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The North East Automotive Alliance V-Cal project has been given £8m to trial the use of automated, zero-emission HGVs carrying car parts on both private land and public roads, where they will need to navigate traffic lights, roundabouts, security gates…
The UK government has announced that it is awarding a total of £42 million of funding to develop autonomous road transport. The grants are part of the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Connected and Automated Mobility programme and will be m…
Emergency services rushed to meet a bus service after the vehicle burst into flames on Monday (January 30) morning. (Image: LISA DIXON/FACEBOOK)
Emergency services rushed to meet a bus service after the vehicle burst into flames on Monday (Jan…
UK battery start-up Britishvolt has been placed into administration, with the majority of its 232 staff made redundant with immediate effect.
The company had planned to build a factory to make electric car batteries in Blyth, Northumberland and was onc…
Britishvolt, a battery technology startup that was planning to build the UK’s largest electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility in Northumberland, has announced that it is has gone into administration, resulting in the majority of the company’s …
THE destruction of farmland and countryside caused by a Heathrow Airport fuel pipeline would ‘make HS2 look like a picnic in the park’, an angry farmer has claimed.
Ex-Royal Borough mayor Colin Rayner has vented his frustration after fuel company Esso …
2022 came to a close with a huge piece of long-awaited news for the North East that is set to have an enormous impact on our region for decades to come.
Confirmation last week that a £4.2bn devolution deal has at last been agreed between seven local co…
Paramedics, call handlers and support staff will go on strike on Wednesday.
Paramedics, call handlers and other staff who work for North East Ambulance Service are due to strike on Wednesday December 21. Two unions, GMB and Unite, will strike for 24 ho…
The MGL team (Image: Press release)One of the region’s largest privately-owned businesses is overcoming post pandemic challenges by championing community-focused constructionThanks to a record order book across all divisions MGL Group has seen an incre…
A woman’s body was found inside a burned out car in a horrific discovery near Newcastle.
Shortly before 7pm on Sunday, December 11, Northumbria Police received a report of a vehicle on fire close to Matfen Brewery, Maften, near Newcastle.
Emergency ser…