we heard from simon at manston.inutes ago about scuffles involved, involving lorry drivers. they feel incredibly frustrated. some scuffles with police, as we can see from these still images arriving into us in the last couple of moments. a huge amount of frustration and there, i think, from the drivers about a lack of information, frustration at not being able to get home in time for christmas. but clearly, very disturbing scenes there as these scuffles emerged between the drivers and police officers. just another piece of breaking news to bring you. nowhere has extended its suspension of flights from britain by a further three days, according to the news agency mtv. let's pick up on the subject of travel. the netherlands has lifted its ban on travel from the uk. all passengers will need to show a negative test, carried out within 72 hours of arrival, and those who do make the trip will still be asked to quarantine for ten days. meanwhile, overnight the philippines, japan and south korea have become the latest count

drivers parked at the former manston airfield and on roads in kent are being tested for covid.e have tested negative, allowing them to cross the channel. three have tested positive. 0ur correspondent frankie mccamley has been in manston airfield for us, with the latest on the situation there. this is not the christmas thousands of drivers here were expecting. some have been stuck here at manston airfield for up to four days with no access to washing facilities and just portaloos dotted around the side of the airfield. we have heard a beeping protest as drivers are getting more and more frustrated. i have spoken to some who say theyjust want to be at home, some say they feel like this is a political protest and they are caught in the middle. you can see just behind me some local people are coming here, rallying together, trying to provide hot food and drinks to give these drivers just something on christmas day. every half an hour, we are seeing around a dozen lorries leave this site, take the ao—minute journey over to the port of dover. each have been tested negative, have test

simon jones in manston, on this former airport site in kent. simonjones in manston, thank you.e will be spending a fourth christmas since the grenfell fire tragedy still living in or owning flats covered in dangerous flammable cladding. among them nhs doctors and nurses who have had to deal with the global pandemic. the government is providing a £1.6 billion building safety fund to remove the cladding and says it wants costs to be affordable to leaseholders. for the last month, onejunior doctor has been recording a video diary of his experience. this is will martin's story. the metis building has 113 flats. i bought one in 2015. my name is will, i'm a junior doctor working on a covid ward in a hospital in the north west, and i am a leaseholder in a building that is affected by the cladding and fire safety scandal. i'm just going on to lunch break to grab a quick bite to eat. been on the wards this morning, and there's already an inbox full of stuff to do with cladding. a £7,000 a week bill for a fire safety patrol arrives. i'm angry that i even have to think about this at work,

we will open up manston airport, as you said, prime minister, although for the time being it won't beeady because we were planning for the end of the transition period. one other development as well as we will use the movable barrier which has been constructed on the m20, and that will enable us to set up a co ntraflow, will enable us to set up a contraflow, something that would normally take a month to do, in a few hours overnight, enabling traffic to flow in both directions on the motorway, that is part of operation brock is a post operation stack which many people would have heard about over the years. so this is what might happen in severe weather conditions or if there is a strike in calais, something that might cause several weeks of description, but that is what we have done to date and as we seek to resolve the overall issue. . transport secretary grant shapps on the prime minister with that latest downing street briefing. fiona will be hit with the news at six in just a couple of minutes, but first let's check out the weather with luiz lear. hello there. monday was a day of m

the border to france may have finally reopened but this morning angry drivers left the manston lorrye they'd been sleeping in their cabs to vent their anger. they'd been stuck in the uk for days, they'd been promised a coronavirus tests. they say they still don't know when they will get out of here. the police are here now in numbers on the outskirts of manston airport but what they can't do is answer the one question that hauliers desperately want to know, and that is when they're going to get out of here and go home. police? police from three days told us that testing will be started soon but they don't know why. . .when. they don't know when and that's the point why the people are protesting because wejust want to make a test and go straight home. in one day, it's christmas. we are here three day, we are very tired, we stay in the cars, we don't have a lot of food, no money... it's not very good. some may now face a longer wait to get home. this shows the scale of the problem — thousands of lorries parked up on a former runway half an hour from the port of dover. dover itself has

he added that manston airport is now empty and lorries should no longer head there.t pictures we're getting from manston airport, and you can see that the congestion has indeed eased, compared to the gridlock we saw earlier in the week. over 8,000 hgvs have passed over the border since 23 december. but around 1,600 lorries are still believed to be held up on the m20. lets get more on the news that one of the most notorious cold war spies — george blake — has died in moscow, aged ninety—eight. blake was a soviet double agent working in the british secret service. he was caught and jailed in 1960, but escaped from prison in london five years later and fled to the soviet union. let's go live to our moscow correspondent, steve rosenberg. an extraordinary double life, and a great spy story. but it was, it was said, responsible forthe great spy story. but it was, it was said, responsible for the deaths of dozens said, responsible for the deaths of d oze ns of said, responsible for the deaths of dozens of british agents? you hear different figures. some people even say hund

simonjones is at the manston airfield in kent for us.on is some distance from the port, how easily our vehicle is now flowing between the two? to be honest, we haven't seen any lorries leave this manston airport site at the moment. we have seen an increase in activity, there are a lot of people in high vizjacket over there. we have seen lorry drivers walk towards a tent over there, possibly to begin the testing process. we also understand officials have been going to each lorry, handing out these lateral flow tests where results are due to come back within about 30 to a0 minutes. lorries as far as the eye can see. 3800 lorries stacked up on this site. on top of that, another 1200 this site. on top of that, another i200 lorries on the m20, where we understand more testing sites are being handed out. the reality is, this backlog will take a long time to shift and that is why there has been frustrations from the drivers here and protesters have been trying to block the entrance to the port. these are drivers who are fed up with the situatio

it's going to take a number of days to unwind the problems in manston and the backlog.have even begun to think about that. what do you think was the motivation from the french for the band ? think was the motivation from the french for the band?” think was the motivation from the french for the band? i don't think this is about brexit and trout up the this was a public health issue, andi the this was a public health issue, and i remember from the this was a public health issue, and i rememberfrom being an ambassador in france that the issue was precaution in anything to do with public health is very deeply rooted. french ministers went to jaila rooted. french ministers went to jail a couple of decades ago for failing to do that. i am sure this was a reaction to the very dramatic announcement we had in the uk on saturday of a rapidly spreading variant of the virus, and it's taken a few days to work out a solution which allows freight to move. are you considerate logistics of testing so many drivers? i am. i am glad the cupboard have an emergency service up cupboard have

manston is the government's primary holding area it was designed to cope with any disruption that might have been caused by breck's it from the accounts of those parked here and now it is failing its 1st real test there are toilets but is a dirty not working. we have no food we have no water yesterday. or got food but it was just something. and we don't know when we. can get home from from that airport here to there were confrontations with police 2 people detained as frustration led to scuffles again the lack of information and organization have left the drive is desperate the government says testing has begun manston but not enough we have today sitting here and then now they say yes we don't have to. because we're stuck on the way. yeah the car is stuck you. have one way here. and we don't know. the u.k. government says it will take a few days to clear the backlog of vehicles christmas for many here is going to be a deeply miserable experience paul brennan al-jazeera over meanwhile large parts of england are being put under even tougher restrictions from saturday is a more contagious

unlike the drivers at manston, they are not in touch with what has been going on.told is now beginning to start here. people here say they don't know what they're going to do. they say they don't know how to get past to get onto the ferries because they can't go back. both sides of the road here are completely blocked. it is a difficult situation. we have heard from the leader of dover council. he said he doesn't see how everyone here will be able to get across the channel to get there in time for christmas even when the port is open again. very difficult times. people in dover are volunteering. there are stands of people offering food, drinks and refreshments to the drivers, and it's sorely needed. the first trucks are now leaving the lorry park at manston airport. 0ur correspondent simonjones is there. vehicles beginning to move, easing the area behind you, simon. finally a sign of movement and in the last hour or so we have definitely seen activity increasing, and if you take activity increasing, and if you take a look behind me, a lot of people in high vizjacke

ido told me i must go back to manston again.. but at least some hope. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, says she made "a stupid mistake" by briefly removing her face covering while at a funeral wake, in breach of her own government's coronavirus rules. she was pictured by the scottish sun newspaper standing talking to three people inside at a social distance, but without wearing a mask. 0ur scotland reporter alexandra mackenzie joins us from glasgow. alexandra, what has the reaction been? both politically and from the public? this is an embarrassing mistake by the first minister nicola sturgeon. the photograph was printed in the sun newspaper last night. it shows the first minister on friday after a funeral wake in edinburgh. she is standing at one table talking to three of the people at another table. she is socially distanced, but crucially is not wearing a facemask. in hospitality settings in scotland, it is mandatory to wear a facemask unless you are sitting down. she has broken her own government's covid rules. we

but as grant shapps says now, manston is now empty. lorries should no longer had their pleas.cretary. one of the most notorious cold war spies — george blake — has died in moscow, aged 98. blake was a soviet double agent working in the british secret service. he was caught and jailed in 1960, but escaped from prison in london five years later and fled to the soviet union. edward lucas who is a security expert and the author of the new cold war said george blake is enormously important in the history of espionage. well, blake was really enormously important, i think — ranking along with the traitors like kim philby in terms of the damage done to british and american attempts to spy on the soviet empire during the 1950s. and it was notjust that he was in a position where he could do a lot of damage. after he'd been sentenced for 42 years — allegedly one for every agent he betrayed — he then was able to escape from a supposedly high security prison. he was smuggled to east germany and then spent the rest of his life in moscow. in a way, sort of cocking a snook at the brits who'd

they are being redirected to manston airfield while the french border is closed to lorries carrying goodsperation brock, a contraflow layout intended to keep the traffic on the m20 motorway to the coast moving, was also introduced overnight. the european union has said that it's up to the individual member states to decide what restrictions to place on travellers from britain, and how long to keep them in place. there is no certainty yet on when vehicles will be able to cross from the uk to france, but the government has said that work continues at pace. caroline davies, bbc news. let's go to dover now — our correspondent there this morning is simon jones. murnin, simon heard from the downing street news conference yesterday they were talking about 170 lorries waiting in the area, barely now we know there are many hundreds more, so know there are many hundreds more, so tell the viewers exactly where you are, first of all? i am currently near the entrance of the port of dover and as you can see, lorries pretty much parked everywhere. we have had an update from the home secretary this morni

the border to france may have finally reopened, but this morning angry drivers left the manston lorryeen sleeping in their cabs to vent their anger. they'd been stuck in the uk for days. they'd been promised coronavirus tests. but they say they still don't know when they will get out of here. the police are here now in numbers on the outskirts of manston airport, but what they can't do is answer the one question that hauliers desperately want to know, and that is when they're going to get out of here and go home. police? police from three days told us that testing will be started soon but they don't know why. . .when. they don't know when and that's the point why the people are protesting because wejust want to make the test and go straight to home. in one day, it's christmas. we are here three day, we are very tired, we stay in the cars, we don't have a lot of food, no money... it's not very good. some may now face a longer wait to get home. this shows the scale of the problem — thousands of lorries parked up on a former runway half an hour from the port of dover. dover itself has re

airport, still parked up up at manston airport, still parked up along the m20 this morning, there ise for some, andi is still a long wait in store for some, and i don't want to be the bearer of bad news on christmas, but some of these lorry drivers will not be making it home in time for christmas and it is going to be some time before things here get back to some kind of normality. it is interesting among the groups brought in to try to help the lorry drivers a bunch of medics from poland who came to provide testing. to provide testing. the queen is expected to focus on the effects of the pandemic in her christmas broadcast this afternoon. for the first time in more than 30 years, she and the duke of edinburgh are spending the festive period at windsor — instead of sandringham. 0ur royal correspondent daniela relph is at windsor castle. you have also been deprived there for of the pictures of queen arriving for a church service, the queues of small children delivering posies and presents to the monarch, and the usual excitement. is there anything happening, are people aware even the

but here at manston we've seen a steady stream of lorries emerge from that gate behind me. who have tested negative for coronavirus. they will now head down to the port of dover and be allowed to get on a ferry and finally return home. as you hear, sounding their horn. some drivers have been winding their windows down, waving. it is relief for them finally to have the prospect of going home. but despite the fact that some are leaving this site and testing is under way, yesterday the backlog of lorries actually got higher because this site became totally full, almost 4,000 lorries here. another 2,000 lorries parked up on the m20. so more hauliers have been heading towards kent, hearing that the border with france is open now. but they are getting told to join the back of the queue, and for them, it's unlikely they will be home in time for christmas. donald trump has issued another round of highly controversial pardons as his term in office draws to a close. mr trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, and his long—time adviser, roger stone, are among the latest 26 peop

this is manston airfield and as you can see, there's just been a steady stream of lorries coming pasteen standing here. it is looking like over there, it's already filling up. some in the industry worried that as many as 6,000—7,000 lorries were heading to dover today. along the route in, miles from the port, lorries tucked into lay—bys or parking lots. by the side of the road, we meet hameed from turkey. he showed us his bread, yoghurt, eggs and tea he carries with him to keep him going. with a few words of english, he told us he's come from leeds and got stuck here on his way home. many of the drivers here now have empty lorries after dropping their food and goods off for christmas. everything was ok. .. these drivers arrived on sunday. they're trying to get home to bosnia and italy. we were hoping to go back to our homes for new year with our family, to celebrate, but now, it's not going to happen, not this year. we don't have a bathroom, we don't have anything, you know? we are stuck here, maybe for days. shouting. by this evening, frustrations were starting to show, with a sponta

hundreds of trucks now sit in this giant lorry park, in what used to be manston airport, while othersg wherever they can find space. this polish driver was among hundreds waiting for news. it's a disasterfor me, you know? it's the first time i'm here in the uk and, like a driver, and it's... it's terrible. as i said, if i knew one day before that... hey, guys, idon't know, europe, uk, border will close in one day — i would never have come here. do you think you'll get home for christmas? i don't know. i hope but i don't think so. it's not clear precisely how many lorries are now parked up around kent. concerns are growing about the welfare of the stranded drivers, forced to spend days confined to their cabs, farfrom home. the welfare of these drivers should be top of our minds at the moment. we should be treating them much better than we are because they are essential workers that keep our supermarkets stacked, keep our manufacturing sector working. but also, get our british goods to market around the world, earning us pounds and getting us jobs here at home, in britain. the governmen

this is manston airfield and as you can see, there's just been a steady stream of lorries coming pasteen standing here. it is looking like over there, it's already filling up. some in the industry worried that as many as 6,000—7,000 lorries were heading to dover today. along the route in, miles from the port, lorries tucked into lay—bys or parking lots. by the side of the road, we meet hameed from turkey. he showed us his bread, yoghurt, eggs and tea he carries with him to keep them going. with a few words of english, he told us he's come from leeds and got stuck here on his way home. many of the drivers here now have empty lorries after dropping their food and goods off for christmas. everything was ok. .. these drivers arrived on sunday. they're trying to get home to bosnia and italy. we were hoping to go back to our homes for new year with our family, to celebrate, but now, it's not going to happen, not this year. we don't have a bathroom, we don't have anything, you know? we are stuck here, maybe for days. shouting. by this evening, frustrations were starting to show, with a spont

we are just across the road from the manston lorry park and everywhere you look on the side roads yous parked up, driving in today along the lay—by boys and lorries everywhere and you can see as far as the eye can see. the transport secretary yesterday said clearing this is going to be a mammoth task and he wasn't lying because although we had the start yesterday of this testing that allows drivers to leave the uk if they get a negative test, the number of lorries caught up in all this has actually increased as hauliers have continued to head towards kent so at the moment in manston at the official lorry park we have around 4000 lorries parked up and also on the m 20 there are another 2000 so it gives you a sense of the scale of theissue it gives you a sense of the scale of the issue and another fly in the ointment is that as it stands, the port of dover shots on christmas day so there won't be any services and that could further delay people trying to get home and it means in reality that a lot of drivers like this are unlikely to get home in time for christmas. there are discussions

at manston, the drivers can do the test, white, and only then are they allowed to come down to the portin arteries come in here, there is the m2, and there are hundreds or thousands of lorries parked up on the m20, and that is a more difficult logistical task. some are being tested at the port, so they will be tested, then they have to wait 30—110 minutes before they are allowed to go on board the ferry. there will have to be in operation for some of them to be turned around, because drivers have failed the test. so it is a logistical nightmare, and you get the sense that the authorities here arejust doing their the sense that the authorities here are just doing their best to try to sort this out. we saw a little while earlier on, some nhs testers arriving in their vans, escorted by police, and even just arriving in their vans, escorted by police, and evenjust to get arriving in their vans, escorted by police, and even just to get the testis police, and even just to get the test is to report, of course, is very difficult. they have to have a police escort. there is gridlock of the town,

well this is not the christmas thousands of drivers stuck here at manston airport were expecting, somer four days with no access to washing facilities, now in the past ten minutes we have had a protest, i have just seen some locals passed food and drink under the fence to some of the drivers who are not going anywhere for some time. now every half an hour we are seeing round a dozen lorries leave the site, making their way a0 minutes to the port of dover, each of them will have tested negative to the coronavirus. they are carrying a letter signed by uk and french authorities to give them access to mainland europe. as you said 800 troops were drafted here to try and speed up the testing process, to try an get things moving and get people off the site, and since then it does seem to have worked. a lot of the roads in the area do seem to have cleared but things are not in fact back to normal yet and for many of the drivers stuck here in the queues, christmas is well and truly cancelled. thank you. apologies to viewers for the slight break up there on the line. the queen and prince philip

there is also an airfield called manston airfield thatis airfield called manston airfield that is noway that they have genuinely never seen anything like it. we do sometimes in the summers see a bit gridlock over the summer due to the weight of traffic, but this time, they are saying they have never seen this time, they are saying they have never seen anything like it. you can see a bit of traffic movement behind me, don't be fooled. that is not lorries going to border ferries. me, don't be fooled. that is not lorries going to borderferries. it is at freight park that they have created on the other side of the white cliffs which are over to my left and what they are now allowing some of the lorries to do, if they can take the containers off the back of their cabs, they are saying that you can go through and leave your containers there and drive back. the problem really is that the lorry drivers, they obviously can't take the goods out and leave them in abandon them. i have been talking to some of the lorry drivers here. most of them are continental drivers, they are trying to get back

manston is the government's primary holding area it was designed to cope with any disruption that might have been caused by breck's it from the accounts of those parked here and now it is failing its 1st real test the toilet but is a dirty not working. we have no food we have no water yesterday. organized food but it was just a hamburger some some some tapes and that's all and we don't know when we. can get to home from from that airport here to there were confrontations with police 2 people detained as frustration led to scuffles again the lack of information and organization have left the drive is desperate for the government says testing has begun manston but not enough we have today sitting here and then now they say yes we don't have to. because we're stuck on the way. yeah the car is stuck here is blocked they have one way here. and we don't know. the u.k. government says it will take a few days to clear the backlog of vehicles christmas for many here is going to be a deeply miserable experience paul brennan al-jazeera over. the u.s.s. suffered its 2nd deadliest day of the coronav

still parked up at manston airport, still parked up at manston airport, still parked up along the m20ack to some kind of normality louise. thank you bringing us normality louise. thank you bringing us up—to—date. thank you bringing us up—to—date. churches across the uk will be holding scaled back christmas celebrations today. the archbishop of canterbury has said elderly and vulnerable churchgoers should consider the risks and not feel obliged to go to church. even for those that do go, services will feel very different and many will be broadcast online. harry farley reports. (tx next) the darkness is deep, yet light penetrates this darkness. a homily to an empty building. midnight mass at westminster cathedral last night was streamed online, but members of the public were not allowed to attend. earlier, cardinalvincent nicholls presided at a afternoon service with strict social distancing in place. but staff feared the popular midnight mass service would attract crowds and moved it online. the pope will deliver his message indoors not from the balcony, and here at westminster cathedr

drivers clash with police at manston airfield, desperate to get tested, get out and get home.st, and then go straight to home. in one day it is christmas. we are in here three days, we are very tired. we stay in the cars. we don't have a lot of food, no money. it's not very well. you need to go to your lorry, they will come to your lorry and test each of you. this morning, the airfield was full. tests have started. but even a negative result means lorries have to navigate this to leave the country. the port of dover's chief executive isn't sure when the backlog can be cleared. the key thing is to get the approaches to the port clear. that's got to be number one. and then to be able to produce a flow rate into the port of negative tests, that allows us to keep the port full and the ferries full. and then we can process things very, very quickly. horns blare. in dover, you can hear the frustration. small acts of kindness in the queue. thank you. free drinks handed out, and volunteers opened the beach toilets. at the end of the day, it shouldn't be just down to the local communit

lorries finally on their way, but many drivers are still left behind here at manston airfield, and desperatecause france make a new law, and it's impossible to come back to europe. lorries still stacked up on the motorway, and dotted around the county. more gridlock in dover, too. a christmas this town won't forget. but things are improving. lorries on the final approach to the ferries. but it's slow going, and over here, these drivers are still waiting for covid tests. all this is going to take a while to clear. they're boosting testing capacity. these are french firefighters. they arrived today to lend a hand. the key thing is making sure that we get the testing going properly, and what that means is that we're achieving the through points that will keep the ferries full, and we're not hitting those levels yet. until we hit those levels, we can't make an estimate of how long it's going to take. and tonight, more british soldiers deployed in kent to deploy rapid covid tests to drivers, to try to clear the backlog on this crucial trade route. emma simpson, bbc news, dover. stay with us on bb

they are being redirected to manston airfield while the french border is closed to lorries carrying goods 0peration block, a contraflow layout intended 0peration brock, a contraflow layout intended to keep the traffic on the m20 motorway to the coast moving, was also introduced overnight. the european union has said that it's up to the individual member states to decide what restrictions to place on travellers from britain, and how long to keep them in place. there is no certainty yet on when vehicles will be able to cross from the uk to france, but the government has said that work continues at pace. caroline davies, bbc news. 0ur news correspondent simonjones is at the port of dover for us this morning. there has been confusion about how many lorries are stuck with different figures offered by the transport secretary last night and by highways england. yesterday, at the news conference, borisjohnson said he thought there were around 170 lorries parked on the 20 motorway in operation stack. last night the department for transport said the figure had gone up to more than 1000 but driving

the airfield at manston in kent has been made a temporary lorry park for the hundreds of vehicles here are again just a section of the true scale of the problem and a. scarcity of food in some of 3 facilities is also creating tensions the member of parliament for the denver branch fronts for this crisis i just think the way in which french government reacted was just really on helpful i mean that you can the french government the haulage industry the ferry industry they've worked handing glove over the last few months since trans since the virus started to make sure that it's managed and i think that's what should have happened here. as night fell over the rain iraq to drive a staged a blockade of their own. many of these truckers and van drivers now facing the 3rd night stranded here tempers are clearly starting to fray they were occupied the roundabout which is here at the entrance to the port behind me they've blocked the traffic there is a long snaking line of lorries in the direction the police are trying to restore order but for the moment they're not being successful. my childre

under police escort, groups of lorries were guided from their holding point at the disused manston airfieldested negative and were cleared to go. horn blares. the transport secretary grant shapps said over 10,000 lateral flow tests had been carried out on drivers in kent and 24 were positive. more than 4,500 lorries have crossed the channel, but that leaves thousands still to make the journey. for some drivers, that means a christmas stuck behind a wire fence, instead of at home. tradition! whole people — whole family stay on table. eat. relax. music. no? i stay here. local people are helping out with hot food and sympathy. because we live in dover, we wanted to do something — even though it's just a little something — and just spread a little bit of christmas cheer and take some hot mince pies and sausage rolls to people who probably or maybe would like them. the cross—channel ferries have been sailing as soon as they have a full load of lorries. they're not usually as busy as this on christmas day, but this is not a normal christmas day in dover. andy moore, bbc news. eu ambassadors have

there are thousands of hauliers still parked up at manston airport, still parked up along the m20 thisit in store for many of them, and i don't want to be the bearer of bad news on christmas, but some of these lorry drivers will not make it home in time for christmas and it will be some time before things here get back to some kind of normality. lets get some of the day's other news now. us authorities have announced that passengers arriving on flights from the uk will need to test negative for coronavirus before departure. this is the latest restriction imposed due to a new covid—19 variant. the strain is believed to be more transmissible and has led nations around the world to close their borders to travellers from the uk. democrats in the us congress have failed in their attempts to increase direct covid relief payments to americans from $600 to $2,000. the increase was demanded by president donald trump on tuesday but republicans in congress have blocked the change. president trump has refused to say if he will sign the bill if the payments are not increased. the former japanese th

drivers clash with police at manston airfield, desperate to get tested, get out and get home. they will come to your lorry and test each of you. this morning, the airfield was full. tests have started. but even a negative result means lorries have to navigate this to leave the country. the port of dover's chief executive isn't sure when the backlog can be cleared. the key thing is to get the approaches to the port clear. that's got to be number one. and then to be able to produce a flow rate into the port of negative tests, that allows us to keep the port full and the ferries full. and then we can process things very, very quickly. horns blare. in dover, you can hear the frustration. small acts of kindness in the queue. thank you. free drinks handed out, and volunteers opened the beach toilets. the end of the day, it shouldn't be just down to the local community rallying round together. we live here. the government, the local councillors, our mp who we haven't heard from at all yet, they should be doing something. but people already exhausted by tier 4 restrictions are exasper