Drivers have been asked to avoid areas in Surrey due to congestion caused by a partial closure of the M25.
"It's a way for them to showcase their work, it's a broad range, every picture is good and there's something for everybody."Mr Vosper said the plan was for the art to be displayed for the same duration as the hoardings remain up.
A group of young people have won a national award for their mural about the dangers of knife crime.The group, from Teesside, won the Prince’s Trust’s community impact award for the Tree of Life artwork.It features the names of about 300 people, who have all lost their lives to knife crime, on fallen leaves.
Charlie Greenwood, 19, who was part of the team which painted and designed the mural, told BBC Radio Tees it felt good to “give back to the community”.The teenager from Redcar said making the mural had made him realise how being the victim of knife crime could “easily” happen to him or “someone I know”.
The mural is a “conversation piece,” he said.
Nathan James, from the Education Training Collective (ETC) which delivered the Prince’s Trust programme the youngsters took part in, said the team beat over 280 projects to win the national award."You think, 'could it happen again?' They know when something's up, it just sort of took the fun out of it for a while," he said.
Three horses were killed out of 270 road incidents involving horses in the West Midlands in 2023, figures from the British Horse Society (BHS) revealed.Eighty-one took place in Staffordshire, 61 in Shropshire and 59 in Warwickshire, the BHS said.
There were 55 in Worcestershire, nine in the West Midlands and five in Herefordshire.The organisation said it feared a large number of drivers might still be unaware of