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

English Channel: Dozens of migrants 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: 01:09 BST, 5 October 2020 Honorary Australian Zac Efron has moved out of the … Read more

Dozens of migrants arrive in Dover by dinghy after making Channel crossing in the dark

Dozens of migrants have made it across the English Channel in small boats for the first time in a week. Around 40 people are understood to have been detained as they took advantage of a change in weather conditions as strong winds eased. One boat with 13 people – 11 men and two teenage boys – … Read more

A TON of cocaine worth up to £100million is found hidden within fruit shipments at Dover

A TON of cocaine worth up to £100million is found hidden within fruit shipments at Dover port The cocaine was discovered concealed within shipments of fruit at the Kent Class A drugs with street value of approximately £100 million found in pallets  Joint operation involved National Crime Agency and Police Scotland Organised Crime Partnership By … Read more

Motorists stuck in TEN HOUR delays as police conduct counter terror security checks at Dover docks

Counter-terror police have caused traffic mayhem by conducting sweeping spot checks on thousands of vehicles at the Port of Dover as furious motorists now face 10-hour delays and nine-mile queues.  Officers from the Metropolitan Police and Kent Police have been searching all vehicles and passengers entering the major shipping hub as a part of a … Read more

Thousands of motorists heading to Europe are facing TEN HOUR delays in Dover during security checks

Thousands of furious motorists are facing 10-hour delays and nine-mile queues as police conduct sweeping spot checks in a major security operation at the Port of Dover – but refuse to reveal why.  Lorries trying to access Dover docks in southern England have been brought to a standstill after Kent Police officers checked every vehicle … Read more

Disused army barracks will be first migrant holding camp as father pictured with baby in Dover

A disused army barracks in Kent is set to be turned into the UK’s first migrant holding camp as more people make the journey across the Channel, including a father who was today pictured carrying his baby beneath the White Cliffs of Dover. Around 400 people including families, believed to have crossed the Channel in … Read more

Dozens of migrants in several inflatable dinghies land on beaches in Kent as 40 arrive in Dover

Dozens of exhausted migrants including families with young children waited on the side of the road to be picked up near Kingsdown Beach in Kent after crossing the English Channel today. At least 20 suspected migrants crossed from France into Britain today and landed on Kent shores, while another 40 were brought into the busy … Read more