"And then deciding to actually do something with this idiotic thing that I’d built." Off to Straightliners Speed Week he went ...

The 55-year-old gardener recorded the speed at a Straightliners event at Elvington Airfield, North Yorkshire. He said the souped-up wheelbarrow was the "most bizarre thing ever to ride".

The event is being run in partnership with Straightliners. Spectating is free and all riders will receive a commemorative printout showing their registered speeds across both the half- and one ...

BLUEBIRD, the legendary hydroplane speedboat in which Donald Campbell was killed while bidding for his eighth water speed record on Coniston Water in 1967, is coming to York. The restored boat ...

But it blew up so it needed some work." Straightliners Kevin Nicks created the Fastest Shed from his old Volkswagen Passat Now two years and 20,000 miles later, Mr Nicks has splashed out an ...