Smuggler who drove lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants died earned £100,000 from trafficking

Human trafficker Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 26, (pictured) who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he made trafficking people on refurbishing his girlfriend’s hair salon, a court heard today A human trafficker who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he … Read more

Earth swallows Brexit lorry park: 12ft-deep ‘sinkhole’

Twelve foot deep sinkhole forms at Brexit lorry park that was used to hold 4,000 lorries trying to take goods across Channel Manston Airport in Thanet, Kent, was used to accommodate 4,000 lorries  The hole first appeared on Boxing Day and estimated to be up 10 to 12ft deep  Environment Agency and Kent County Council … Read more

Moment EuroTunnel officials welcome FIRST lorry from Britain arriving into France

This is the historic moment the first lorry crossed the Channel to France after Britain began its new post-Brexit deal with the EU and Boris Johnson declared: ‘This is an amazing moment for this country – we have our freedom in our hands’. Truck drivers with the correct paperwork – and a negative Covid test – … Read more

Moment tiny Lada – once the butt of every car joke – transports huge lorry cab on its roof with ease

Small but mighty! Moment a tiny Lada -once the butt of every car joke – transports a huge lorry cab on its roof with ease Lada Riva was spotted with the huge front of a juggernaut on top of his motor  The tiny car sets off at the traffic lights in Tbilisi, Georgia, with it … Read more

1,600 lorry drivers are STILL waiting to cross The Channel after spending Christmas Day in cabs

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

3,000 lorry drivers are STILL waiting to cross The Channel after spending Christmas Day in cabs

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

Sikh charity delivers Dominor’s pizzas and curries to stranded lorry drivers

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

Thousands of lorry drivers stranded in Kent face Christmas heartbreak

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

Polish lorry driver’s heartbreak as he faces spending festive season stuck in his cab in Kent 

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

Lorry drivers face being stuck for days in makeshift camp on Manston airfield

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