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Kent villagers are helping feed stranded truck drivers lined up along the motorway by lowering bags of food to them from bridges.
They are using rope and shopping bags to deliver goods including beans, fruit and sweets to stranded lorry drivers waiting for Covid tests.
Hundreds of hauliers are lined on the M20 as part of Operation Stack waiting for a negative test result before they can make their way to the continent.
It comes after French president Emmanuel Macron ordered the border with the UK to shut on Saturday following the detection of a new virulent strain of coronavirus in Britain.
The Transport Secretary has called for “patience” from thousands of lorry drivers stranded outside the Port of Dover following the French travel ban.
More than 6,000 HGVs are being held in Kent with some facing a fourth night in their cabs since the border was temporarily closed on Sunday night.
Trucks began entering the Eurotunnel again on Wednesday after the French government agreed to allow drivers through provided they had a negative Covid-19 result, but it is feared it could take days to carry out tests on the hauliers.
Mr Shapps said work continues to “get traffic rolling”, but added drivers needed to “follow instructions” from British officials in order to leave.
Fishguard port PEMBROKESHIRE County Council is sharing further details of the Authority’s work to prepare for changes to trading relations on January 1. The Brexit transition period ends on December 31 and in preparation the Council has been working closely with partners including the Welsh Government and the operators of the Ports of Fishguard and Pembroke. Part of the council’s work is Operation Stack. This involves co-ordinating and arranging the provision of lorry parking space away from both local ports. This is being provided for freight vehicles which arrive at the ports and do not have the required documentation and Movement Reference Number (MRN) to allow them to travel to Ireland.
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The coronavirus outbreak across the globe may have put a pause on many key moments in the fundraising calendar, including marathons and other sporting events, but the pandemic hasn t been able to stop charitable givings yet, while still observing self-isolation rules.
In a similar illustration of charity, members of the UK-based Sikh organisations, Langar Aid and Khalsa Aid, travelled 80 miles (approximately 130 kilometers) to deliver food to thousands of truck drivers, who have been stranded in Kent since early this week after France closed its border with the UK for nearly 48 hours amid concerns over the spread of a new strain of coronavirus.
Shapps calls for ‘patience’ as thousands of lorry drivers remain stranded
PA
23 December 2020, 10:10 pm
The Transport Secretary has called for “patience” from thousands of lorry drivers stranded outside the Port of Dover following the French travel ban.
More than 6,000 HGVs are being held in Kent with some facing a fourth night in their cabs since the border was temporarily closed on Sunday night.
Trucks began entering the Eurotunnel again on Wednesday after the French government agreed to allow drivers through provided they had a negative Covid-19 result, but it is feared it could take days to carry out tests on the hauliers.