COVID-19 testing for HGV drivers is underway. Once you have been tested, it will take upward of 40 minutes to obtain a result. If your result is negative...
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An extra are to be sent to Kent on Christmas Day to help clear a backlog of thousands of lorries waiting to cross to France. About 6,000 lorries, Private...
For the following regions: London & South East England South West England Wales Storm Bella will bring disruption to travel and utilities over parts of...
Limited resumption of the movement of people from the United Kingdom to France subject to negative health tests sensitive to the variant At midnight on Sunday...
Guests at an Islington house party were each handed fixed penalty notices this week after willfully breaching the coronavirus rules. Officers from the Met were...
Last Friday, there were 16,022 cases, and 521 deaths – with a 460.3 seven-day average. Coronavirus-linked deaths in the UK, within 28 days of a...
48-year-old Sebastian Gabriel Podar was arrested as part of a National Crime Agency operation at the port of Dover in the early hours of Wednesday 2 December...
A woman from Walsall and the boyfriend she used as a courier to import firearms for organised crime groups have been jailed for over 23 years. A National...
Long queues have formed on the M20 in Kent again at the entrance of the Freight terminal for the Channel Tunnel. Lorry drivers were left queuing while French...
More than forty people have been fined after attempting to cross the Channel since the weekend despite several warnings to heed Government regulations and...
Kent Police officers at the Port of Dover and the Channel Tunnel engaged with more than fifty people between Thursday 12 November and Sunday 15 November...
Gitanas Eitmanavicius, 48, from Kaunas, Lithuania, initially told National Crime Agency investigators that he thought the packages were tobacco and food, and...
A suspect is to appear in court charged in connection with an assault in Dover. Kent Police was called to a disturbance at a property in Maison Dieu Road...
A man has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for money laundering offences after being caught trying to smuggle almost £500,000 out of the UK within a...
Jack Moore, 30, and Thomas Wood, 44, were stopped by officers acting on intelligence in Limekiln Street in March 2020. In their van, officers found three...
Two men have been charged by Kent Police after more than £150,000 in cash is reported to have been found concealed in two vehicles at the Port of Dover. ...
A county line drug dealer caught with a large amount of cash after his car was seen leaving Kent has been jailed. Joseph Odoi, 19, was arrested in east London...
Witnesses are sought after a man was seriously injured in Dover. It was reported that the 19-year-old victim was assaulted by another man in Biggin...
Current potential measures to manage traffic flow in Kent are Dover TAP, Operation Stack and potentially the activation of HGV holding areas at Manston Airport...
A suspect has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm after a man was seriously injured in Dover. Kent Police was called at 9.40am on Tuesday 6 October...
The man, aged 24 from Birmingham, was stopped at the Port of Dover on 21 June 2020 after being unable to account for having more than £40,000 in his...
The A20 in Kent near the Port of Dover is currently closed west/London bound between the A256 and the B2011 due to a colllision. Lane 1 (of 2) is also closed...
A pre-planned demonstration in Shorncliffe has concluded. Around 250 people gathered outside Napier Barracks from around 11am on Saturday 17 October 2020...
Police fire and Ambulance are at the scene of a crash on the #A20 between Western Docks and Aycliffe roundabouts in #Dover. The road is likely to be closed...
A plan to use nets to stop dinghies carrying migrants across the English Channel is being considered by the government, it has been reported. Dan...
Whilst the number of cases in the district is lower than the England average, and nowhere near the levels in the north of England, we have seen a rise over the...
Police are appealing for information following a serious assault in Dover. Kent Police was called at 9.40am on Tuesday 6 October 2020 following a report that...
A person has been airlifted after a stabbing on Beaconsfield Road in Dover this morning. The casualty has been flown to a London Hospital in a serious...
Two suspects have been charged following an alleged robbery in Dover town centre. Kent Police was called to a report that a man had been assaulted by a group...
A man who was driving a lorry load of beer into the UK has been jailed for six years and nine months after he tried to smuggle Class A drugs worth more than a...
A lorry driver arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle migrants OUT of the UK has been charged following an NCA investigation. A HGV was stopped by NCA...
As part of partnership work to crackdown on fly-tipping, Dover District Council teamed up with Kent Police’s Rural Task Force on Tuesday for a day of...
A lorry driver has been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling offences following a National Crime Agency-led operation in Kent. An HGV was stopped by NCA...
Plans for 135 new homes on the remainder of the former Buckland paper mill site in Dover have been submitted to Dover District Council by Homes England, the...
Operation Stack is due to be implemented today due to industrial action in Calais we can reveal. Operation Stack is a procedure that uses parts of the M20 to...
Ferry company DFDS says industrial action by French unions in Calais means services between Dover and Calais have been suspended. Ferries services to and from...
Michael Gove has confirmed that a de facto Brexit border is to be introduced for lorry drivers entering Kent to travel on to the EU. The minister for the...
Two men have been arrested after around a tonne of cocaine, concealed within a consignment of fruit, was seized at Dover, as part of a joint Police Scotland...
Detectives investigating a suspicious bus fire in Shepherdswell, near Dover, are appealing for witnesses to come forward. Kent Police was called to assist...
Two suspected burglars have been charged after goods were stolen from an opticians shop in Dover. Kent Police was contacted on Tuesday 14 July 2020 and...
A school bus was set on fire by children around 3:45pm in Siberts Close, Shepherdswell, near Dover today. It’s understood that girls set hand sanitiser or...
As lockdown measures continue to adjust, including new restrictions on social gatherings this week, DDC continues to work with partners to help and support...
A man who carried out two assaults in Dover has been jailed for more than two years. James Stott assaulted the same man in the town in March and then in...
Operation Stack is no longer in place. All junctions of the M20 previously closed by Operation Stack have now been opened.There may still be residual delays in...
Eythorne Road in Shepherdswell near Dover has been blocked after a HGV brought down power cables and two conifers, The driver has made claim that he was trying...
Operation Stack is now in place on the coast-bound carriageway of the M20 between Junctions 8 and 9 following a police operation at Kent ports in which all...
An investigation has been launched after cash believed to total around £60,000 was found inside a car at the Channel Tunnel. Officers seized the cash...
A former Member of Parliament found guilty of sexually assaulting two women has been jailed for two years. Charlie Elphicke, 49, of St Margaret’s Bay, Dover...