Sikh Volunteers Deliver One Thousand Pizzas To Stranded Lorry Drivers In Kent
by : Emily Brown on : 24 Dec 2020 12:38 Khalsa Aid/PA Images
A group of Sikh volunteers did their part to try and raise the spirits of lorry drivers stranded in Kent by helping to deliver 1,000 Domino’s pizzas.
Thousands of lorry drivers ended up at the border of the UK this week after France closed its border to arrivals from the UK, amid rising concerns about a new strain of coronavirus detected in the UK.
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The border has now reopened, but the government has indicated queues outside Dover will not move for hours, as authorities try to clear the ‘backlog’ of lorries waiting to pass through.
Updated Dec 23, 2020 | 18:02 IST
Whether it was the Bushfires in Australia, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, and the protests in America, Sikh groups have always found ways to serve food and necessities to the needy. Sikh community delivers meals to stranded lorry drivers
Hundreds of lorry drivers in Kent who are currently stranded due on the French borders due to closure have received help from the Sikh community
The closure of the French borders has resulted in lorries getting stacked on the coastbound stretch of the M20. With no eateries or provisions nearby, the drivers are having to spend all their time on the road or at Manston airport. But now, they have received help from the Sikh community in Kent.
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Drivers barred from Dover Eastern Docks after France closed its borders to the UK over the new coronavirus variant
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Updated: 13:50, 22 December 2020
Lorry and van drivers told of their frustration at being held up at Dover because of the border closure.
French authorities imposed the 48-hour blockage from midnight on Sunday to prevent a new variant of coronavirus in the UK reaching their shores.
A policeman at the docks tells a driver to turn back
Romanian Peter Ionescu, left his lorry in the UK after finishing work and was travelling by car to join his family in his home country for Christmas by car.
Organisers said the event had since been improved and visitors had recently found it “magical”.
In Kent, a Covid-safe “whimsical Christmas tour” turned into a traffic nightmare that left parents wishing they, too, had a magical flying sleigh.
Visitor Debbie Clay posted, in comments published by Kent Online, “I have been shielding since March. This was my first trip out other than hospital and I can’t tell you how much I was looking forward to it.”
Cars were “stuck in mud” at the grotto’s entrance, she said. “I had high hopes to go out of 2020 with some spirit of good in my heart and you have squashed it. I want a refund - I am fuming.”