Transport and Logistics Network
Emergency works are underway to repair a gas leak under a busy town centre road. Engineers have been sent to St Mary’s Gate, in Rochdale, after after a leak was discovered on a pipeline around two metres underground.
Gas network Cadent reassured people…
Andy Burnham has set out his ‘red line’ as Greater Manchester goes into negotiations with the government over the revised Clean Air Zone plans. The Labour mayor said local leaders will not accept a charging Clean Air Zone, calling for cash incentives i…
A man has parked up and left vehicles covered in angry signs outside of a Land Rover Dealership, claiming the company has failed to honour a warranty.
Michael Cox left his Range Rover, along with a can, caravan and other vehicles outside of the Stratst…
This is the agonising moment a lorry driver completely misjudged a railway bridge after being spurred on by fellow motorists in Wigan.
Footage sent to the M.E.N, shows the driver attempting to take on the narrow stretch of road with a sign clearly labe…
A drink-driver who killed a University of Salford student after downing 10 pints has had his sentence slashed. David Turner drove an Audi into 19-year-old Gabriel Fields and then refused to co-operate with the police’s investigation.
Turner, who has a …
A man was left with a broken leg and stab wounds after his motorbike was ploughed into by a car, before the driver and passenger got out and attacked him and his pal with weapons on Tuesday evening (May 10). The incident broke out on Moston Lane at aro…
A “depraved” paedophile filmed himself sexually assaulting a baby. Gareth Andrew Davis, 43, was given a life sentence after his “despicable” crimes were uncovered.
Davis, of Ashridge Street in Runcorn, was arrested after the National Crime Agency (NCA)…
An off-road biker was left seriously injured after crashing into a signpost during a police chase. The 27-year-old man was pursued by officers after he refused to stop for them in Tyldesley, near Wigan, on 6 June 2021.
After attempting to mount a kerb,…
A lorry driver has told an inquest he could not see a colleague who was helping him to reverse an 18-ton truck into a depot moments before he suffered fatal crush injuries.
Sim Biri-Biri Plis was at the wheel of the refrigerated Mercedes truck when he …
The fossilised remains of Chile’s first complete ichthyosaur have been unearthed from a melting glacier deep in the Patagonia area of the South American country.
In an expedition led by The University of Magallanes (UMAG) in the Tyndall Glacier area of…