Currently, commuters have to leave the motorways at an existing junction to find a nearby service station.

BBC: First motorway service stations for Northern Ireland

The Overground service linking Clapham Junction and Surrey Quays will have four trains an hour stopping at these stops, but the trains will not go in to Victoria or London Bridge.

BBC: Demonstrators 'mourn' loss of South London Line service

In north west Wales, a replacement bus service is taking rail passengers between Holyhead and Llandudno Junction due to flooding.

BBC: Wales floods: Roads closed and trains cancelled

Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said "a conservative estimate" was that the blaze, which is near junction 8 of the M1, "will still be ongoing a week from now".

BBC: Potters Crouch fire water problems 'to continue'