TRAVEL IN SS2 5AY

COMMUTERS will face 'severe' train delays according to a train operator as five days of industrial action begins today.

A RETURNING holiday-goer has spoken about a hideous' ordeal at Stansted Airport where crowds, could not pass through border security due to a major malfunction affecting airports across the country.

Essex County Council's traffic control is reporting severe delays around Benfleet, Rayleigh, Wickford and Basildon

Border officials have been manually processing travellers instead with images shared to social media showing long queues forming at passport control at several airports

The M25 is closed clockwise between junction 27 for the M11and junction 28 in Brentwood due to a "serious vehicle fire", according to National Highways