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Sausage manufacturer James T Blakeman and Co. Ltd has taken delivery of three Volvo FH Globetrotter XL trucks having taken the decision to switch its entire distribution fleet to the Swedish manufacturer.
The 6×2 tractor units join three existing FHs t…
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20 February 2022
As more electric cars take to UK roads, attention is turning to their safety, in particular fire safety.
No matter that petrol and diesel cars can catch fire and many of them do (remember the spate of…
Emergency services at the scene in Sunderland
One of two men injured in a suspected gas explosion is now in a critical but stable condition, police have said.
The Northumbria force confirmed the man’s condition had deteriorated overnight follow…
Two people have been taken to hospital after a suspected gas explosion at a house in Sunderland.Photos of severe damage at the property in Roker show its roof and part of its front missing, with bricks and debris in the street outside.
A cordon is in p…
A truck driver has admitted causing the death of a well respected nurse after smashing into the back of her stationary car while getting a can of cola out of his bag.
Tanya Forrest, 51, was driving her Ford Ka along the A189 Spine Road near Cramlington…
Trucker Kenneth Wilson crashed into Tanya Forrest’s Ford Ka on the A189 Spine Road in 2019.
Trucker Kenneth Wilson crashed into Tanya Forrest’s Ford Ka on the A189 Spine Road near Cramlington, Northumberland, on November 2 2019.
Paramedics and …
A 12-year-old boy who died in an horrific crash this morning was driving a relative’s car while his family slept.
The boy, who is just weeks away from his 13th birthday, was the only occupant of the Nissan Qashqai when it collided with a lorry at aroun…
NORTH East police officers have welcomed the conviction of an “evil and twisted” offender who kept a man as a slave in a metal shed with no toilet or wash facilities.James McCann kept a Hungarian national, who spoke very limited English, in disgraceful…
LEADING Susan Roper’s funeral procession on Wednesday was a veteran scrap metal truck loaded with speedway bikes.This neatly summed up the life of Mrs Roper, matriarch of the family firm Moss Bay Metals and keen follower of speedway.
Mrs Roper was the …
Firefighters descended on a North Staffordshire road after a recycling truck caught fire following an explosion.
The blaze broke out on Quarry Bank, in Silverdale, at around 7.45am yesterday (February 3).
The road was blocked by the police and Stafford…