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A van driver from Staffordshire has been found guilty of killing a work colleague in a crash following a visit to a pub. Carl Sargeant went to a pub in Stone for a drink with fellow security staff workers, including Martyn Ball, after a shift on Bank H…
By MARK DUELL[1] Published: 16:23, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 17:18, 6 December 2024
Storm Darragh struck Britain today as Christmas events were cancelled, football games postponed and flights deemed at risk with 90mph winds on the w…
Here are the latest cases from the region’s courts:
NEWCASTLE: Drink-driver Bradley Woolridge has been banned from the roads for 12 months. The 21-year-old was stopped driving a Ford Transit after pulling into the Shell garage, on Talke Road, in Newcas…
A serious collision[1] involving a lorry took place on the A69[2] in Throckley[3] late on Thursday night at around 11.30pm.
The emergency services rushed to the scene and the road has now been shut for 12 hours. We have heard from the police and the am…
A report was received of the accident involving the female pedestrian and a van, in South Shields, at 11.35am.
It was reported that a green and white Mercedes van was travelling in a southern direction on Centenary Avenue when, for reasons yet to be es…
An inquest has opened into the death of a man who died in a crash[1] on a major Lincolnshire road. Lincolnshire Police[2] were called to the A17 near Leadenham on Friday, November 1 just after 2pm.
The incident involved a silver Seat Alhambra, being dr…
Twenty new ‘smart’ speed cameras are to be deployed on some of the busiest roads in Staffordshire. The state-of-the-art devices have already been installed on several A roads in Stoke-on-Trent where speeding has been a persistent issue.
The routes incl…
Hundreds of drivers have been caught speeding since new ‘smart’ AI cameras were installed on some of Stoke-on-Trent’s busiest roads.
The devices have been set up at strategic locations in Staffordshire to help make the road network safer on busy routes…
An elderly pedestrian remains in a critical condition after a collision in Newcastle on Monday.
At around 12pm yesterday, emergency services were called to the A189 Jesmond Dene Road[1] after reports of a collision close to the junction with Beatty Ave…
New ‘smart’ speed cameras equipped with the latest technology have caught out hundreds of drivers after being switched on this year. They have been placed in a number of locations in the Midlands as part of the latest effort to combat speeding on busy …