Trucker World
Although it is often depicted that mail carriers and dogs are sworn enemies, there are certainly exceptions to this rule. Many postmen have developed positive relationships with the dogs on their delivery routes. However, we do not want to diminish the…
Review by Gary Spiller for MPM
“Look into your mind’s eye,
See what you can see,
There’s hundreds of people,
Like you and me.”
Hawkwind – Hurry On Sundown (D.Brock)
With the final sundowning of winter we approach tomorrow’s spring equinox with hope re…
In January 2022, the HGV industry was around 100,000 drivers short of capacity. Now that number stands at closer to 60,000 according to Logistics UK.
Several factors have helped close the gap. Employers have improved working conditions, demand for driv…
MELBOURNE, March 22 (Reuters) – Rivet Mining Services (RMS), a provider of trucking and related services to iron ore and gold miners in Western Australia, has entered receivership following labour shortages and cost pressures, adviser FTI Consulting sa…
Steve Sinnott, Econ Engineering’s new UK sales manager
North Yorkshire-based gritter manufacturer Econ Engineering has promoted a new UK sales manager to oversee its national sales strategy and manage business development.
Steve Sinnott recently ce…
PREROLL: The World and Everything in It is made possible by listeners like me. Hi, my name is Michael Hamilton and I’m a 2015 World Journalism Institute graduate running a writing and editing company based in Dayton, Ohio. The deadline to apply to…
Thief Callum Watt has been banned from taking his bike to an Essex shopping centre – after using it to flee after stealing from a shop. The 21-year-old targeted the House of Fraser store at Lakeside four times between September 2022 and February 2023.
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Tributes have been paid to a former football club manager who died after being hit by a HGV at a busy junction in Bury.
Paddy McCafferty was tragically killed after a crash at the junction of Radcliffe New Road and Bury New Road in the Whitefield area …
Niels was first on the scene on the night of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974
“It was a scene of total carnage,” he later wrote. “Bodies all over the place which were covered with debris and rafters from the ceiling and the floor above. The wh…
Residents of a “unique” village on the edge of Cheltenham fear that a mobile phone mast could destroy its sense of calm. People in Swindon Village are fighting the proposal, put forward in a planning application to the borough council by CK Hutchison N…