SCOTLAND has been battered by stormy winds of up to 165mph which have closed schools, disrupted transport and prompted police warnings for drivers to stay off the roads.

Police in the county are leading the search for an international drugs ring after seizing herbal cannabis worth £7m from a lorry in the Corby area.

CANNABIS resin worth an estimated £3 million was seized at Ramsgate port yesterday (Thursday). Officers stopped an Irish-registered lorry carrying approximately one tonne of the class B drug.

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.

A footbridge weighing about 10.5 tonnes has been stolen from the back of a trailer in North Yorkshire.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after being flung from a truck cab in a motorway crash in North Lanarkshire.

A tough job meets a tough truck in the deep north west of Scotland as Loch Clash Fish put another Volvo on the road, an FH-540 6x2 tractor unit.

A £1.1m scheme to resurface a one-and-a-half mile stretch of the A52 has begun.

The work by the Highways Agency is being carried out at Elton-on-the-Hill on the Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire border.

Thieves have made off with 337 pairs of military boots destined for British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

The delivery - valued at £31,000 - was stolen from a lorry parked in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Thieves slashed the side curtain of the lorry overnight between 6 and 7 February. The lorry was transporting a consignment of Nato desert boots.

AN HGV driver has appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a collision in which two men died on the M6 near Sandbach.