There are long delays on the A12 this morning due to an earlier broken down lorry.

The vehicle broke down at around 7.15am in the northbound carriageway with traffic being held at 7.30am to allow recovery to take place.

Although traffic is no longer being held there is still heavy traffic by the Gun Hill overbridge.

According to the AA Traffic Map queues are building back to the Colchester Football Stadium turn off.

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