Dramatic images from the scene show huge flames engulfing the lorry. A Traffic Scotland update reads: "M8 Junction 2-1: All lanes now running Eastbound between Junction 2-1 following the earlier ...

Part of the M8 has been closed near a busy junction after a lorry caught on fire. Junction 2 on the motorway near Newbridge has been shut due to the incident. Emergency services are at the scene.

Picture: Denis Minihane A man has been arrested after a car was driven the wrong way on a section of the M8 motorway in Cork on Wednesday night. During the alleged incident of dangerous driving ...

Anyone who was travelling between Junctions 9 and 17 on the M8 motorway from 9pm to 10pm on Wednesday night has been asked to contact An Garda Síochána. Anyone with information or video/ dashcam ...

Community message boards and social media lit up with drivers issuing urgent warnings as the vehicle, believed to be a van, made its way along the M8, forcing other drivers to take evasive action. One ...

Part of the M8 near Glasgow was shut off on Monday ... Our team followed the action as Emergency services raced to the busy motorway, near Chapelhall, after receiving a report of the incident ...

Police have also made an arrest after they were called to the incident on the motorway near Chapelhall in North Lanarkshire at rush hour this ... A 35-year-old man was subsequently traced and has been ...

Police have arrested a 35-year-old man and recovered a firearm following reports of an armed man on a motorway slip road. Officers said they were called to the M8 slip road at Junction 6 near ...

A SECTION of a busy Scottish motorway has reopened following an eight-hour hunt for a man was spotted with a possible weapon. The M8 was shut at junction 6 eastbound for Newhouse and Chapelhall in ...

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Armed police have swooped on a motorway after receiving reports of a man with a weapon on a slip road. Drivers are warned to avoid the M8 in Scotland as police look for the suspect. It is not clear ...