Frustrated motorists face 19,000 sets of ongoing road works

It is highly likely that the delays to your journey this morning were caused by road works and that's because it has just been revealed that around 19,000 different sets of road maintenance projects are currently ongoing.

That astonishing figure adds up to nearly 1,434 miles of torn up Tarmac - almost twice the distance between Land's End and John O'Groats.