“Last-minute getaway trips” could be disrupted due to wet and windy weather in the run-up to Christmas, the RAC has warned.
A number of yellow weather warnings for rain and wind are coming into force from Saturday 23 December until Christmas Day mornin…
Christmas getaway disruption is continuing with long queues for cross-Channel journeys, motorway closures and train cancellations.
The Port of Dover in Kent said it is taking about 90 minutes to process cars.
It attributed the delay to a surge in deman…
As the Telegraph & Argus reported earlier[1], emergency services were called to a three-vehicle collision on the eastbound stretch of the M62, close to junction 23, at 8.55pm yesterday.
A person was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Ano…
Network Rail[1] has said that it expects rail services in West Yorkshire[2] to return to normal on Monday after a collapsed wall caused a landslip in Dewsbury[3] yesterday (Wednesday 8 November).
Part of a retaining wall running alongside the railway c…
Just after 9am on September 6 1993, an out of control lorry carrying tonnes of stone collided with a car and a BT van on a steep hill in Sowerby Bridge.[1]
The 30-tonne runaway lorry and the BT van hit three women and a child on the pavement before cra…
Traffic congestion
The A646/A6033 Corridor Improvement Programme stretches from Todmorden[1] to Skircoat Moor and is being delivered in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
It aims to address long-standing issues with congestion, e…
In an effort to help combat anti-social behaviour, and following the success of playing classical music at other stations in Northern’s network, the tactic is to be repeated at four more stations in the North East – Nunthorpe[1], Seaton Carew[2], Stock…
The man who died in a Sowerby Bridge railway incident[1] has been named as 52-year-old Paul Roper.
On Friday police said a person had been found dead on a railway line not far from his home on Crestfield Drive, Sowerby Bridge[2], Halifax[3]. Officers w…