The US tech giant wants to roll out its Prime Air service from the Teesside town of Darlington, subject to planning permission and clearance for flights.

Amazon packages could soon be delivered to your door in under an hour, as the retail giant moves one step closer to launching deliveries by drone in the UK. The company has chosen its warehouse in Darlington as the proposed site from which to launch the service.

The US tech giant said it was now lodging planning applications with the local authority and was seeking clearance from the Civil Aviation Authority for the drone-based delivery service, which is know

Amazon has unveiled plans to launch Britain’s first drone delivery service in Darlington despite recently grounding US flights following crashes in wet weather...

Test drone deliveries in America saw Amazon deliver free items, such as cans of soup, to driveways. Amazon has chosen Darlington as the first location in the UK to see parcels delivered by drones. It says it will now start the planning process for initial flights from its fulfilment centre on the outskirts of the town.

Amazon's delivery drones are set to return to British skies, nine years after they were first trialled near Cambridge.

Darlington has been chosen to lead an astonishing new era of drone deliveries from retail giant Amazon. The first UK trials will start soon to make Prime Air deliveries all around a 7.5mile area, all of which will take off and be guided from the 465,

The tech giant said it will lodge a planning application to build flight operations at its Darlington fulfilment centre.