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Easter holiday travel chaos continues as people going to France told to bring supplies for long Dover queues

Travellers via the Channel Tunnel are being advised to bring food and drink amid lengthy queues

Evening Standard

More disruption expected with flights and ferries hit ahead of Easter getaway

Flights still being cancelled, while airports have warned travellers to expect lengthy queues and ferries struggle to meet demand

Wales Online

P&O Ferries full list of cancellations this weekend and your refund rights explained

Full list of P&O Ferries cancellations this weekend as the ferry operator has axed routes including Dover, Calais, Larne and Cairnyarn with passengers told to find alternatives themselves

Daily Mirror

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P&O Ferries suspends all services and tells customers to find alternative travel

The scandal-hit ferry company has cancelled all operations since March, after its decision to sack 800 staff members and replace them with agency workers sparked national outrage.

Daily Record

Walmart Raises US Trucker Annual Pay To $110,000

Walmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) has raised the starting pay for the drivers of Walmart Private Fleet to $110,000 a year. The retail giant employs about 12,000 long-haul truck drivers under its fleet. The move comes amid a shortage of drivers that threatens to prolong supply chain snarls and merchandise shortages, Reuters reported. "We're proud to…

Benzinga

Glitch in post-Brexit customs system adds to major Channel lorry chaos on Kent roads

A 23-mile stretch of the M20 is closed amid HMRC technical problems and a ferry shortage

The Independent UK

Customs IT meltdown adds to long delays at Channel crossings

Chaos as outage of key HMRC system combines with P&O Ferries problems and surge in tourist traffic

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Chaos as 23-mile stretch of motorway closed due to ferry shortage

Part of the M20 in Kent has been closed to store thousands of lorries heading for the Port of Dover

Wales Online

Only one of P&O's eight ferries has been cleared to sail three weeks on from mass sackings

Sailings from Dover to Calais have been cancelled this weekend, threatening to affect travellers hoping to get abroad during the Easter period

Wales Online

P&O Ferries to resume sailings on routes suspended since it sacked nearly 800 staff

The Pride of Kent and Spirit of Britain, between Dover and Calais, are two of the vessels to resume sailing

Manchester Evening News

Majority of P&O services still suspended three weeks on from mass sacking of 800 staff

Of P&O’s eight ferries that were affected by the axing of crew, and replacement by agency workers, just one has been cleared to sail, three weeks on from its decision to fire 800 staff

Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries sets out plan for resumption – with free trips for disrupted travellers

Controversial company hopes to bring two ships back on Dover-Calais next week

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries passengers told that DFDS can’t take them from Dover to France at the weekend

‘Please do not proceed to port without a confirmed reservation, contact P&O Ferries for alternative travel arrangements,’ says rival ferry firm

The Independent UK

Child dies after emergency near the White Cliffs of Dover

Death is not being treated as suspicious

Wales Online

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The Independent UK

Child dies after being found near Dover cliffs and rushed to hospital

They were pronounced dead at a local hospital, Kent Police say

The Independent UK

Child dies after being found near White Cliffs of Dover

Kent Police said emergency services were called to an area near Swingate on Monday.

Daily Mirror

Child dies after being found near White Cliffs of Dover and rushed to hospital

Kent Police, HM Coastguard and South East Coast Ambulance Service were in attendance at the scene near the White Cliffs of Dover in Swingate, where a child has died

The Guardian - UK

Caught up in the chaos at Dover, the kids and I made the best of it. Then the jaffa cakes ran out …

How did we start our Easter holidays? In a queue so bad that it made the news. Thank you, Brexit and P&O Ferries

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The Guardian - UK

UK travellers face disruption as Easter holiday getaway begins

Airports report long waits because of Covid checks and staff shortages, as tourist traffic eases near Dover

Manchester Evening News

Dover roads 'free flowing' for tourists again following travel chaos near port

"All approach roads to the Port are free flowing for tourists with space in the Port for those arriving today. Travellers are asked to contact their ferry operator for their travel updates & sailing times.”

The Independent UK

Dover roads ‘free flowing’ for tourists again after travel chaos near port

Travellers have been advised to contact their ferry operator for updates and sailing times after gridlocked roads on Saturday became less congested.

The Independent UK

Traffic chaos at Port of Dover eases slightly, though delays likely to continue

Gridlocked roads in the area on Saturday were caused by disruption to cross-Channel ferries and bad weather.

The Guardian - UK

Doug Bannister, head of the Port of Dover: ‘We’re at the centre of Brexit. I signed up for that’

The US executive took over the port in 2019, in the heat of the debate about the EU. He’s not surprised it’s been a challenge

Wales Online

Dover ferry passengers face huge delays with miles of queuing motorway traffic and roads at a standstill

Roads around the port of Dover are gridlocked and there are miles of queuing lorries on motorways.

Manchester Evening News

Gridlock at Dover as P&O suspension and bad weather blamed

The Department for Transport said efforts were being made to minimise disruption

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