Train services have been suspended this afternoon after a lorry caught fire close to a level crossing.
The delivery truck – understood to belong to retailer Argos – burst into flames near to the railway line in Chartham, near Canterbury, at about 12.20…
Lorry drivers parking up overnight in the lay-bys around Kent and going to sleep in their cabs risk waking up to find their vehicle has been clamped.
Kent County Council has taken special powers that prohibit vehicles of over five tons parking in any s…
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Bishops slam conditions in Kent as ‘unacceptable’
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Rochester, Dover and Tonbridge have written a joint statement condemning the “unacceptable” conditions in Kent following the blockade of travel to France….
Lorry drivers held in vast queues in Kent since Sunday have clashed with police amid rising tensions whilethe archbishop of Canterbury demanded government action over the “unacceptable” situation.
Ministers said that, while testing for coronavir…
From residents being kept up all night by beeping HGVs, to Amazon drivers using lay-bys in Hoo as a toilet, tensions surrounding freight traffic in Kent are increasing as the Brexit deadline edges closer.
Some even protested about mass lorry parks bein…
From residents being kept up all night by beeping HGVs, to Amazon drivers using lay-bys in Hoo as a toilet, tensions surrounding freight traffic in Kent are increasing as the Brexit deadline edges closer.
Some even protested about mass lorry parks bein…
Kent County Council will have special powers to clamp illegally parked lorries from January 1.
For the first time, the authority will be able to clamp and issue penalty notices to drivers in Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe, Maidstone, …
| Road Transport[1] | Lorry driver charged with attempting to smuggle migrants including alleged child sex offender
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A Romanian lorry driver has been charged with attempting to smuggle …
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.
Nine migrants were discovered in the rear of his HGV, which was booked onto a ferry to Fra…
Romanian lorry driver, 48, ‘tries to smuggle migrants OUT of Britain twice including alleged child sex offender – with nine found in the back of his lorry booked onto a ferry to France’Sebastian Gabriel Podar, 48, was arrested in Dover on December 2 by…
Romanian Lorry Driver Caught Trying To Smuggle People OUT of The UK. image: Twitter
ROMANIAN Lorry Driver Caught Trying To Smuggle People OUT of The UK.
A Romanian lorry driver has been charged with attempting to smuggle migrants out of the UK includ…
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Kent could become the “toilet of England” in less than eight weeks unless dedicated loos are provided for thousands of lorry drivers who could be held up in the county for hours by post-Brexit border checks, campaigners have warned.
They say Ken…
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