Transport - Road

Motorists face diversions of between 20 and 30 miles when the south and north bridges at Birchanger Green are closed for repairs and resurfacing.

M11 from Bishop's Stortford to Saffron Walden and A120 from Stansted Airport to Braintree to benefit from maintenance and improvement work.

Work involving essential repairs and resurfacing of the north and south bridges at Birchanger Green junction 8 will take place over six weekends.

Besides the new junction 7a, the project saw the widening of B183 Gilden Way/Sheering Road and installation of a new link road.

The A1250 is closed between Stortford Hall Park and the Nags Head until Thursday as UK Power Networks carries out emergency maintenance.

The road works have come at the same time as temporary traffic lights in Silver Street and a planned closure of Church Road next week.

The national chain wants to turn a site off the B1256 at Start Hill, near the M11 junction 8 roundabout, into a logistics depot.

Surfacing works to the entire link road, slip roads, dumbbell roundabouts and M11 overbridge are now complete.

Grove Hill resident Andrew McDonnell is urging the parish council to keep fighting to remove lorries from the village centre.

Police were called at 8.20am on Thursday after the boy was involved in a collision with a Nissan at All Saints Primary.

A row erupted after two vehicles met head on, resulting in a female motorist being shoved backwards by a male driver.

County council published its Bus Service Improvement Plan last year, setting out vision for greater bus frequencies and simpler fares and ticketing.

The increase in charges which came in on Monday apply to nine car parks in Bishop's Stortford plus Bell Street in Sawbridgeworth.

The northbound carriageway from Harlow to Stortford will be closed overnight 8pm-6am from Sunday April 3 to Thursday April 7.

There will be 24/7 temporary traffic signals near East Road (April 4-8) and at the junction with Manor Links (April 9-17).

"We have reiterated to the developer their permit does not allow for weekend working and no future works should take place over a weekend."

Temporary traffic signals in Link Road, plus four-way temporary lights at the Hockerill junction and roadworks at Windhill led to gridlock on Saturday

Officers spent three days at the Uttlesford transport hub educating commercial drivers and airport workers about signs youngsters might be victims.

The money will be spent delivering nearly 1,500 maintenance schemes across the county's 3,000 miles of roads and pavements by March 2023.

Junction 8 Bishop's Stortford to junction 7 Harlow is being closed between 9pm and 5am from Monday (March 14) to Friday (March 18).