Two men have been charged with firearms offences after a pistol and ammunition were allegedly discovered by officers during a motorway stop. Ricardo Thomas, 32, from Smethwick[1], and Akelle Charles, aged 32, from Wolverhampton, appeared at Birmingham …
There are a number of road closures in place across the North East this week, with drivers advised to plan their journeys accordingly.
Some roads are fully closed while others have lane closures in place from Monday, October 30 until Sunday, November 5…
A motorist was taken to hospital this morning (October 25) after yet another crash on a ‘dangerous’ section of the A46 where a young man recently lost his life. Emergency services rushed to Haselor Hill in Haselor, near Alcester, after a BMW and a lorr…
A lorry driver who seriously injured a little girl and two members of her family when he hit their car on the hard shoulder has been jailed. The youngster, now aged 10, from Stafford[1], has been left unable to walk or talk and will need a carer for th…
A trucker has been jailed for just two-and-a-half years over a motorway crash which left a girl of eight with devastating injuries. She was left unable to “think, talk or walk” and will need lifetime care, police said, after his lorry ploughed into her…
A HGV driver has left a girl needing a carer for the rest of her life after a horror smash on the M42. As a result of Dominic Nicholls’ actions, the girl will sadly be unable to think, talk or walk again and will have to use a wheelchair.
She and two m…
A university student caused a horror crash with an Uber driver and was then caught being driven to the airport by his dad. Riffat Hossen ploughed into the private hire as it was performing a three-point turn in Erdington[1] around 4.15am on May 6 this …
Change can be scary, so when Henley Investments proposed building the tallest tower in the UK outside London as part of a 3,200-home redevelopment of Regent Retail Park, more than a few eyebrows were raised.
Despite the huge changes being proposed to t…
Jack Graham, 18, who completed his maths GCSE at the age of eight, had a conditional offer to study mathematics at Oxford University.
He sat his maths A-Level in May but was downgraded from an A* to an A after the OCR mislaid one of his papers. This me…
A camera has been set up in a Leicestershire town which uses artificial intelligence to catch people littering. Charnwood Borough Council[1] has announced it is piloting new technology named LitterCam in Warwick Way, Loughborough, over the next 12 week…
An update on the progress of the Channel Tunnel by P. W. B. Semmens MA, C.Chem, FRSC, MBCS, MCIT from November 1990
The BR consultation drawing of the proposed high-speed rail link across Kent, currently being discussed. The 450-metre tunnel at Warren…
A leading Norfolk logistics firm has invested more than £5m into new premises in Swaffham, Norfolk, to diversify the firm’s services and meet the growing demand of the business.
Ge-Be Transport, a member of the Palletways network and a well-establishe…
Residents in the Birmingham suburb of Acocks Green were left alarmed last night after an incident sparked a huge police presence in a busy road. One picture, taken on Friday night, August 25, shows several police vehicles and an ambulance in and around…
Mobeen Tahir, Director, Macroeconomic Research & Tactical Solutions, WisdomTree
We view electric vehicles (EVs) as machines requiring electrical power from the grid. We know that a large percentage of an EV’s cost, weight, volume, and complexity, lie…