant Jessica Poole 18, were killed in Kent car crashBy Chris Matthews[1] Publish…
A cruise ship passenger was airlifted to hospital 800 miles from home against his wishes when he pulled a muscle. Stephen Cassidy, 60, was airlifted off a cruise he was enjoying with his wife, Carol, 61, after the ship’s doctor suspected he had an infe…
Nine people from a Birmingham drugs gang peddling cocaine and heroin were arrested in a series of dawn raids by 240 officers this morning, Tuesday, May 23. Police estimate the illicit enterprise is worth around £100,000-per-week.
West Midlands Police’s…
Stephen Tompkinson’s partner wrote ‘I hope there’s a heaven, I really need there to be one’ in tribute to mother and stepfather killed in crash by sex-obsessed trucker – a family tragedy only revealed by the actor on live TV todayBy Arthur Parashar[1] …