DRIVERS have been warned of traffic chaos on the M5 after a caravan crash this evening. Bumper-to-bumper queues are building ...

There is a closure on the M5 in Somerset after a crash. One lane has been closed in the southbound direction at J22 for ...

Many will hardly remember a time before the M5 existed. The motorway was officially opened on May 27, 1977, by then-Prime Minister James Callaghan. But the first piece of tarmac was laid 15 years ...

The split-level viaduct built to carry the M5 motorway through a Somerset hillside ... The BBC tracked down one of the workers who was involved in the building work. Video Journalist: Dan Ayers.

When the motorway was widened to three lanes many years later, the cost had shot up to £123 million. North of Junction 4 the M5 was constructed in sections, from 1967 to 1970, together with the ...

On May 27, 1977, Prime Minister of the day James Callaghan officially opened the M5 motorway ... Building the M5 1974-1977. By April 1974 the M5 had been opened as far as Taunton.

There is stop-start traffic on the M5 northbound through Somerset which is expected to become more congested as the day goes on. Traffic cameras between junctions 20 and 24 show traffic building.

DRIVERS have been warned of traffic chaos on the M5 after a caravan crash this evening. Bumper-to-bumper queues are building on the major motorway after a smash unfolded near Avonmouth Bridge, Bris… ...