Amazon announced Monday it has picked the north England town of Darlington as the first site for its planned U.K. drone delivery expansion. Amazon was expected to expand Prime Air to the U.K. and Italy in 2024.

Amazon has revealed where in the UK it intends to start launching Prime Air drone deliveries. The US tech giant has chosen Darlington as the first site and will now set about lodging planning applications with the local authority.

Amazon Prime Air, the drone delivery arm of the e-commerce giant, is temporarily halting operations in Texas and Arizona to upgrade its drones’ software. The move follows crashes at Prime Air’s test facility in Pendleton, Oregon, in September and December, first reported by Bloomberg.

Amazon has paused testing of its delivery drones following a crash involving two of those drones, according to Bloomberg.

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

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.

The e-commerce and technology company has begun applying for permits to fly delivery drones in Darlington, England.

Amazon is planning to launch Britain’s first drone delivery service in Darlington as it looks for new ways to send customers their orders.

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

A councillor has welcomed Amazon's plans for a town to become the first in the UK to offer deliveries by drone. Darlington Borough Council's deputy leader Chris McEwan said there was a "long journey to travel" but described proposals as "quite interesting and exciting".