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Three men wounded in Sidwell shooting By Riaan Marais - 20 May 2021 SHOOTING PROBED: Three men were wounded in a shooting outside a block of flats in Sidwell on Wednesday evening. Image: 123RF/ POP NUKOONRAT Algoa Park police are investigating the attempted murder of three men after a shooting at a block of flats in Sidwell on Wednesday evening. According to police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg, the shooting occurred at about 6.50pm while the th...

Humber Bridge live updates as police deal with incident The northbound carriageway is closed Police are dealing with an "incident" on the Humber Bridge this evening. The northbound carriageway is currently closed with officers are at the scene, according to one motorist. Bridge staff are also attending the incident. First reported around 6.45pm on Friday, it follows a day of traffic delays across the city. "Heavy traffic" was once again reported on all the usual routes as a result of the Spring...

A HUGE development of thousands of homes will bring a new bypass to Southend and Rochford, furious campaigners believe. The new neighbourhood of 7,254 homes has been mooted for greenbelt land between the two towns, with fears the long talked about bypass would have to be included. The route, which could take drivers from Shoebury, through Rochford and past Maldon, has been spoken of in Southend for years. This comes as the Green Party launched a campaign and petition against the develop...

A HUGE development of thousands of homes will bring a new bypass to Southend and Rochford, furious campaigners believe. The new neighbourhood of 7,254 homes has been mooted for greenbelt land between the two towns, with fears the long talked about bypass would have to be included. The route, which could take drivers from Shoebury, through Rochford and past Maldon, has been spoken of in Southend for years. This comes as the Green Party launched a campaign and petition against the develop...

WOMEN have been cleared of attacking a man in Southend. The trial of Carla Dowling, 45, of Sutton Road, Southend and Lorraine Perry, formerly known as Moore, 30, of Appleford Court, Basildon concluded after it was alleged they attacked a man on a road. The women denied attacking the man - Perry’s former partner – at a set of traffic lights in Southend and damaging his car in the same incident on March 20, 2019. The court heard that the women had stopped the man driving off, before s...

Published: 3:42 PM May 6, 2021    Arsonists set fire to tyres in Sutton Road, Wisbech, just over a week since they last struck in the area. - Credit: Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service Arsonists set fire to tyres in Wisbech, just over a week since firefighters were called to the same area.  Crews were called to Sutton Road to what a fire service spokesperson described as “two well-developed fires”.  A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: “At 11.43pm on Wed...

The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) will be closing all of the southbound lanes of I-77 at the Catawba River to make extensive repairs.

Residents have branded the option for a new neighbourhood on green belt land as a “terrible idea”. Southend Council is working on its local plan which decides where housing is allocated over the next few years. One of the options being presented is a “new neighbourhood” of 7,254 homes on green belt land between Sutton Road and Star Lane, just north of the A1159 and A13. The proposals for 1,461 new homes at Fossetts Farm, which would go alongside a new Southend United football st...

Ways to navigate traffic as Catawba Bridge repair project approaching in two days Catawba River Bridge to close on Thursday By Morgan Newell | May 4, 2021 at 7:29 PM EDT - Updated May 4 at 7:29 PM YORK COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV) - York County is just two days out from a major bridge construction that’s going to slow traffic on I-77. More than 121,000 people drive across the Catawba River Bridge in York County every single day. Starting Thursday night, it will close and it will be closing for al...

COUNCIL bosses say building 7,000 new homes on greenbelt land “is just an option”, but that the borough must build 1,200 homes a year. Southend Council said it will not be able to meet all housing demands by the government by building on urban land, and are also looking at other areas for development. The council is required by the government to bring in 24,000 homes over the next 20 years, and identify land for businesses to accommodate between 10,000 and 12,000 jobs. It has faced ...