Mr Knox said that 27 collisions had occurred at the junction over the past three years.

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Changes have already been made to the junction over the past four years in a bid to cope with increased traffic from new housing developments.

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"This is fantastic news, I've been campaigning for an additional junction for over eight years now, " said Robert Halfon, the MP for Harlow.

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At the T-junction, Cashin pulled over.

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Eyjafjallajokull, in Iceland, which erupted in April, stopping commercial flights over the Atlantic and Europe for a week, is at a junction where the plates are growing and moving apart, as magma wells up from deep in the Earth.

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Mr Duguid is accused of demanding that the pensioner hand over his wallet before pushing and pulling him at the underpass at the junction of Lovers Walk and Riverside in the town.

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The lights were switched off at a junction where there had been excessive queues and within minutes of the lights being bagged over the queues disappeared.

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He visited Clapham Junction in south London - one of several areas in London hit by violence and looting over the past few days - alongside Home Secretary Theresa May on Tuesday.

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