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Mobile speed cameras in northern Lincolnshire - January 27-February 2 26 January 2025
Enforcement officers will be visiting roads across the region with some locations published by Safer Roads Humber
Appeal for driver to 'come forward' after teen suffers 'fractures to his face' 23 January 2025
Police are appealing for the driver to come forward
Nearly three weeks of overnight closures on M180 to begin 21 January 2025
Concrete and bridge joint repairs are taking place on the westbound side of the motorway
Mobile speed cameras in northern Lincolnshire - January 20-26 including A180 19 January 2025
Enforcement officers will be visiting roads across the region

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Trump says he is pressing Jordan Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza

President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip. Mr Trump also floated potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate. During a 20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, Mr Trump said he discussed his vision on a call earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak on Sunday with president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt. “I’d like him to take people. I’d like Egypt to take people,” said Mr Trump. “You’re talking about, probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know it’s, over.’” Speaking about the effects of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, Mr Trump said he complimented Jordan for having successfully accepted Palestinian refugees and that he told the king: “I’d love for you to take on more, cause I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.” He said of such a mass movement of Palestinians, “it could be temporary or long term”, adding that the area of the world that encompasses Gaza, “over centuries” has “had many, many conflicts”. “Something has to happen,” Mr Trump said. “But it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there.” He added: “So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement on Sunday, thanked Mr Trump for “keeping your promise to give Israel the tools it needs to defend itself”. He did not mention Mr Trump’s suggestion on Palestinian refugees. But Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, told reporters that his country’s rejection of the proposed transfer of Palestinians was “firm and unwavering”. Mr Trump has offered non-traditional views on the future of Gaza in the past. He suggested after he was inaugurated on Monday that Gaza has “really got to be rebuilt in a different way”. The new president added then: ”Gaza is interesting. It’s a phenomenal location, on the sea. The best weather, you know, everything is good. It’s like, some beautiful things could be done with it, but it’s very interesting.” His resuming delivery of large bombs, meanwhile, is a break with then-president Joe Biden, who halted their delivery in May as part of an effort to keep Israel from launching an all-out assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. A month later, Israel did take control of the city, but after the vast majority of the one million civilians that had been living or sheltering in Rafah had fled. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centres,” Mr Biden told CNN in May when he held up the weapons. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah … I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem.” The Biden pause had also held up 1,700 500-pound bombs that had been packaged in the same shipment to Israel, but weeks later those bombs were delivered. Mr Trump’s action comes as he has celebrated the first phase of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that has paused the fighting and seen the release of some hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Negotiations have yet to begin in earnest on the more difficult second phase of the deal that would eventually see the release of all hostages held by Hamas and an enduring halt to the fighting. The Israeli government has threatened to resume its war against Hamas — which launched a massive assault against Israel on October 7, 2023 — if the remaining hostages are not released. Published: 26/01/2025 by Radio NewsHub

More weather warnings issued as 80mph gusts recorded in south west England

Gusts of 80mph have been recorded in south-west England amid further wind and rain warnings in the wake of Storm Eowyn. A new weather front has arrived in the South West and will move northwards across England and Wales during Sunday. An 82mph gust was recorded in Predannack, south Cornwall, on Sunday morning. Areas that bore the brunt of Storm Eowyn will “generally fare a little bit better” but there will be some snow across higher ground in Scotland, the Met Office said. Two men died in separate incidents where a falling tree struck their cars during Storm Eowyn. A tree hit a 19-year-old’s blue Ford Focus at about 6.45am on Friday in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, and he died the following day, Police Scotland said. An amber weather warning was in place in that area at the time. Scottish First Minister John Swinney offered his condolences to the man’s family and friends. He said in a statement shared on X, formerly Twitter: “This is tragic and heartbreaking news. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the family and friends of the man who has died.” Kacper Dudek, 20, died after a tree fell on his car at Feddyglass, Raphoe in Co Donegal, early on Friday and Irish police are investigating the incident. Yellow warnings for wind and rain have been issued for much of the south of the UK during Sunday and Monday. Spanish meteorologists have dubbed the low-pressure system Storm Herminia, as the European country will feel the strongest winds. Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said: “It’s also going to be wet and windy over the next few days in southern parts of the UK in particular. “In most parts of the UK we’re going to have some very wet and at times also very windy weather over today and Monday. “But from Tuesday onwards, I’m expecting it generally to stay fairly changeable, but some showers at times and quite windy, but not as disruptive as it has been – I think overall, probably warnings are less likely from Tuesday onwards. “Certainly tonight in the south east of the UK, we could see some briefly very strong winds, and we could also see some very strong winds across Cornwall and Devon tomorrow in particular”. Coastal parts of those areas will “very likely” see 60mph to 70mph gusts. There may also be very localised 70mph to 80mph gusts in the South East during Sunday night. A yellow wind warning is in place across Northern Ireland until 7pm on Sunday, another is active until 5pm that day in southern parts of the UK, south-west Scotland, and Wales. A further yellow wind warning runs between 10pm on Sunday and 7am on Monday and covers large parts of the southern England, the north west, West Midlands and Yorkshire. Gusts of 55-65mph are possible overnight and there is a small chance they could reach 80mph, the Met Office said. All three warn of potential disruption. A yellow warning for periods of heavy rain that could cause some flooding of roads and properties had been issued for the west Midlands and most of Wales until 11.59pm on Monday. The Met Office expects 20mm to 40mm to fall quite widely and 50mm to 70mm on higher ground. Another for heavy rain, thundery showers and some localised flooding is active for parts of central and southern England until 6am on Monday. It is forecast that 10mm to 20mm of rain will fall quite widely, nearing 30mm to 50mm at greater altitude. Further heavy rain on Sunday evening could bring it up to 80mm in a few places. Ben Lukey, a flood duty manager at the Environment Agency, said: “Spells of heavy rain mean surface water and river flooding is possible across parts of England on Sunday, overnight into Monday. “Although not expected, impacts could include localised flooding from watercourses, drains, channels and flooding from overland flow. “The risk of coastal flooding remains very low. However, we urge people to stay away from exposed areas on beaches, promenades, coastal footpaths and roads where large waves and sea spray could be dangerous.” He warned people not to drive through flood water as 30cm of flowing water is enough to float a car. Ministers from across the UK held an emergency Cobra meeting on Saturday to co-ordinate recovery efforts, and extra engineers were dispatched from England to Northern Ireland and Scotland. NIE (Northern Ireland Electricity) Networks said that at midday on Sunday about 75,000 of its customers remained without electricity after Storm Eowyn, and 210,000 properties had been reconnected. By the same time more than 14,080 SP Energy Networks customers were still off-grid, though power had been restored to more than 220,000. It has took 69,000 calls during Storm Eowyn, equivalent to two months of calls in two days. Published: 26/01/2025 by Radio NewsHub

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