A LORRY shed a load of bricks approaching the QEII Bridge on the M25.

The Highways Agency reports that the incident has been cleared and all vehicles recovered, but long delays remain, strecthing back to Junction 29 of the M25.

There are also long queues anti-clockwise, for traffic passing through the tunnels.

Ensignbus reports on its Twitter feed that traffic in the Lakeside area is very heavy.

A Highways Agency tweet at 10.30am read: "All lanes open and vehicles recovered A282 [southbound between] M25 J31 and J1A #DartfordCrossing. Long delays remain however [between] J29 and J30 [clockwise]."

Yesterday evening, the sheer volume of traffic using the Dartford Crossing caused roads in and around Lakeside to clog up, with long delays.