Pictures show work under way to bring down a bridge, which must be complete by Monday morning - or the closure could be extended.
'Good progress' has been made on the M25 in Surrey, where engineers are bringing down a bridge during the motorway's first ever planned daytime closure. A five-mile stretch between junctions 10 and 11 has been shut in both directions since 9pm on Friday and won't reopen until 6am on Monday, if works finish on time. Concerns have been raised that thousands will be held up in gridlocked traffic, despite National Highways highlighting a diversion route.
' Read more:M25 closure: Everything you need to know The closure is in place so the Clearmount bridge can be demolished to make way for motorway improvements, with engineers slowly chipping away at the concrete and steel structure. But now work has begun, they cannot stop - and with no plan B, the M25 would simply remain shut for longer if the job is not completed by Monday morning. It is the first planned daytime closure of the motorway - which encircles London - since it opened in 1986.
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