Lives hang in the balance after a car careers off the A1 closing the road. Meanwhile, a mission to move a coach full of concert goers stranded at the Great North Road becomes a titanic job.

The National Highways website says: "The A1 takes the route of the Great North Road ... of this connection is why it was given the number '1' when it became Britain's first numbered road in 1921. "The ...

Winding across the United Kingdom, the A1 is the longest numbered road in Britain, providing a route ... They are making their way north to visit family in Great Yarmouth. Further north he meets ...

Following the men and women who work around the clock on Britain's longest and most iconic road, ensuring the traffic keeps moving and the public is kept safe.

It has a story to tell and it’s one that is captured in Paul Graham’s book A1: The Great North Road. Cafe assistants ... photographs are a snapshot of Britain during the early years of ...

died in a crash on the A1 between Banbridge and Dromore in May 2018. His mother, Monica Heaney, has campaigned for safety issues to be addressed on the road. She said: "Most of the families that I ...

Work to permanently pedestrianise a section of road which was once part of the A1 has begun ... Narrowgate in Alnwick along what was then the Great North Road Gavin Penn, who runs Penn Gallery ...

Construction work to upgrade Britain's longest road into a major ... the Romans were using the A1 route as a major road of strategic importance and using the very latest technological innovations ...

The A1, which is the UK's longest road, covers around 410 miles from London in the south to Edinburgh in Scotland in the north, passing through 17 counties in total ...