French firemen join fight to ease backlog of 6,000 lorries at Dover today

French firefighters armed with 10,000 testing kits have today joined the battle to help thousands of stranded lorry drivers across the Channel – with up to 6,000 lorries now stacked up in Kent. A group of 26 firefighters from the continent have joined the UK’s testing effort, personally administering the swabs to lorry drivers after … Read more

What happened to cause the lorry chaos in Dover and how many trucks have been affected?

What happened to cause the lorry chaos in Dover and how many trucks have been affected? Your key questions answered By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:28 GMT, 21 December 2020 | Updated: 08:24 GMT, 22 December 2020 What happened? France closed its border with the UK late on Sunday, initially for 48 hours, as more … Read more

Truck tailbacks stretch 20 MILES at Dover: Thousands of lorries queue for ferries

Queues at Dover reached 20 miles today with long traffic jams in Calais through the night as thousands of lorries – many full of Christmas gifts and food – tried to cross the Channel amid chaos at Britain’s container ports. Extraordinary photographs taken from above the M20 in Kent showed how vehicles were bumper-to-bumper amid … Read more

Truck tailbacks stretch 20 MILES at Dover: Thousands of lorries queue for ferries

Queues at Dover reached 20 miles today with long traffic jams in Calais through the night as thousands of lorries – many full of Christmas gifts and food – tried to cross the Channel amid chaos at Britain’s container ports. Extraordinary photographs taken from above the M20 in Kent showed how vehicles were bumper-to-bumper amid … Read more

Thousands of lorries queue through the night at Dover

Long snaking queues of lorries on the roads to Dover and the Channel Tunnel through the night and into today lays bare the disastrous crush at the nation’s ports as 2,000 more lorries than usual are crossing between Britain and Europe every day. Emergency measures were imposed on roads across Kent – for the third … Read more

Thousands of lorries queue through the night at Dover

Long snaking queues of lorries on the roads to Dover and the Channel Tunnel through the night and into today lays bare the disastrous crush at the nation’s ports as 2,000 more lorries than usual are crossing between Britain and Europe every day. Emergency measures were imposed on roads across Kent – for the third … Read more

Dozens of migrants including a woman and young child are brought ashore in Dover

Dozens of migrants arrived today after making the treacherous journey across the Channel in small boats in the first crossings since a family of five drowned at sea. Around 12 people including a woman and young child were on board one boat which was brought into Dover Marina at around 11am. The youngster, pictured wearing … Read more

Zac Efron is ‘NOT living in Bondi or Byron’ after all – living in Dover Heights

Zac Efron is ‘not living in Bondi OR Byron’ – and has instead ‘moved into a secluded clifftop mansion in one of Australia’s most affluent suburbs’ By Alex Michael For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:02 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 01:02 BST, 5 October 2020 Honorary Australian Zac Efron has moved out of the … Read more