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Firefighters were called to a flat fire in a Cambridgeshire village. Fire crews from Ely and Cambridge, as well as Newmarket in Suffolk, were called to Burling Way, Burwell.
The blaze was in a single flat in a two-storey block. The fire, which firefigh…
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Quantities of carbon emitted by freight vehicles could be cut significantly thanks to breakthroughs at the EPSRC-funded Centre for Sustainable Road Freight.
Established in 2012, this collaboration between the University of Cambridge, Heriot-Watt Unive…
A quick survey of attendees at the Fleet Safety Council – Central Chapter’s three-part seminar series on collision preparation and response showed many in the room had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a fatal crash. But when asked how many of…
Drones will be used to deliver packages on remote Scottish islands – that, at least, is among the visions intimated by nine new freight projects which have been awarded £1.2 million in UK government funding.
The first winners of the Freight Inno…
A Suffolk road is closed in both directions following a ‘serious’ crash on Saturday evening (April 15). Police, firefighters and paramedics are at the scene on the B1106 between the A11 Elveden Bypass and Green Road, between Brandon and Elveden and nea…
A traffic diversion route is in place as the A1 remains closed following a police incident in Cambridgeshire today (Saturday, April 15). Both the northbound and southbound stretches of the dual carriageway have been shut since around 8.15am.
Emergency …
A traffic diversion is in place following a crash on a Cambridgeshire A-road on Friday night (April 14). The westbound carriageway of the A1307 is shut near Godmanchester.
Emergency services are at the scene of the incident, which was first reported at…
A woman has been seriously injured after being hit by a van on the A14. Police were called to the westbound carriageway near junction 37 for the A11 at about 5pm yesterday (April 13) to reports of a collision between a pedestrian and a vehicle.
The ped…
A woman called dialled 999 to tell police that her bins had not been emptied. Police have released a recording of the call to the emergency number – which saw her tell the operator her bin hadn’t been emptied for two weeks.
After being told by an opera…