UK travel warning as 20 million Christmas trips expected
The RAC predicts 19.6 million car trips in the run-up to the first post-pandemic Christmas - with almost eight million of those vehicles on the UK's roads on Friday and Saturday.
The M4 around Newport is set to be Wales' busiest stretch of road, with congestion also expected around Port Talbot and Swansea. Long distance bus companies have added extra capacity on rail strike days due to what they described as "unprecedented" demand.
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