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Residents have described their Essex town losing their last banks as “horrendous”. Corringham used to have two banks and a post office, but will soon have nothing.
The town’s Barclays bank closed last year, and Lloyds will be closing this summer on Aug…
Frustrated neighbours who have been kept awake from a ‘humming noise’ have called for authorities to step in to stop a constant droning noise that can be heard across Hucknall.[1][2]
An online petition has called for ITP Aero[3] and Ashfield District C…
Amid economic uncertainty, tight capital markets, wary investors and consolidation in the nascent autonomous vehicle industry, Aurora Innovation is still motoring on towards its target of commercializing self-driving trucks by 2024, ticking off waypoin…
What’s going on?
On Monday, services sector union Verdi announced that workers in the rail and freight sector would be downing tools on April 26th. Wednesday’s strike is set to be the second round of disruption on trains in less than a week, following …
Drug dealers Mohammad Hussain and Rizwan Adatlat found themselves in police custody less than 20 minutes after they arrived in Buckinghamshire. The pair travelled from Luton to Aylesbury in a bid to sell heroin and cocaine.
Police say the two men trave…
Schneider-CPKC strike surprise deal on Mexico-US intermodal service
Schneider National has inked a multiyear partnership with CPKC on intermodal service between Mexico and the US Midwest, a move that will provide new options for shippers seeking a sing…
Shares in London-listed cash shell Pineapple Power [LON: PNPL] have been suspended as the company has now entered into non-binding heads of terms for the acquisition of Element 2. This is the UK’s leading hydrogen refuelling business which works closel…
On April 15, Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government announced that plans for new, dangerous “smart motorways will be cancelled in recognition of the current lack of public confidence felt by drivers and cost pressures.”
Smart motorways, introduced in 2…
The Government is facing a call from an MP to cancel a billion pound contract it has with Sodexo to run Salford’s troubled Forest Bank prison following an M.E.N. investigation into the jail.
The claims we have uncovered have resulted in calls from Salf…
Autonomous driving is a term we’re slowly becoming accustomed to, along with electric[1] and hybrid power, as the vehicles of the future take over the roads. We’re still a fair way off completely driverless cars, but the technology that makes driving …