Ambulance crews waiting outside Gloucestershire Royal Hospital will be able to use a new Portakabin which has been installed “to alleviate pressure” on staff. The new “remote welfare facility” on Horton Road is in use already allowing paramedics to “pr…
At Safety & Health Expo 2023, Simon Turner, Campaign Manager Driving for Better Business gave the audience a – very safe – spin around the block of Occupational Road Risk.[1]
Simon is Chair of the Trustees at the Association for Road Risk Management a…
The operation was abandoned on Saturday after engineers were unable to use the crane to lift out the rusting steelwork of the existing structure.
They hired in a 130-tonne crane from Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd but were forced to abandon Saturday night’s …
The bridge over the railway illuminated as work to remove it was scheduled to take place but is now delayed (Image: Trevor Porter)
WORK to replace the road over rail bridge in Bradford on Avon faces further delays after engineers were unable to cra…
Cost-saving measures within a Stormont department may have particularly negative impacts on disabled and older people, an equality impact assessment has warned.
The Department for Infrastructure has previously said that streetlights could be turned of…
Hundreds of villages across Gloucestershire are at risk of being cut off next winter as they do not have a plan to deal with extreme weather. Gloucestershire County Councillors[1] are concerned that 80 per cent of all parish councils do not have a wint…
Those in receipt of tax credits in Northern Ireland will receive their Cost of Living Payment from today.
Over eight million households across the UK will receive the £301 payment from the government, with the roll out of payments having already starte…
A councillor says residents are pleased that a damaged bus stop has finally been replaced after a six-month wait.
Councillor for Netherton, Noordad Aziz, says there was a road traffic collision in which a vehicle collided with Woodlands bus stop in Cla…
New police drones are being trialled in an effort to try to combat poor standards among Britain’s road users.
The drones have been implemented by Devon and Cornwall Police, and are currently being trialled in response to 2022, which “was a terrible yea…
A family fun day being held over the Easter weekend has been cancelled, after organisers raised concerns about the weather and the safety of visitors. The group behind Funtopia[1] has had to cancel four events in the second week of April, including in …
Environmental campaigner Sarah Allen writes for the Journal.
I set up a Facebook group and invited the people I knew, hoping they would invite people they knew and it would grow and eventually include everyone. For I wanted (and still want) the solutio…
A Gloucestershire business is on track to exceed £100 million turnover for the first time in its history.
Creed Foodservice, based in Staverton, celebrated 50 years in business last year.
Over those 50 years, Creed has grown to become one of the UK’s l…
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 — US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that large-scale flight schedule disruptions at Southwest Airlines were no longer a weather-driven issue and showed a “system failure” within the company.
“We are past the point wher…
The US Transportation Department (USDOT) said late on Monday (Dec 26) it would examine the large number of Southwest Airlines cancelled and delayed flights in recent days to determine if they were in the airline’s control, calling them “unacceptable.”
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