Roads closed in Wiltshire due to flooding
Melksham Lane Broughton Gifford, both ways between The Street and B3107
Flooding on Melksham Lane in Broughton Gifford between The Street junction and the B3107 junction.
Bradford Road Atworth, both ways between A365 Bath Road and Coombe Lane
Flooding on Bradford Road in Atworth between the A365 Bath Road junction and the Coombe Lane junction.
Call for Severn Bridge tolls to be scaled down
Business groups have called for tolls on the Severn bridges to be slashed after they pass into public ownership.A number of groups have come together to urge that the tolls should be no greater than the cost of maintaining the bridges because of the drain on the local economy – on both the English and the Welsh sides of the Severn.The tolls go up again on January 1 which means cars will have to pay £6.40 – an increase of 20p each time they cross the bridge.Small goods vehicles…
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Congestion tackled at busy road junction
Rush hour congestion at Weston-super-Mare’s motorway junction has eased following a £15 million package of road improvements. New traffic lights have been installed on the motorway junction as part of the Weston Package scheme, which is now in its final phase. It was hoped that improvements could continue by turning on all the permanent lights at the junction by Christmas, but the complexity of the multi-junction has led engineering crews to delay the switch-on.
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Pair killed in crash on A48 in Lydney named locally
A man and a woman from Lydney who were killed in a car crash on a ‘notorious’ stretch of the A48 in the Gloucestershire town on Friday have been named locally as The victims, named locally as Tania Manka and Shayne Witts.
Mr Witts, 29, and Ms Manka, 46, both from Lydney, died at the scene in their Peugeot, while a 72-year-old woman in the other car, a Mitsubishi, was airlifted to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol with life-threatening injuries and remains in a serious condition.
A second woman…
