Drivers are facing a series of diversions on a major stretch of a motorway as dates are released for overnight closures.National Highways said most of its M6 Warrington to Wigan upgrade was set to be completed over the next month, starting later and en…
Part of the M6 motorway is closed this morning due to a ‘serious incident’.
The closure has been put in place on the northbound carriageway between junction 21 near Warrington and junction 21A for the M62 Croft Interchange. The road has been closed sin…
Drivers in Cheshire are being warned of motorway delays today (April 7) due to a closure on the M53. Motorists are being advised to allow more time for their journeys as the M53 is closed southbound between junction 9 ( Ellesmere Port[1] ) and J11 (Sto…
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,…
Jaguar Land Rover[1] has launched a safety probe after a driver’s brakes reportedly failed on a major motorway. The driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after an incident on the M62, near Warrington, on March 6.
The 31-year-old was dri…
As reported earlier today, a van crashed into a barrier after drug packages were thrown out of the window in a police chase on the motorway.
Officers from Cheshire Police’s Roads and Crime Unit have arrested a man and seized a large quantity of illegal…
A man collapsed into a puddle as his friends realised what was wrong.
Ray Hughes, 78, met up with five of his friends at his Windes[1] home on a rainy September morning last year. Ray, along with Mike Baker, Bernie Smith, Alf Hagar, Cliff Walker and Gr…
WARRINGTON-based commercial property company Langtree has reported ‘a very positive year’, despite political and economic turbulence although it is not expecting stability to return to the markets before the general election.
In its annual report for t…
The motorway is partially blocked eastbound due to an accident from junction 7 of the A57 Warrington Road (Rainhill Stoops) to junction 8 of the A5281 Burtonwood Road (Warrington West / Burtonwood).
National Highways traffic officers from the outstatio…
John O’Hanlon, 30, sifts through faecal samples in a lab at Chester[1] Zoo, the only one of its kind in any European zoo. It’s not the most glamorous job, he and his colleagues tell me, especially where carnivore waste is concerned, but John is working…
Disruption is currently being experienced on the railway between Warrington and Liverpool due to an incident at Widnes station.
Emergency services rushed to the scene at around 10.45am this morning following reports of a casualty on the tracks.
Sadly, …
Manchester rail commuters are likely to face delays or cancellations on train services today after a person sadly died after being found on train tracks.
Emergency services were called to Widnes railways station, at around 10.45am on Friday, January 5….
A man has been jailed for drugs supply offences after his vehicle was stopped in Ellesmere Port[1].
Jack Pritchard was sentenced to 10 months in prison at Chester Crown Court[2] on Thursday, December 21.
The 27-year-old, of Scotton Avenue, Little Sutto…