Slug brings Darlington traffic to a halt

Another step in the rise of the north's urban wildlife, although not a happy one for the slugWere you caught up in Darlington's traffic chaos on Friday? Engineers have now found out why.The answer lies in the picture here. A slug - not this one, but one like it as we have a habit of saying in the media - crawled inside a traffic light control box and tried to eat its workings.This short-circuited the electrics and killed the lights managed by the box in Whinfield Road. It was the end of the slu...

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