IT was snow joke! Some people thought winter had come early after a lorry shed its load.

A flurry of foam beads blocked Railway Road in Darwen after a lorry got stuck under a railway bridge. The lorry was delivering cavity wall insulation.

Firefighters, police, and engineers with cutting gear took three hours to remove the wedged lorry from underneath the bridge.

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