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In our latest look back through the decades of Commercial Motor, we visit the post-war 1920s, when decisions had to be made ...
Refuse collection vehicle (RCV) specialist, Dennis Eagle, has revealed its new Olympus Midi model for the 12 to 16 tonne ...
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) — Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV’s “Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73. North died Sunday at his ...
A bin lorry driver who struck a pedestrian, trapping her under the wheel of his truck and leaving her needing six months of hospital treatment, had his jail sentence overturned on appeal.
A fire service has warned people of the dangers of not properly disposing of batteries after a bin lorry caught fire. The blaze happened on Ash Hill Crescent in Hatfield, Doncaster at about 10:10 ...
She’d hurt herself dragging four week’s worth of rubbish to the bin lorry. She’s not alone either, in the next ten minutes I met people with sight problems and arthritis in the same boat. Yet, it ...
Scores of Birmingham bin trucks were delayed from leaving depots in Birmingham this morning as all-out strike action continued following a 'major incident' being declared by Birmingham City Council.
Scores of Birmingham bin trucks were delayed from leaving depots in Birmingham this morning as all-out strike action continued following a 'major incident' being declared by Birmingham City Council.
Birmingham City Council has declared a major incident as an estimated 17,000 tonnes of waste remains uncollected around the city due to an ongoing bin strike. The declaration means the council ...
A Labour MP whose city is being plagued by bin strikes, rats and mounds of rubbish has come under fire for supporting a new airport in Kashmir. Tahir Ali, the MP for Birmingham Hall Green and ...
A man has been charged in connection with a large large quantity of herbal cannabis worth £425,000 during a search on a lorry in Co Antrim. Detectives from the PSNI’s Organised Crime Branch ...