Transport and Logistics Network
September 1984: West Midlands report recommends light rail network for England’s second-largest conurbation
Detailed proposals for an eventual ten-line network of light rail routes to serve the West Midlands were unveiled in Birmingham on June 20 by W…
Valencia Waste Management Ltd, formerly known as Viridor, has been fined £3million after Michael Atkin and Mark Wheatley died in separate incidents.
Michael, a 63-year-old from Wetherby in West Yorkshire, died in October 2019 at Valencia’s site in Ear…
Michael Atkin, who was 63 at the time, and Mark Wheatley, who was 31, died following incidents in 2019 and 2020 respectively at the two separate sites, both run by Viridor at the time.
In a statement on Friday (8 September), the HSE said it investigat…
A number of police officers were called to Sutton Coldfield[1] town centre after officers received reports of trouble at a shopping park. A police van and two police cars with around half a dozen police officers swooped on Station Street by The Station…
A police chase involving a ‘stolen’ lorry fully of illicit booze shutdown a major Midlands motorway as police looked to catch those inside. A heavy goods vehicle on cloned plates failed to stop northbound for officers from the Central Motorway Police G…