Transport and Logistics Network
Residents in the Staffordshire town of Tamworth say MP Chris Pincher should quit his seat after being accused of groping two men on a night out. Overnight, Mr Pincher – a Conservative first elected here in 2010 – had quit as the government’s deputy chi…
Statement from the fire service
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service have released the following statement:
Firefighters remain in attendance at the scene of a vehicle fire on the M6 northbound between Hanchurch and Keele Services.Crews from Hanley, C…
Gypsy and traveller families have parked a number of caravans on a consecrated Derbyshire site set to become a burial ground. The site, in Derby Road, Doveridge, bordering the A50, had a fence with a padlock and a number of large concrete blocks in pla…
Digger giant JCB is taking on 200 new North Staffordshire workers to help ‘fuel record growth’. The Rocester-based company – which employs 8,000 staff – is looking for assembly line workers, fork lift truck drivers, machine operators, and welders. They…
Traffic chaos can be expected this afternoon as a lorry has become stuck underneath a Stoke-on-Trent bridge just before rush hour. City Road, in Fenton, is partially blocked after a the HGV became lodged.
The incident took place at around 4.30pm and is…
Staffordshire-based construction giants JCB is offering 200 new jobs in North Staffordshire as it needs workers to help “fuel record growth”. The company already employs more than 8,000 staff, but is looking for assembly line workers, forklift truck dr…
Sickening trophy hunting trips to shoot elephants, rhinos and lions in Africa were on sale at the UK’s first ever stalking show.
Nearly 90 exhibitors attended the two-day event. Among the Brits at the Staffordshire County Show cashing in on the bloodt…
Several inconsiderate drivers have been caught travelling in closed smart motorway lanes as police dealt with an overturned lorry. Emergency services were called to the northbound carriageway of the M6 at junction 15, in Stoke-on-Trent, at around 4pm o…
Police used a stinger to stop a suspected stolen car – which then ‘came to a stop’ on a North Staffordshire railway line. And residents living close to crossing on Caverswall Lane – on the outskirts of Blythe Bridge – say they were woken in the early h…
A man has been taken to hospital after a four-vehicle smash on a busy Fenton road. Emergency services descended on City Road following the collision outside Afford Rent-A-Car at around 11.30am today (June 22).
The crash involved a red Nissan Qashqai, a…