RAF crew deliver covid tests during Kent lorries crisis
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HUNDREDS of covid-19 testing kits were delivered by a helicopter crew from RAF Benson in order to get thousands of lorry drivers home.
Hauliers were forced to spend Christmas in their cabs after France shut its border to UK arrivals because of concerns over the new variant of coronavirus.
Thousands of drivers were stuck in Kent as they waited to cross the Channel.
There were huge queues on the M20 in Ashford as well as lorries packed into Manston Airport.
The French government later lifted its ban but drivers from the UK wanting to enter France had to show proof of a negative coronavirus test taken in the previous 72 hours.