SOLDIERS from the Wiltshire based Household Cavalry Regiment have spent two weeks in Kent helping to clear a backlog of lorry drivers and hauliers bound for continental Europe. A total of 26 soldiers from the regiment travelled from their home at Ward Barracks in Bulford to the former Second World War Royal Air Force fighter base at Manston to support the Department of Transport conducting Covid-19 tests on the drivers as part of on Operation ROSE. The vast expanse of runway now serves as a location for the many thousands of Europe-bound lorry drivers to call into and get themselves checked for Covid-19 before heading off to the nearby channel ports and across to France.