M6 motorway

Road closures in place on the M42.

between junction 6 and 9 affecting routes to the M6 and M6 toll through Birmingham.

This relates to ongoing works regarding the HS2 project.

So if you're heading up to Turf Moor, like me and Danny Thompson, we'll be bright and early tomorrow morning.

Bar Beacon sits in its own nature reserve, with the surrounding area being carefully preserved and classified as green belt land.

Great Bar has become well connected across the years, with the M6 motorway being constructed across its skyline in the 1960s, and the M5 motorway being built just a short distance away.

Although it originated as a largely rural area, helped mainly by William Booth in the 18th century when he purchased 200 acres of land for the subsequently named Booth's Farm, it has since been developed into an area which is a mixture of urban and suburban.

In August 1975, Great Bar would become the setting of an intense search for an eight-year-old girl, who had spent time outside playing happily, but failed to come home at the expected time for her tea.

Helen Louise Bailey was born on 5 March 1967 in Birmingham in the West Midlands.

She was the younger of the two children of father, Leslie, and mother, Margaret, with her brother, Adrian, being two years her senior.

The family were described as close-knit and lived together in Booth's Farm Road, a short distance from the remains of the Booth's Farm estate and just a stepping stone from the M6 motorway.

Leslie worked at the Severn Trent Water Authority and the two children attended schools in the local area, with Helen being a pupil of Cullshot Road Junior School in 1975.

He is in full-time employment as a barber working for MK Cuts.

Fushong's previous convictions include drug driving on the M6 motorway.

He receives a 16-month driving ban and a £200 fine in May 2026.

Sentence on his latest matter was deferred pending background reports until next month by Sheriff Daniel Kelly.

Yeah

... because there's no direct motorway once you leave the M6.

So it brings you off the M6 at, um, sort of Stoke way.

A50?

A50, absolutely.

40 miles an hour-

Exactly

... up the M6, down the A50.

So I live in the northwest of England, and the conference was in Coventry, which is further down south in the Midlands.

And anyone that knows that area of the world knows there is a motorway called the M6 motorway that heads north to south from there.

So I was heading north back up the M6 to back to the northwest of England.

Now there's a section of the motorway where it splits, and you can take the toll road for 12 pounds or you can stay on the free road, and you end up at the same place regardless, like 15 miles further north.

But the toll road is, um, wider, clearer, less traffic.

So I must admit I'd, I hadn't checked the traffic before I left Coventry.

I just got on the road, and I'd said I'd be home for tea time, which was fine.

And I did take the free M6.