Traffic on the new Severn Bridge has been restricted to two lanes after a 280-ton dredger collided with a column when its engines failed.

No damage was believed to have been done to the bridge - which links England and Wales - or the vessel, but the restriction has been put in place pending an engineer’s inspection, a spokesman for Swansea coastguard says.

"The dredger was towed into Avonmouth by the coastguard. Its two-man crew is unharmed."

He added that at one point winds of up to 93mph were recorded in Mumbles, on the western side of Swansea Bay