ROADWORKS on the M6 will take longer than expected to complete.

Work on the busy western arm link road off the M6 onto the M5 has revealed the damage to the road surface is more extensive than first thought and will now not be completed until November.

Highways England has been replacing vital waterproofing at the beginning of M6 junction 9 at Walsall to the south on the M5 at West Bromwich since January.

Diversions will remain in place throughout, and during full closures of the M5 Western arm southbound traffic will be diverted along the M6 to Junction 7 to access the M5 southbound eastern arm.

Diversions for the M6 Junction 9 southbound on-slip closure will be on the local road network to M5 Junction 1 and to M6 Junction 7.

For more information visit www.highways.gov.uk.