One lane of a busy roundabout remains coned off this afternoon after a crash. Sand has been put down on the carriageway and cobbles have been displaced on the roundabout linking Waterloo Road, Potteries Way and Hope Street, in Hanley. The temporary repair work means traffic travelling down Waterloo Road …
Read More »Farewell to ‘fantastic’ postie Dave after 42 years service
Caverswall villagers have said goodbye to their ‘popular’ postman after 42 years of service. A farewell party was held for Dave Weston, 63, at the Auctioneers Arms in Caverswall Thursday night. The postie said it’s been a ‘real privilege’ to work as Caverswall’s postman for the last 12 years and …
Read More »Driver, 19, seriously hurt in Royal Stoke as car crashes into house
A driver suffered serious leg injuries after a car crashed into a house in Shelton. Emergency services were called to the property on Cleveland Road at 6am on Tuesday (October 17). They discovered that a white Vauxhall Corsa had ‘collided with’ a house. The 19-year-old driver, who was travelling alone, …
Read More »Driver in Royal Stoke after crashing into wall
A driver has needed hospital treatment after crashing into a wall. Paramedics treated the casualty after being called to Main Road, in Betley, at 6.58pm last night. Staffordshire Police closed part of Main Road – near East Lawns – following the collision. StokeonTrentLive has approached the force for a statement …
Read More »Royal Mail delivery driver suspended after ‘fighting with angry customer over parcel’
Mark Walker, 38, says he threw two punches at a customer who, he claims, had kicked his van and tried to hit him following a row over a parcel in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent Delivery driver Mark Walker has been suspended after, he says, a customer attacked him and he fought back …
Read More »Postman suspended after ‘fighting in street with angry customer over parcel’
A Royal Mail delivery driver has been suspended after getting into a fight with a customer in the street following a row over a parcel. Mark Walker said he threw two punches in “self-defence” after coming under attack from an angry customer. The 38-year-old agency worker has now been suspended …
Read More »Postie suspended after fight breaks out in row over parcel
Royal Mail delivery driver Mark Walker has been suspended on no pay after a row over a parcel ended in a street fight with punches being thrown. The 38-year-old says he had left a parcel on the doorstep of a Longton property after failing to get an answer. But as …
Read More »Missing Staffordshire electrician found dead on beach near Butlins
Retired electrician John Binsley was found dead on a beach near Skegness – after his neighbours in a Staffordshire village had not seen him for ‘several months’. A report by medics following the 71-year-old’s death has found he had taken excessive amounts of paracetamol and codeine. Staffordshire Police detectives say …
Read More »Police investigate after delivery driver mows down Hanley postbox
Police are investigating after a Royal Mail postbox was mown down by a delivery driver in the city centre. The red pillar box – on Trinity Street, in Hanley – was struck by the delivery vehicle on Wednesday night. It was knocked completely out of the ground in the incident, …
Read More »Post boxes dug up and stolen from village near Burton
Post boxes have been dug out of the ground and stolen from a village near Burton. A postman on their round noticed two of the post boxes were missing and the Royal Mail’s Burton delivery office reported it to Staffordshire Police. The first was situated on the soft verge next …
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