Transport and Logistics Network
Good morning and welcome to our daily live traffic and travel blog – covering roads, rail, and public transport. Each morning, we cast our eyes over Surrey to ensure smooth journeys for our readers.
From the big main routes – the M25, M3, M23, A3 and A…
The Princess Royal continued her Australian tour by meeting with the families of two firefighters who died in the country’s devastating Black Summer bushfires. The days of heavy rain which had been lashing Sydney and the east coast abated to provide An…
The legendary Flying Scotsman locomotive will be back in the south-east one more time during 2022, running along a route near Surrey for five days at the end of August this year. It will be running non-stop return services on the 11-mile Bluebell Railw…
A new £37million medical centre and 100 per cent affordable housing scheme could be no higher than 12 storeys in Staines following pressure from Spelthorne councillors. Many councillors objected to the original 14-storey proposal and did not want to se…
Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) are developing a process to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air and then use dynamic catalysis to create methanol—a valuable chemical that, made this way, could be carbon-negative. Its value could o…
An uninsured flat-bed truck stopped by police was being driven by a man who had been driving for 50 years without a licence. The incident happened in Staffordshire on Monday- (April 4) and the man’s vehicle has been seized.
Staffordshire police said on…
If there is any player who can empathise with what Tiger Woods has been through as he tries to get fit for the Masters, Jose Maria Olazabal fits the bill.Olazabal first triumphed at Augusta National in 1994 but later that year was struck down by a debi…
3 April 2022, 14:40
The protester glued his hands to the microphone in the interview with Tom Swarbrick. Picture: LBC
An activist was questioned by police after staging a protest on air on LBC.
Just Stop Oil activist Nathan Mcgovern glued himself …
More than 200 people have been arrested as climate change activists enter a third day of protests at oil terminals.Warwickshire Police said the force has made 54 arrests for offences including criminal damage, obstructing the highway and public order i…
More than 80 activists have been arrested in Essex as climate change protesters continue to block oil terminals. Activists from Just Stop Oil said on Saturday they had blocked access to the Titan Truck Park and revealed a secret underground network of …