{"id":14644,"date":"2024-10-01T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14644"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:01:07","slug":"bristol-live-exclusive-m4-diverted-via-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14644","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Live exclusive: M4 diverted via Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The London to South Wales motorway, otherwise known as the M4, runs from Chiswick in the west of London to Pont Abraham Services near Pontarddulais in Sir Gaerfyrddin (<em>that&#8217;s Carmarthenshire for monoglots. Ed.)<\/em>. It passes through or close to the major towns and cities of Slough, Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Casnewydd (Newport), Caerdydd (Cardiff) Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (Bridgend), Port Talbot and Abertawe (Swansea).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_14660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14660\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/m4.png\" alt=\"The route of the M4\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/m4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/m4-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Route of the M4. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n<p>Or rather it did: until a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/motorway-lane-shut-somerset-after-9590038\">traffic report on Sunday<\/a> in Bristol Live which saw road repairs move it several tens of kilometres south from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Gloucestershire\">South Gloucestershire<\/a>, the unitary authority in which Tormarton is situated to Somerset.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/600px_m4.png\" alt=\"Headline reads Motorway lane shut in Somerset after road repairs &#039;fail to set&#039;\" width=\"600\" height=\"538\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/600px_m4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/600px_m4-300x269.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Fact checking is important when reporting the news, except it seems when one works as a Reach plc &#8216;<em>journalist<\/em>&#8216;: or the newsroom atlas has inexplicably gone missing; or is non-existent.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London to South Wales motorway, otherwise known as the M4, runs from Chiswick in the west of London to Pont Abraham Services near Pontarddulais in Sir Gaerfyrddin (that&#8217;s Carmarthenshire for monoglots. Ed.). It passes through or close to the major towns and cities of Slough, Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Casnewydd (Newport), Caerdydd (Cardiff) Pen-y-bont ar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32,17],"tags":[40,36,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-14644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14666,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions\/14666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}