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Staffordshire-based construction giants JCB is offering 200 new jobs in North Staffordshire as it needs workers to help “fuel record growth”. The company already employs more than 8,000 staff, but is looking for assembly line workers, forklift truck dr…
Around three-quarters of people in Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands back a masterplan to improve the A50 and A500, according to a new survey. Midlands Connect says the nine schemes proposed for the key strategic route between Stoke-on-Trent an…
Motorists faced delays today after a lorry overturned on the A50 and shed its load. The accident happened along the A50 eastbound, near Uttoxeter, when the HGV was in collision with another vehicle.
Emergency services were called to the scene, with a l…
Despite hailing from the USA, Starbucks has now become an institution in the UK – serving up coffee, cakes, and a variety of snacks and sandwiches. It also has an ever-changing cast of seasonal drinks, so it’s pretty hard to get bored of it, and there’…
Midlands-based Tippers Tool Hire has recently taken delivery of a further two new Isuzu 7.5 tonne beavertail trucks that are being used for the delivery and collection of tools and plant, typically carrying items ranging from 0.9 tonne excavators right…
Fuel thieves stole 160 litres of diesel worth £300 from a lorry parked off the A50. The criminals struck after the driver of the white MAN truck pulled into a layby near the services at Uttoxeter.
Police have confirmed the trucker was not hurt in the i…
Author: Rebecca LomasPublished 1 hour ago
Police are appealing for information after around 160 litres of diesel was stolen from a lorry in Uttoxeter.
It happened some point between last Wednesday night and early on Thursday morning while the white t…
It was billed as being a new nationally important motorway that deliver drivers to Leicestershire’s doorstep, but nothing was built. Now, nearly 50 years on people are being reminded of the ‘ghostly’ M64.
Proposed back in the 1970s as an important 40-m…
A dumper truck and two other high-value pieces of construction equipment have been stolen from the site where Derby’s new Lidl store is currently being built.
The discount supermarket chain’s new branch on a key site just off the city’s inner ring road…
Plans for a huge new “urban park” in Swadlincote have been approved by councillors despite concerns over protected great crested newts.
South Derbyshire District Council is behind the project and submitted a planning application to its own planning dep…