Transport and Logistics Network
The M6 on the border with Lancashire and Cumbria has been closed in a northbound direction as the emergency services tackle a heavy goods vehicle fire.
Cumbria Police says the busy motorway has been closed between junctions 35 and 36 by the blaze, with…
Cumbria Police were called to an incident on the A66 near North Stainmore, at 4.36 am as a lorry had overturned.
The man, in his fifties, was taken to James Cook hospital in Middlesbrough by ambulance, though the nature of his injuries is still unclear…
A stretch of the A66 between Penrith and Brough has been closed to traffic after a heavy goods vehicle overturned in the early hours of Wednesday morning, it has been reported.
According to the National Highways authority for the North East, traffic wa…
A66 crash between two lorries
In addition to the crash on the A19, the A66, which links Teesside and Cumbria, is closed in both directions between the A685 (Brough) and A6 (Penrith) due to a serious collision between two lorries.
A spokesperson for Hig…
The world-famous Coca-Cola Christmas truck still isn’t welcome in Cumbria, according to the councillor who banned the beverage wagon from the county five years ago.
Despite it’s 2022 tour seeing it visit the likes of Manchester and Leeds, the promotion…
Killington Lake in the Lake District, and Telford in Shropshire, have been named the best motorway service stations – for motorists travelling with their dogs this Christmas.
Oxford services on the M40, Reading services on the M4, and Tebay services on…
The Radford family have opened a pie shop in Morecambe after their business had a huge success online.
The new Radford’s Pie Company is located at 376 Heysham Road. To mark the official opening on Saturday (November 19), the eatery gave away free pies …
The government has failed to say how it will speed up a series of critical North East transport upgrades that it pledged would be “accelerated as fast as possible” – including the revamp of the Tyne Bridge and dualling of the A1.
A number of major infr…
A convoy of nuclear warheads was spotted travelling across the UK just days after Vladimir Putin issued a terrifying warning to the West.
Eagle-eyed motorists captured the moment the military vehicles were escorted by police on the M6 heading north.
In…
A tipper truck driver has denied a charge arising from the death of a five-year-old boy struck by his vehicle in a residential street almost two years ago, in Newcastle.Layton Darwood was seriously injured in the accident on Willow Avenue, Fenham, on M…