THE M6 was closed in one direction following a crash this morning, Thursday.

Highways England are reporting very slow traffic due to accident with two cars involved.

It happened Northbound at junction 21 for Woolston with congestion back to junction 19 at Knutsford.

Two lanes of the motorway were initially shut before traffic was stopped completely at around 9am while the emergency services removed the vehicles from the highway.

All lanes have since reopened but there are currently delays of about 25 minutes.