Therefore, when an incident occurs – as it did at the UK’s Alton Towers theme park on 2 June, when a train with 16 passengers crashed into a stationary car on the Smiler rollercoaster, causing serious ...

Stay, play and ride your favourite rollercoasters all over again with an extra day of fun at Alton Towers Resort. You can enjoy a second day at the UK’s biggest theme park for free, even during the ...

By comparison, Thorpe Park is 490 acres and Alton Towers is 550 acres. Proposed plans from Universal Destinations & Experiences also feature a 500-room hotel and a retail, dining and entertainment ...

The longest-serving employee at Alton Towers has now clocked up 45 years service. Phil has always worked for the garden and estate team and is now head gardener. Now Alton Towers has led tributes to ...

The Alton Police Department is looking for answers after two people were apparently shot on Homer Adams Parkway near the intersection with College Avenue. It happened just before 9pm Tuesday. Police ...

Some restaurants across the country have a unique approach: hot dog towers. A spin on the classic seafood tower, the multi-tiered wiener celebration has been showing up on the menus of sporting ...

SEATTLE, April 08, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) introduced Amazon Nova Sonic, a new foundation model that unifies speech understanding and speech generation into a ...

Not all monorails are based in cities. The monorail at Alton Towers theme park, in the UK, opened back in 1987 and transports guests from the car park to the entrance. Guests get a glimpse of ...

ALTON — A former Mayor of Alton sat down with The Telegraph to explain his feelings on what it takes to run Alton properly. Tom Hoechst, who served as Alton's mayor from 2009-13, said that ...

Part of the A34 remains closed. Utility giant United Utilities first shut Congleton Road North, in Scholar Green, over the weekend following a water leak. It remains closed on Tueaday, April 8.