The delivery driver sped off after the van she had been in crashed into a garden wall then ignored police when they signalled for her to pull over A teenager who sent a TEXT to a friend telling them “I’m being chased by the police” while leading cops on an 80mph pursuit has been spared jail. Delivery driver Charlotte Clowes, 19, sped off in a Ford Focus Transit van after it crashed into a garden wall.

Labour’s Gareth Snell has held onto his party’s seat in Stoke-on-Trent Central after the UKIP leader failed in his bid to take the seat. UKIP had campaigned hard in the lead up to the by-election as Mr Nuttall tried to capitalise on the region’s overwhelming support for Brexit.

Jeremy Corbyn is facing his toughest electoral test to date as voters go to the polls in two crunch by-elections in Labour’s traditional heartlands. The party is fighting to hold Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central in the face of strong challenges from the Conservatives and Ukip.

The under-fire parliamentary hopeful, who faced the resignation of two senior officials on Monday in protest at the party’s “crass insensitivity” over the tragedy, said he had spent three hours giving a witness statement to Operation Resolve. Mr Nuttall faced a fierce backlash and calls to resign as an MEP after it emerged claims that he lost close personal friends at Hillsborough were false.

Prime Minister Theresa May sits behind the Speaker, back row, as Baroness Smith of Basildon speaks in the House of Lords The House of Lords will conclude the first stage of a crucial Brexit debate after Theresa May and Boris Johnson ramped up pressure on them not to block or delay Britain’s exit from the European Union. In a highly unusual move on Monday, the Prime Minister sat on the steps in front of the Royal Throne in the Upper Chamber as Lords Leader Baroness Evans of Bowes urged peers not to frustrate the passage of the Brexit Bill.

The resignations are another blow to Ukip leader Paul Nuttall just days before the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election where he is hoping to oust Labour Stuart Monkcom, the chairman of leader Paul Nuttall’s own branch in Liverpool, and Adam Heatherington, chairman of the Merseyside regional branch, comments made by party figures had been “upsetting and intolerable” for the victims of the families. The announcement is another blow to Mr Nuttall just days before the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election where he is hoping to oust Labour.

TSA was awarded by CAF, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A. in Spain, to design and deliver traction motors for Civity UK, a low floor train solution which was developed for commuter and regional services. The train operator Civity UK will strengthen its service by purchasing 43 Civity electric trains which can reach a maximum speed of 160 km/h.

Ukip leader Paul Nuttall has told a party press officer who took the blame for an inaccurate claim that he lost “close personal friends” in the Hillsborough disaster that she can keep her job. Lynda Roughley offered to resign on Tuesday evening after her boss was forced to admit during a live radio interview that the claim – carried by his official website for six years – was wrong.

COUNCIL tax payers could continue to face hikes in their bills as Staffordshire Fire bosses look to save A 4.8m in the next three years. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Authority is set to agree at a meeting on Wednesday to raise its council tax precept by 1.75 per cent from April.

Labour has “plenty” of potential leaders waiting in the wings should Jeremy Corbyn choose to stand down before the next general election, the party’s new campaign coordinator has said. Ian Lavery appeared to suggest that Mr Corbyn could decide to quit ahead of the expected 2020 Westminster poll, but insisted that was not the situation at present.

Labour has “plenty” of potential leaders waiting in the wings should Jeremy Corbyn choose to stand down, the party’s new election coordinator has said. Ian Lavery said polling on shadow cabinet members was carried out in Manchester ahead of the upcoming mayoral election and such research was not “uncommon”.

The party is bidding to take its second seat in Westminster, in the poll called following the resignation of Labour MP Tristram Hunt. Gareth Snell will attempt to hold Stoke-on-Trent Central for Labour as Ukip’s leader hopes to capitalise on a strong Brexit vote in last year’s EU referendum to secure himself a place in the Commons.

Fair to say Labour’s anti-Brexit Stoke-on-Trent candidate is not a fan of Jeremy Corbyn. Gareth Snell backed Owen Smith in the Labour leadership election, blasting Jez as an “IRA supporting friend of Hamas” who “took money and worked at the Iranian state” .

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Ukip leader Paul Nuttall looks set to be the party’s candidate to fight the crucial Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election. A Ukip source confirmed Mr Nuttall has “thrown his hat into the ring” and will participate in a local hustings event alongside other nominees on Friday before the candidate is confirmed on Saturday.

A retro computer games fan has built the ultimate man cave in his back garden after converting his garage into a 1980s-style ARCADE. Mat Corne, 40, has spent thousands of pounds on dozens of classic video games machines – including Pac Man, Star Wars and Street Fighter II.