An estate agent, whose office window in Wellington was smashed by a lorry,has asked the council to ban heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) from the road.

An apprentice from Worcestershire has been granted his HGV licence at the age of eighteen.

A lorry driver has been arrested after a crash with a van in Selby that left the van driver seriously injured.

The family of a cyclist killed two years ago after being run over by a lorry is calling for improved European legislation to tackle cyclist deaths.

Eilidh Cairns was killed in February 2009 after being crushed under the wheels of a HGV as she cycled to work in Notting Hill, west London.

European Union authorities launched cartel raids on major truck manufacturers in Europe on Tuesday (18 January), including the industry's top two firms.

World number one Daimler and number two Volvo confirmed they were both being investigated.

.So too did Sweden's Scania and Germany's MAN, both allied to German auto giant Volkswagen, and Fiat Industrial, maker of Iveco trucks.

A project to widen two stretches of the UK's busiest motorway could have wasted £1bn of public money, MPs have said.

The Highways Agency gave poor cost estimates for the M25 scheme and did not look at possible cheaper alternatives, the public accounts committee found.

The MPs also questioned why it had taken nine years to sign a contract with a private company to do the work.

But the agency said the project was progressing on time and under budget.

Dorset County Council planned to start work on the A338 Bournemouth Spur Road in September but was awaiting funding following the Spending Review.

Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said the bid had been unsuccessful.

Ad hoc work will now take place over a number of years rather than the six months originally planned.

Both Dorset and Bournemouth councils will foot the bill, at a cost of about £1m a year.

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