Fire crews spent three hours battling a lorry fire on the A66 this morning. The lorry went up in flames shortly after 6.30am today (Friday, November 1) near the Thorpe Farm Centre, towards Greta ...

A campaign group has lost a bid to bring a High Court legal challenge over the Government’s approval of a plan to dual a road in the north of England. Transport Action Network (Tan) asked the ...

Credit: ITV Border. A transport campaign group has lost its legal bid to challenge government plans to upgrade the A66. The A66, which connects Redcar with Workington, currently has around 18 ...

The development consent order encompasses several schemes to dual around 30km of single-carriageway sections of the A66 between junction 40 of the M6 motorway at Penrith, Cumbria, and junction 53 ...

Cumbria Police said the collision occurred on the A66 near the turn off for Mungrisdale village near Penrith at 13:30 BST on Saturday and involved a red Skoda and an orange Triumph motorcycle.

Police closed the A66 between the junctions with the A67 at Morton Park and the A167 Grange Road (known locally as Reg Vardy Roundabout) following the crash just after midnight on Sunday (October 7).

David Aitchison, of Carlin How, will be sentenced later this month at Teesside Crown Court The 41-year-old was told the offence puts him in breach of a crown court suspended sentence and therefore ...

The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project was first proposed in 2016 The plan to widen a major road running across the north of England, first proposed in 2016, has been approved by the transport ...

A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash with a car, police have said. Cumbria Police said the collision occurred on the A66 near the turn off for Mungrisdale village near Penrith at 13:30 BST on ...

The abnormal load will pass through the M62 Rochdale M6 Tebay (via M66 - A56 - M65 - M61) on November, 2 and through the M6 Tebay A595 Seascale (Via A66) on November, 3. National Highways have ...

The development consent order encompasses several schemes to dual single-carriageway sections of the A66 between junction 40 of the M6 motorway at Penrith, Cumbria, and junction 53 of the A1(M ...

As luck would have it, steel “hardware cloth” with mesh sizes of 1/2″ and 1/4″ is widely available. On paper either should work, but I did end up going with the 1/4″ to be safe.