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Two killed in M11 motorway coach crash
A lorry driver and a passenger on a coach have been killed and several others injured in a crash on the southbound section of the M11 motorway.
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Motorway tolls ‘not a solution’ to traffic congestion
Private toll roads are not cost effective, do not help congestion in their immediate area, do not reduce journey times and give investors a poor return, a report has claimed.
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M25 falls silent: First-ever planned daytime closure
It’s the country’s busiest road. Of all UK motorway traffic, 15 per cent is on the M25 circling London. It became infamous for almost constant traffic jams. But today something more unusual was happening – the first ever planned daytime shutdown since it opened in 1986, for upgrading works. Passing through six counties, the M25…
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14-year-old girl and driver killed after school bus overturns on M53
A bus driver and a 14-year-old schoolgirl have died in a motorway crash involving a school coach near Hooton in Cheshire.
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Constance Marten: Father of missing woman begs her to go to police
The father of a woman missing with her sex offender partner and her newborn baby has begged her to go to the police.
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M62 shooting: inquest hears police officer leant out of car and shot Yassar Yaqub
An inquest jury has begun hearing details of a police surveillance operation which ended with the shooting of a suspect on the M62 in West Yorkshire 5 years ago.
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Twelve people arrested in ‘go-slow’ fuel protests across the UK
Twelve people have been arrested after a go-slow protest against rising fuel prices which disrupted traffic on motorways around the country.
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Hurricane Ida: Speaking to the victims as over a million face a month without power
Howling winds, driving rain and storm surges – Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana facing at least a month without power and in Mississippi a motorway has collapsed.
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FactCheck: footage appears to contradict Boris Johnson’s claim of only 170 lorries near Dover
A senior official from Kent County Council’s Highways department said there were “nearer 500” lorries involved in Operation Stack.
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Flooding causes disruption across south-east England
Flooding is causing severe travel disruption across south-east England just as we head into the Christmas week.
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Plan for new M4 relief road near Newport sparks climate debate
It will be the biggest infrastructure decision ever taken by the Welsh government – whether to build a new stretch of motorway to bypass a notoriously jam-prone section of the M4 near Newport.
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Preparing for a no-deal Brexit in Kent – will the customs scheme work?
The EU has said it has completed its planning for a no-deal Brexit and warned again that that scenario remains the most likely outcome.
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State funeral held in Genoa for bridge collapse victims
In Genoa, a state funeral has been held for 18 of the victims of the collapsed bridge. 42 people are now believed to have died when a section of a major motorway bridge collapsed last Tuesday. But some victims’ families have stayed away from today’s service, in protest at the government’s failure to keep the…
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Italy bridge collapse: 20 could still be missing
As many as twenty people could still be missing in the rubble of the collapsed motorway bridge in Genoa – which has already left 39 people dead. Hundreds of rescue workers are still searching for any survivors – as officials said it could be hard to verify how many more potential victims there could be.…
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Italy bridge collapse: search efforts continue
“It seemed like a scene from a film, it was the apocalypse” – the words of one man who survived the motorway bridge collapse in Genoa that left at least 39 people dead.