The A12 southbound between J17 and J16 has been closed near Chelmsford due to flooding on the road.
Emergency services including Essex Police, are in attendance. Highways England has resources deployed to assist.
Road users are advised to expect disruption and to allow extra journey time.
Diversion route has been installed by Essex Police using local routes.
Detectives are appealing for information after a man was left with life-changing injuries following a serious road traffic collision in Pendle. Officers were...
Emergency crews have been scrambled to the tackle a fire onboard a Wightlink ferry this evening that broke out just after the vessel departed at 7pm. The fire...
England has recorded a further 823 new coronavirus deaths. Public health England released the daily total showing still very high numbers The total...
A Man has died after being assaulted in Newport in the early hours on the Isle of Wight The man found in St James’ Street, Newport just before 4am on Sunday...
A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a man who was found stabbed in Pinner. On Wednesday, 26 August at about 6.05pm police were...
A man has been attacked with a machete suffering a leg wound in a suspected homophobic attack in south-east London. Met police say they were called at 3.12pm...
ExxonMobil refinery has activated a safety procedure known as flaring following what is describing as “an interruption in operations”. Hundred of...
At approximately 7.40pm on 2 October 2020 the victim was in the Eel Brook Common area when he was approached by a group of teenagers who asked to borrow a...
All lines in the Portsmouth area will be closed all day throughout the Holiday weekend for maintenance and renewal work. The lines between Havant and Cosham...
Officers from Kent Police are working with Army Bomb Disposal officers after the discovery of two unexploded WW2 bombs were located in Kings Hill Kent...
Emergency services have rescued three people stranded in a van on the A281 at Henfield after they got stuck in floodwater from the River Arun which burst its...
At around 3.40pm on 2 April 2021 a pedestrian reported being robbed in Longport after being approached by two men driving a car. The male victim was...
A van that caught fire shortly before 4pm this afternoon between J5 and J6 has damaged the surface of the carriageway. There is now around 9 miles of traffic...
The two suspects — the woman performing the exorcism and the girl’s mother — appeared in court on Monday to hear charges over the girl’s death, which occurred...
The yellow and green Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has landed at Red Funnel’s ferry terminal in East Cowes this morning (Sunday). The paramedic and...
Twelve fire engines and around 80 firefighters, as well other specialist vehicles, are at the scene of a burst water main at the junction of Queens Drive and...
A former teacher who abused schoolgirls between 2007 and 2013 has today (Monday 29 July) been jailed for 12 years. Sean Jack Aldridge, who was a teacher at...
A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a woman was found in Deptford. Police were called to a flat in McMillan Street, SE8, shortly after...
On Wednesday, 25 April at around 1800hrs, detectives from the Met’s Violent Crime Taskforce stopped and searched a 17-year-old boy at Hoe Road, Newham and...
Benjamin Atkinson, 44 of Ambleside, Cumbria, has been sentenced to 250 hours of unpaid work and must pay fines of £865. On Friday, 18 October 2019 Atkinson...
Seven fire crews have been called to tackle a fire that has broken out at Albion Towers in Southampton this morning. Fire crews from St Mary’s, Eastleigh...
The collision happened at Grateley, to the east of the city and close to Andover. Wiltshire Police said they were responding to the incident along with...
A man who sexually abused a young girl in Eastbourne in the early 1990s has been convicted after a seven-day trial and sentenced to a total of 22 months...
Reading Berkshire Thursday 27th April 2017 A group of travellers have set up camp on Prospect Park in Reading [photoshelter-gallery...
