East Lancashire Railway[1] has adopted a battery-electric locomotive built in 1944 from Manchester[2]’s Science and Industry Museum.
The eighty-year-old loco was transported to Buckley Wells’ locomotive depot on 30 October to have its missing battery c…
How the main entrance to Old Oak Common will look. Image courtesy HS2
It’s been a tricky year or two for the High Speed 2 (HS2) project. Government cuts have seen the rail route scaled back to a single phase between London and Birmingham. The project’…
Plans to create a second gypsy site in a Somerset village have been approved.
The green light has been given to a new traveller site at Pitney, near Langport. Somerset Council has approved an application on behalf of Dale Smith seeking to build a new g…
A man has tragically died in a Somerset house fire, police have confirmed.[1]
Several fire crews, paramedics and police all rushed to the incident in Alhampton, near Castle Cary, yesterday (Monday, November 6). A fire engine became stuck in a ditch on …
Communities in Radnorshire and Breconshire served by the picturesque Heart of Wales Line will be better connected thanks to the appointment of Owen Griffkin as the new community rail development officer for the Heart of Wales Line Community Rail Partne…
An inquest has opened into the death of a “beloved” dad who was killed alongside his two young children in a horror crash. Walsall chef Alomgir Hussain died when his car collided with a lorry on the A5 in Leicestershire.
Mr Hussain, who was said to hav…
A group of local residents blocked cars on a road in south London as part of a protest against the area becoming a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN).Valley Road is part of a group of streets that make up Lambeth Council’s Streatham Wells Low Traffic Neig…
Rail company bosses are expecting “severe disruption” to its services tomorrow (November 2) as Storm Ciaran hits the county. Train passengers are also being “strongly” advised to not travel on ‘mainline’ routes before at least 9am.
Southeastern said: “…
Cotswolds[1] villagers are up in arms over “ludicrous” plans to replace parking bays on a narrow street with spaces for coaches to drop off and pick up around “250,000 tourists” each year.
The privately owned Hacklings’ car park in Station Road in Bour…
One in seven (14%) drivers are speeding without even realising it, according to new research from Halfords and the Director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff[1] University. The new analysis for Tyre Safety Month investigated the…
The upmarket shoe and handbag shop Russell & Bromley in Tunbridge Wells[1] is to close. The large store on Mount Pleasant has been there for many years, and is on the road which links the top of town with the bustling High Street.
It told KentLive[2] i…
Eight BBC local radio stations have lost over a quarter of listeners in the last two years, with BBC Radio Kent seeing the biggest decline, according to the latest audience figures. BBC local radio reached over 7.3 million people in the three months to…
Thanet[1] has seen the biggest boom in house prices of anywhere in Kent[2] since the show Location, Location, Location first aired 40 series ago. The popular Channel 4 property show returned to our screens on Wednesday (October 25) for its 40th series….
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council[1] bosses have put one of its town centre car parks along with offices up for sale. The Mount Pleasant Avenue Car Park in Tunbridge Wells[2] is being marketed, and as a separate property, the beautiful Grade II listed of…