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Two men who died in a crash on the M62 motorway were a Ryanair captain and senior first officer, police have said.
Matt Greenhalgh, 28, and Jamie Fernandes, 24, w…
Friday, 12 July 2024 19:20
Two Ryanair pilots have died in a lorry crash on the M62 motorway in Cheshire while on their way to the airport, police have said.
Matt Greenhalgh, 28, and Jamie Fernandes, 24, were travelling to Liverpool John Lennon Airpo…
Peter Gibbons, from Bury, was behind the wheel of a heavy goods vehicle and drove in a dangerous manner, colliding with two other vehicles.
The 41-year-old was subsequently charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving and fail to comply wit…
A former karate champion, members of a drug trafficking “trade society” and a man who killed his wife then went to Costa Coffee were among the Merseyside criminals jailed this month.
Also locked up were a mum and son whose XL bully sunk its teeth into …
A 17-acre industrial site within the Liverpool City Region Freeport zone is on the market with a price tag of £8m.
Agents at Legat Owen are marketing the site off Ditton Road in Widnes which comprises 280,000 sq ft of space across 15 buildings. The big…
A man aged in his 40s has tragically died after a crash on the M58 motorway.
The smash happened on the M58 westbound[1], between the M6 Orrell Interchange near Wigan[2] and junction three for St Helens. at around 12.53pm yesterday (Friday, May 17). A s…
Jack Case was described by a Crown Court judge as “bright enough to know what he was getting into”.
The 24-year-old, of St Helens Road, Rainford, was travelling in a car with three other passengers along the M62 in Warrington when the vehicle was stopp…
Last week, a driver told of the terror he felt after, he said, his brakes failed on the motorway.[1]
The incident was widely reported by media outlets, with two lanes shut on the motorway while police escorted the driver just after 2.15pm on Wednesday,…
The approval of a ‘reserved matters’ application for the first phase of the Parkside Colliery redevelopment project in Newton-le-Willows has been welcomed by the Chairman of Parkside Regeneration, the joint venture company overseeing the initiative.The…
A £65m speculative logistics development within Liverpool City Region Freeport could lead to the creation of up to 500 jobs. Tony McDonough reports
CGI of the £65m XDock logistics scheme in Widnes
A new 550,000 sq ft logistics complex within Liverpool…
We will have to wait and see whether the council’s ambitious plans come to fruition, although one thing is certain – if the new station is built it will not be designed to serve ice-skaters as the original one had been!
That station had closed in 1917 …
A York councillor has said Network Rail’s inaction on graffiti stokes further vandalism.
Coun Ashley Mason said graffiti on Network Rail-owned property in York[1] had not been removed quickly enough, which encouraged more vandalism.
He claimed that de…
Main image: Cllr Ashley Mason with graffiti at the St Helens Road railway bridge. Left, top to bottom: graffiti at Hob Moor underpass; a community noticeboard; and Thanet Road bus shelter (Image: Supplied)CITY councillors in Dringhouses and Woodthorpe …