The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has expressed its ‘utter dismay’ as plans to make much needed improvements to new road building in Wales have been shelved, including the M4 relief road.

"We have seen a complete about face from the Welsh Assembly Government, who had promised that the M4 relief road would be open by 2013,” said Jo Tanner, FTA spokesman.

“Without it the future of the South Wales economy is severely hamstrung.”