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Around 1,600 lorry drivers are still waiting to cross The Channel after spending Christmas Day separated from their families in their cabs but more are arriving ‘every hour’. Despite efforts to help those stranded in their trucks get home before the festive season, thousands were still left waiting around yesterday as 800 military personnel were drafted … Read more
Around 3,000 lorry drivers are still waiting to cross The Channel after spending Christmas Day separated from their families in their cabs but more are arriving ‘every hour’. Despite efforts to help those stranded in their trucks get home before the festive season, thousands were still left waiting around yesterday as 800 military personnel were drafted … Read more
Hundreds of soldiers have been sent to Kent to carry out Covid tests on stranded truckers in a bid to try and clear the backlog of lorries waiting to cross the Channel. The French are demanding a negative Covid test from lorry drivers before they are allowed to cross the border after introducing a travel … Read more
Kent villagers are helping feed stranded truck drivers lined up along the motorway by lowering bags of food to them from bridges. They are using rope and shopping bags to deliver goods including beans, fruit and sweets to stranded lorry drivers waiting for Covid tests. Hundreds of hauliers are lined on the M20 as part … Read more
A group of Sikh volunteers have tried to the raise the spirits of lorry drivers stranded in Kent with a delivery of 1,000 Domino’s pizzas amid the ongoing border chaos. Thousands of foreign drivers are likely to spend Christmas stuck in the UK as the Government has indicated queues will not move for at least … Read more
A Polish lorry driver has told how he had to make the heartbreaking call to his pregnant wife and daughters telling them he was unlikely to make it home for Christmas, and would instead be spending it in his cab stuck on the A20 in Dover. Wojtek Golawski is one of thousands of truckers stranded … Read more
A Polish lorry driver told tonight how he had to make the heartbreaking call to his pregnant wife and daughters telling them he was unlikely to make it home for Christmas, and would instead be spending it in his cab stuck on the A20 in Dover. Wojtek Golawski is one of thousands of truckers stranded … Read more
Desperate lorry drivers stranded in makeshift camps at Kent’s Manston airport have pleaded to be allowed home for Christmas amid fears that even with the introduction of rapid testing the backlog of drivers willl take days to clear. The military is heading to Kent today to start a mass testing programme after France confirmed it … Read more
Which countries have banned flights from the UK? EU All flights from UK banned – Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden. UK travellers allowed with a negative test – Cyprus, Greece. Still allowing own nationals to enter – Greece, Portugal, Spain. REST OF EUROPE All flights from … Read more
Which countries have banned flights from the UK? France imposed an inbound travel ban from 11pm last night Spain will ban all entries from the UK except for Spanish nationals and residents from tomorrow Germany, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Romania, Malta, Croatia, all suspended flights from the UK Italy blocked all flights from the UK until 6 … Read more