Dover delays ease after traffic 'buffer zone' cleared

Delays astatine the Port of Dover person eased, with postulation tailbacks present cleared aft a play of disruption.

A "buffer zone" wrong the larboard has been emptied of coaches, ferry operators said successful overnight updates.

Some radical had reported waiting 17 hours astatine Dover. Port officials blamed delays connected dilatory borderline processing and much coaches than had been expected.

Their latest update - issued connected Sunday evening - said each postulation had yet managed to participate the port.

Disruption was archetypal reported connected Friday, with atrocious upwind taking immoderate of the blasted from the ferry operators.

The larboard repeatedly apologised for the situation, which saw a "critical incident" declared and affected galore holidaymakers' Easter getaways. Coach passengers were peculiarly hard-hit.

Border processing times person accrued sharply aft the UK near the European Union, question adept Simon Calder told BBC News connected Saturday.

He said things were "gumming up" arsenic each idiosyncratic passport had to beryllium inspected and stamped post-Brexit.

This presumption was rejected by the location secretary.

Appearing connected the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Suella Braverman blamed a "combination of factors" - including a precocious measurement of coaches.

But the authorities needed to get a "grip" connected the situation, Labour's shadiness levelling-up caput Lisa Nandy told Sky News.

Many coaches that got stuck successful Dover were carrying schoolchildren from crossed the UK connected schoolhouse trips abroad.

Late connected Sunday, BBC News received reports of coachloads of children inactive waiting to transverse the Channel having arrived astatine Dover precocious the erstwhile day.

Rob Howard, a teacher from Dorset travelling to Italy by manager with a radical of schoolchildren, said his radical had decided to crook astir aft waiting for much than 17 hours.