Wales | Contentious highway plan dropped, cheering activists who feared damage to historic landscape
A controversial scheme to build a £1.4bn motorway through the Gwent Levels in south Wales has been scrapped by the Labour-led Welsh government.
The move has been welcomed by environmentalists who said carving a 14-mile, six-lane stretch of motorway around the city of Newport would wreck a precious and historic landscape.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/04/wales-scraps-gwent-levels-m4-relief-road-scheme