A27 road

A terrorist attack on a train between Amsterdam and Paris was thwarted by four brave passengers who overpowered the gunmen.

This month saw Cilla Black dying at 72 and a vintage Hawker Hunter plane crashing onto the A27 dual carriageway road during the Shoreham Airshow killing all 11 people.

Remember that? Did you guess the month and year? It was August 2015.

Today's story is from High Wycombe, a town around 30 miles northwest of London, and famous people from here include Disraeli, rugby player Matt Dawson, and the sixth and arguably the best Doctor Who, Colin Baker, of course.

So I think the question that Hannah and I look at is what would happen if the new political structures on either side of the West Sussex-Hampshire boundary worked together? We know that getting from Portsmouth to Brighton can take an absurdly long time.

The A27 or the A259 or even by railway can sometimes feel like a slog.

We talk about connections to airports, investment... whether Sussex and Hampshire could eventually develop the sort of strategic relationship we see between mayoral regions elsewhere.

Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City region are often jointly developing a sort of north-west prospectus.

"I truly believe that all the insane have been let out to run wild in this country at the moment." That's including the government, I might add.

"This mysterious figure was seen alongside A27 near Worthing and apparently caused a bit of a fright, uh, to people driving." Again, shadowy Cat in the Hat figure.

Um, so of course, police had to step in and explain that these sightings weren't real.

Uh, authorities in the UK and Ireland reassured residents that the images were fake, uh, and that they were AI-generated.

A Hawker Hunter jet performing an aerobatic display attempted a loop that did not have sufficient entry altitude to complete the maneuver successfully.

The aircraft came over the top of the loop with insufficient energy and entered a near vertical dive that impacted the A27 road adjacent to the airfield.

11 people on the ground were killed, none of them on the airfield itself.

The United Kingdom's Air Accidents Investigation Branch conducted an investigation whose published findings ran to hundreds of pages.

If you're travelling to or from Queen Elizabeth Country Park on the A3, the slip road and lane there will be closed off in both directions from 9pm onwards to allow for some drainage works to be carried out there.

And if you're travelling south this weekend, the A27 eastbound carriageway at Langstone Interchange near Havant will be closed from 9pm on Saturday until 6am on Monday whilst National Highways continues essential bridge safety improvements.

Signed diversion routes will be in place and it is likely to be busy.

For any further updates, you can reach us by phone at 01730 555 500 or contact us through our website at shineradio.uk. That's all from Jack at the Travel Desk for now.