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There are fears of a Christmas cauliflower shortage across parts of Cornwall after a heartbreaking incident on the roads.

Our photographer just happened to be travelling past the scene of this disaster on Friday morning.

It happened at a roundabout by RNAS Culdrose in Helston where the A3083 meets the B3293.

A spokesman for the naval airbase was quick to confirm that - thankfully - operations at RNAS Culdrose were not affected.

Phew.

From these shocking pictures it appears around a dozen Cornish caulis were hurt when a tractor shed its load.

The incident did not pop up on traffic reports by experts Inrix.

Google's traffic data appeared to show absolutely no problems whatsoever around the time of the spillage.

Devon and Cornwall Police said there was no trace of it on their logs.

The real-world impact of the loss is yet to be felt in shops, supermarkets and, ultimately, on Cornish dinner plates.

Our thoughts are with the people of Cury, Garras and Ruan Minor who may be hardest hit.

UPDATE: At 11.30am the roundabout and the approach road where the load was shed suddenly turned orange on Google's traffic map.

There is, at the time of writing, absolutely nothing to back up the suggestion that this has anything to do with the cauliflowers.