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| | Articles - M6 motorway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | It runs from a junction with the M1 near Rugby in central England, passes near Coventry, through Birmingham and near the major cities of Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Liverpool, and Preston, and runs to the north of Carlisle, close to the Scottish border. |
 | | It is also sometimes referred to as the "Backbone of Britain" as it forms part of the central road corridor between Glasgow and London, connecting the industrial North of England to its financial and governmental heart in the South East. |
 | | The first section of the motorway, and indeed the first motorway in the country, the Preston by-pass, was opened by the then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on December 5, 1958. |
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