Summer season holidays are off to a chaotic begin, with main journey delays and cancellations on roads, railways and at airports this weekend.
A lunchtime crash sparked tailbacks down the M5, with drivers warned of delays of an hour and a half on Sunday afternoon. In the meantime the M6 was closed in each instructions in a separate incident.
Coordinated arson assaults on the French rail community hours earlier than the Olympics began on Friday led to 1 in 4 trains being cancelled throughout the Channel, with Eurostar passengers advised to postpone their journeys if doable.
Though trains out of the UK to France have been pretty common, these hoping to return residence noticed lengthy delays.
Flights have been cancelled at Heathrow yesterday, together with a number of to the US. Arrivals into Gatwick from Orlando, Florida, have been additionally cancelled on Sunday morning.
In London, the Piccadilly and Waterloo & Metropolis Tube strains are underneath half closures, as is the Overground. TfL is reporting that the DLR can be half suspended as we speak.
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