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The closure - to enable repairs to ageing bridges to be carried out - would affect junction 38 of the M6.

Complaints are raised after the motorway in Cumbria was closed to install a new rail bridge.

A bridge is being installed between junctions 39 at Shap and 40 near Penrith over the weekend.

United Utilities warns the work may be disruptive as the five-month upgrade gets under way.

Many sites, which act as corridors for insects and animals, have not been surveyed for decades.

Works to repair bridges on the M6 through the Lune Gorge in Cumbria will take four years.

Businesses say four years of long diversions on the M6 in Cumbria will cost them cash and customers.