Covid border chaos: Villagers lower food from M20 bridges near Ashford to truckers stuck in Operation Stack as Domino s deliver pizza
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Updated: 20:44, 24 December 2020
Inventive villagers are ensuring truckers stuck in Operation Stack don t go hungry - by lowering bags of food to them from bridges over the M20.
Kind-hearted residents from Mersham near Ashford are using a rope and bags for life to deliver goods including beans, fruit and sweets to stranded lorry drivers.
While some villagers have lowered food from the bridges, David and Jan James walked along the M20 to dish out donations to truckers. Picture: Barry Goodwin
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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.
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