SUNDAY shoppers at Lakeside unexpectedly encountered heavy traffic on Sunday morning after a series of accidents and lorry fires on neighbouring roads.
Fire crews from west Essex and east London were kept busy after reports of a fully ladened petrol tanker had caught fire on the clockwise carriage of the M25, between the A13 and A127 junctions, at just after 5am yesterday <SUN>.
Firefighters set up a 200 metre exclusion zone around the tanker as a precaution, effectively closing the entire M25 - and also used a thermal imaging camera to identify hotspots on the tanker container itself in an effort to reduce the chances of explosion.
<See Monday's Echo for full details>
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