POLICE have been dealing with two incidents on the A14 in Suffolk this afternoon.

At about 2.40pm police received reports that a lorry had broken down on the A14 in Newmarket, westbound at junction 37.

The exit slip road is currently closed and a police spokeswoman said it is believed the lorry had shred a tyre.

At just after 2.40pm, police were called to the A14 at the Orwell Bridge, westbound between junction 56-57.

A police spokeswoman said that a woman had stopped her car and had been changing a tyre when traffic had began to build up.

One lane was blocked between Nacton Interchange and Wherstead Interchange.