Transport and Logistics Network
A pensioner has been left fighting for his life after a crash involving two cars and a cyclist in Burnley. The 83-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries.
The incident took place on Greenhead Lane, in Reedley, just before 2.45pm on Saturday (Au…
A Lancashire logistics firm has been successfully acquired by one of the largest privately-owned transport companies in the United Kingdom, Turners (Soham) Ltd (“Turners”), which operates from 32 sites across the UK.
MKT Logistics (“MKT”), which was ad…
Lancashire-based MKT Logistics has been acquired, for an undisclosed sum, by privately-owned Turners (Soham), which operates from 32 UK sites.
MKT provides haulage and pallet distribution services throughout the UK, with a fleet of almost 90 trucks.
It…
Organised by the North and Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, and referred to as “the one they all want to win”; the BIBAs have been putting businesses through their paces since the competition opened in January.
Over 498 applications were sub…
NewsLBV Hub Logistics Fagan & Whalley Blackburn Youth Zone Pendleside Hospice Corporate Challenge
Our May fundraising campaign returned, and this year we invited all F&W team members to dig out their walking boots, don their running shoes, g…
Date published: 09 May 2022
Photo: Lancashire Constabulary
HGV driver Robbie Ackers, 54, from Middleton
Tribute have been paid to a HGV driver from Middleton who was killed in a collision in Burnley on Friday (6 May).
Police were call…
An HGV driver who died in a crash has been named, with his family paying tribute to the loving father-of-two.Robbie Ackers, 54, died after the HGV he was driving left the road on Blackburn Road on Higher Shuttleworth in Burnley and partially overturned…
A driver of a heavy goods vehicle has tragically died after the vehicle he was driving left the road and partially overturned.The incident happened as the HGV was travelling towards Blackburn Road on Higher Shuttleworth in Burnley on May 6 (Friday) A P…
A sex fiend who laughed at the teenager he assaulted as she recounted her horrific ordeal in court and a gang who set up a ‘drugs factory’ – and sparked a mass evacuation in Stretford – all among the people jailed in Greater Manchester this month. Our …
As March rolls into April it would be fair to say that in reflecting on the past month, things have been a bit tough. Without trivialising the list of world and national events that are dominating the news cycle, it would be easy to feel slumped by it …