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below. if you are in the sunshine, 20 degrees in maidenhead will feel quite pleasant. carol, thank you. john will learn his lesson, don t try to do the weather forecast before carol. especially when there is sleet in may, right?! bless you, you are kind of right. i really wasn t, let s be honest! she is too kind to you, definitely. fifty years ago today, a birmingham landmark was opened for the first time. spaghettijunction which connects the south east to the north west may still divide opinion, but it is now firmly part of the city s landscape. it looked like a massive pile of spaghetti from above. as it celebrates a milestone birthday, our midlands correspondent navtej johal has been to find out why half a century on it s still so important. the view that reveals why the gravelly hill interchange is better known as spaghetti
junction. over the course of half a century, the sprawling concrete arteries atjunction six of the m6 motorway have become part of the birmingham blood stream. and beneath the traffic, occasionally there is tranquillity. well, the reference cells look like they re working. helping to make things run smoothly for the 200,000 vehicles that use it every day, are this father and son. lewis, is there anybody who loves spaghetti junction as much as your dad? i don t think i can say i can. i think it s only him! mike has helped to maintain spaghettijunction for more than 30 years. lewis, the last seven. when you go back to the designer, sir owen williams, who had the foresight to design it, and then contractors to build it, and now here i am, 50 odd years later, maintaining it, i really do feel very proud of it. i mean, spaghettijunction has been so important to the area.
i really am proud of the job that i do, and i m really proud of the work that i do to help maintain the structure. archive: and good news to for all you motorists. i the last seven mile stretch i of the midland links motorway will be officially opened at 10:30 this morning. i and already, reports are coming in of a build up of traffic around i great barr and salford. it appears that many drivers just lcan t wait to try out that multi,| multi level interchange at gravelly hill. i declare this roadway open. back in 1972, it cost around £10 million to build and provided a non stop link between the south east and the north west. it was actually british architecture in its heyday. they used concrete to such good effect. this is the crossroads for the country. if this structure wasn t here, it would be really difficult to understand just how difficult it would be to get around the uk without this structure being here.