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HGV’s hoping to use the Eurotunnel should continue down the M20 and leave the motorway at junction eight. Highways England says COVID testing facilities are available at Manston Airport but have urged drivers to arrive in Kent already with a negative result. The Department for Transport (DfT) has also urged drivers to ensure they have received a negative result before travelling. A statement said: “Thanks to the support of the army, the backlog of HGVs in Kent has been cleared and hauliers ...

Hauliers planning to load up their HGVs with goods and take them across the Channel will have to contend with new rules from January 1.

Covid border chaos: M20 coastbound on-slips between Ashford and Folkestone reopen  |  All slip roads leading onto the M20 have now reopened. Highways England had kept the coastbound on-slips between Junction 9 for Ashford and Junction 13 for Folkestone closed for days - even though the queues on the motorway had cleared following the French border chaos. The coastbound on-slips were closed between Ashford and Folkestone It said the move would "support Operation Brock", but it led to bewilderm...

A huge backlog of lorries in Kent that saw drivers stuck in their cabs over Christmas has been cleared. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the M20 has also been reopened after the British Army carried out 21,000 lateral flow tests with 66 positive results. Thousands of drivers spent days in queues to reach the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel after France temporarily closed its border on December 20. The move came after the discovery of a fast-spreading Covid-19 variant in the UK, with French au...

The variant has been detected in several European countries, as well as in Japan, Australia and Lebanon.

Lorries queue at Dover to cross The Channel as Storm Bella delays ferries, while Grant Shapps urges France to ditch testing rule for drivers after just 36 Covid cases found among more than 15,000 swabs Port of Dover suffered a setback today when freight ferry services were cancelled due to winds of Storm Bella Services delayed by up to 50 minutes at the Port of Dover today as a knock-on, but have since been cleared It comes after days of disruption following Frances travel ban after the identif...

Only 1,600 to go..! Kent lorry chaos begins to ease with less than 2,000 drivers waiting to cross The Channel - after British and Polish army and French firefighters find just 36 Covid cases in testing drive Around 1,600 truckers remain stuck in the lines of lorries which line the M20 in Kent despite mass testing  Another 800 military personnel were sent to Kent as part of Operation Rose to help test the truckers  Thousands of drivers spent Christmas Day in their lorry cabs as they waited to ...

An extra 800 military personnel have been sent to help the thousands of lorry drivers spending Christmas Day still stranded at Dover.

» Salvation Army volunteers fed some of the 1,500 truck drivers stranded in Kent after France closed its border with Britain Salvation Army volunteers fed some of the 1,500 truck drivers stranded in Kent after France closed its border with Britain Adam PayneDec 23, 2020, 15:24 IST Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Volunteers from the Salvation Army stepped in to feed truck drivers stranded in Kent in Monday night. The charity organisation intervened amid warnings that there were insufficient food suppl...

A pandemic Christmas: How countries around the globe are celebrating The coronavirus left almost no one unaffected. Patricia Hager, 60, delivered homemade caramel rolls for breakfast to family and friends in Bismarck, North Dakota, a state that didnt get hit until later in the pandemic but was struck hard. READ MORE: Indian homeless people celebrates Christmas at Good Samaritans India (NGO) shelter home on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Friday, Dec. 25, 2020.(AP) It seemed every time she op...