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Published: 10:23 AM February 19, 2021    Army Reservists have spent two weeks on Op ROSE, the military's code word for the operational deployment of troops in support of the Department of Transport in the testing of all lorry drivers and hauliers bound for continental Europe. - Credit: Corporal Rob Kane Soldiers from Norwich have been deployed to help with the logistical challenge of testing all lorry drivers and hauliers crossing the Channel. Since the Kent strain of the coronavirus, the government turned to the military to help keep on top of testing and registering the tens of thousand...

Lt Amy Blake, a Royal Navy reservist based in Portsmouth, pictured with the press supporting the military's media coverage during the coronavirus testing crisis at Christmas. Photo:Royal Navy Lt Blake spent her Christmas in crisis communication after the French government shut the borders to hauliers unless they could prove a negative coronavirus test. ‘I received a phone call on December 23 and within a few hours I was on duty to deal with the media frenzy. I then spent my Christmas Eve on site at Manston, escorting BBC News around and providing an interview with the commanding officer,’...

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 cross Channel to France Villagers from Mersham, near Ashford, lowered food from bridges to feed the ...

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

LONDON: A further 800 military personnel have been sent to Kent to help thousands of lorry drivers waiting to cross into France on Christmas Day.Some 1,100 troops have now been deployed as part of...