Rain means delay on bypass work

Thousands of vehicles drive through the village every day

Completion of a bypass at one of the South West's worst traffic bottlenecks has been put back a week because of poor weather.

Heavy rain turned parts of the site at Dobwalls, Cornwall, into a mudbath.

It means that work on the £42m road, which started in 2006, will not be finished until mid October at the earliest said the Highways Agency.

The bypass should take about 90% of the 21,000 vehicles a day that use the A38 through Cornwall away from the village.

The need for a bypass was first identified in the 1960s and was finally given approval in August 2006 after a public inquiry.