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Colin Longbottom, 63, has been jailed for killing Daniel Loft
13:25, 15 Feb 2026
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Daniel Loft
A lorry driver who killed a dad when he took his eyes off the road for ‘four seconds’ has been jailed.
Colin Longbottom was behind the wheel of a l…
A lorry driver has been jailed for more than four years after causing the death of a husband and father.
Daniel Loft — known as Danny — was killed when a lorry crashed into his flatbed truck, which had broken down on the A46 northbound near East Bridgf…
Daniel Loft, 37, of Bingham, Nottingham, died in hospital 18 days after the incident, which happened on the A46 northbound near East Bridgford on 12 December 2024.
Nottingham Crown Court heard that lorry driver Colin Longbottom had been using a built-i…
The A46 closed in both directions overnight on Friday, January 23.
The closure was in place both ways between the A52 Saxondale and the A606. It’s due to a ‘serious collision’ as emergency crews have been scrambled to the road, National Highways has co…
Some of the year’s court stories involving youths
04:00, 24 Dec 2025
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Bhim Kohli was attacked in a park near Leicester and died the next day(Image: PA Media)
Throughout 2025, there have been several crimes committed by teenagers in the c…
Three teenagers guilty of fatal stabbings were among the notorious criminals sent to jail in the UK in June.
Rashane Douglas, 19, stabbed three men killing two of them after an argument over a girl in a club. Yura Varybrus, 17, murdered another teenage…