Multi-Temperature Supply Chain Specialists, Oakland Distribution Limited has added thirty new Renault Trucks T480 6×2 pusher Turbo Compound tractor units to its 57-strong fleet, including a flagship vehicle to celebrate its parent company, Oakland Inte…
Multi-temperature supply chain specialists Oakland Distribution Ltd has added 30 new Renault Trucks T480 6×2 pusher Turbo Compound tractor units to its 57-strong fleet – including a flagship vehicle to celebrate its parent company, Oakland Internationa…
A section of the M6 motorway is fully closed this morning after ‘reports of a person falling from a bridge’. The stretch of motorway has been closed between junction 27 (Standish) and junction 26 (Skelmersdale[1]) due to the incident that is being led …
Tributes have flooded for a dad who was killed after a horror crash on the M58.
Danny Aitchison, 46, from Liverpool, died following the crash on May 17[1], which involved two articulated lorries and two cars. Family man Danny, whose “kids were the worl…
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A family have paid an emotional tribute to a man who was killed in a collision on the motorway.
Danny Aitchison, 46, died following the collision on the M58 at Sk…
Floral tributes have been laid for a man killed in a crash on the M58.
The man died after the collision involving two cars and two lorries on the M58[1] on Friday last week. Emergency services closed the motorway in both directions between junction 3 n…
All traffic has been stopped on the M58 near Wigan after a major crash between a car and a lorry. Emergency services are on the scene of the collision on the eastbound carriageway between J5 for Skelmersdale and the M6 for Wigan.
Fire crews, police and…
Eight men are beginning jail sentences totalling more than 200 years after abducting and brutally murdering a former boxer.
Christopher Hughes’ mutilated body was discovered on a country road on the outskirts of Skelmersdale[1] by a dogwalker after he …
A lorry trailer full of Castore sportswear was stolen from a depot in Kirkby[1].
Merseyside Police[2] received a report that just after 10pm on Thursday, October 19, two men entered the Venus 110 depot on Hornhouse Lane and stole a trailer using a whit…
A dad’s life changed in an instant after he heroically tried to save a man from drowning.
James Pugh, from Skelmersdale, attempted to save 21-year-old Hamza Mansoor, from drowning at Crosby beach in 2021. Hamza, was swept out to sea and, as a keen and …
Two teenagers were arrested after a woman was slashed in the arm near to where Matthew Daulby was killed just weeks before.
Lancashire Constabulary[1] confirmed to the ECHO[2] that the force received reports that a woman had been slashed with a knife a…
Police investigating after a gun was fired in a west Hull street have charged a second man.
Residents reported hearing a gunshot[1] in River Grove, Gypsyville, on July 20. Officers were quickly sent to the scene.
Now, a 24-year-old man has been charged…
Chris Hayter Transport defied the economic downturn to deliver a rise in both revenue and pre-tax profits last year. The family firm, which is based in Witney, Oxfordshire, has depots in Witney, Skelmersdale and Heywood, Lancashire and has opera…
Police have issued an urgent request to drivers after a teenager was stabbed to death.
Dylan Bragger died following an incident on Digmoor Road, Skelmersdale[1] on Thursday, June 29 at around 9pm. Emergency services were called to the scene but despite…