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Roads are expected to be busy, and some rail lines will be closed for engineering works and strikes, for those journeying during the August Bank Holiday weekend. The RAC estimates 20 million leisure trips will be made by car between Friday and Monday, with the M25 anticlockwise from Junction 17 to Junction 12 expected to be busy.
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