The Latest Breaking News from National Highways

English motorway gantries get new, more secure design

National Highways hopes design will prove more resilient to trespassers after last year’s Just Stop Oil protests

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2023

New motorway gantries will be harder for protesters to climb

The steps for maintenance workers will be inside pillars instead, meaning protesters will not be able to climb up the structures easily

Wales Online · Mar 13, 2023

New motorway gantry design ‘more resilient’ against protesters

Gantries above the M25 were repeatedly scaled by Just Stop Oil activists in November last year.

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2023

M1 crane fire diversion as motorists face hours of delays after incident between junctions 30 and 31

The motorway is closed in both directions

Nottingham Post · Mar 10, 2023

Snow chaos 'made worse by drivers using hard shoulder and closed lanes and overtaking'

Drivers have been overtaking slow vehicles and getting stuck in fresh snow and using closed lanes and the hard shoulder

Wales Online · Mar 10, 2023

GMP traffic cops blame M62 snow gritting delays on 'illegal drivers'

The RAC also said 'the situation was made worse' by some drivers' actions

Manchester Evening News · Mar 10, 2023

Controversial Rimrose Valley dual carriageway plans set back years

Campaigners have called on the government to "scrap these dinosaur projects"

Liverpool Echo · Mar 10, 2023

'Scary' scenes on M62 as drivers freed by mountain rescue and cars left 'completely stuck' in heavy snow

"I have been on numerous ski holidays, but I have never seen anything like it, up on the top there."

Manchester Evening News · Mar 10, 2023

Motorists stuck for hours on M62 overnight after heavy snow

Some drivers described other motorists becoming impatient and attempting to drive through the snow on the lanes that had been closed

The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023

Storm Larisa to smash UK unleashing gales and blizzards TODAY as warnings issued

The Met Office has issued three amber warnings for northern England, the Midlands, North Wales and Northern Ireland, where 'significant disruption' to transport and power supplies are expected

Daily Mirror · Mar 10, 2023