I managed to travel on the new M1 J7-8 motorway link / slip road southbound, so although the roadworks continue for a few more months, I've been able to remove the construction tag. The same can't be said of the northbound road, as it's still not been built.

I also updated the J9 sliproads southbound, to reflect the slight changes to this junction too.

I've noticed a number of people put mapping parties, talks about OSM, and even SOTM into the upcoming.org event list. Although these are tagged with "osm" and "openstreetmap", there was no group bringing together the OSM users on the site. So, I've added an "OpenStreetMap" group, which is open to all, and which should contain a list of all OSM events that have been added to the site. Feel free to join the group.