Mick Tedder offers MPs in Dover, Folkestone, Ashford, Thanet, Canterbury and Maidstone solution over lorry delays for port-bound traffic
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One man has written to local politicians offering a plan to prevent future lorry snarl-ups.
This is now particularly feared through extra bureaucracy for hauliers following Brexit.
Mick Tedder near Dover Harbour. File picture: Matt Bristow
Mick Tedder s letter has gone to the MPs for Dover, Thanet, Folkestone, Canterbury, Ashford and Maidstone plus the leaders of Dover District Council and Kent County Council and to Dover Town Council.
Mr Tedder, 71, of Buckland Avenue, Dover, was a senior forwarding clerk at the town s freight forwarding company George Hammond Group from 1968 to 2011.
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first. essential personnel stayed in. all over town, different responses. people seemed to leave buildings on their own. formal evacuations as the white house, u.s. capitol and adjacent bimdings there. it bass a matter of hours building inspectors went around and sdidecided which were safe reopen. the supreme court never closed. never stopped operation, but in the meantime, federal officials, federal workers, have been sent home by the hundreds of thousands, traffic is snarled all over the washington area and to make matters worse, the washington, d.c. subway system, the metro, many of its training are operating at slower than normal speeds because they re trying to inspect the track at the same time the tracks are running. it raises real questions about what the city would be like if it were actually evacuated for real. but for the most part, it was more or less business as usual now. tomorrow we ll see what happens. whether all federal employees
obviously, the financial implications of this? ah, that s a. question. we re a small down. we only have about 430 residents. the town is about one mile square. sizewise, we have lots of older homes that structurally are a little weak anyway. so until everything is evaluated, we don t have any idea how much it s going to cost. the local grocery store, i went by there. all their shelves had been emptied into the aisle. so it s going to be a lot of labor and bulk to get things straight. we wish you well. you certainly have a positive attitude and thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. thank you so much. back to our cleaning. mayor pam harlow, at the ep e center of the quake. let me bring in andrea mitchell, of course, nbc news cheer foreign correspondent but she actually felt the quake today in washington.
epicenter of the quake. mayor, how are you doing right now? everyone in town is quite shaken up, but with the sigh of relief, so far i ve heard of no injuries. tell us a little where you were, what you felt what you experienced. actually i was sitting at my kitchen table. we had groundbreaking for our new town hall on friday and i had come home and sat at the table to write thank you notes for everyone that helped us with that, and fortunate that we re starting a new building, because our town hall appears to be the worst hit building in town. inside the walls are quite cracked. a lot of plaster has fallen. the top of the building has a lot of bricks that have become dismantled, and the other damaged all the old homes in town, i didn t see one that the klimny chimney was not broken. they all have old brick, and every one had been broken off. only one other building in town i had noticed that is unsafe to