Furious passengers stranded for hours at Dover complain they're just fed with crisps and chocolate as children forced to sleep at a service station
A critical incident was declared at the port on Friday night due to bad traffic and long delays at French border control, but delays continued into Saturday.The port has taken aim at French border processing as it apologised for hours-long queues as the Easter break began.
One parent, Rosie, told LBC she had been waiting for 13 hours, and had to sleep on a packed coach of 60 people with her children overnight."We were given a packet of crisps, a chocolate bar and a bottle of water at about 9 o'clock," she said. She said her children's fellow pupils at their school were on a trip to France that same day and had to sleep in a service station."There was a fight at the back of the bus about the recline of the seats into them," she said.Rosie said she had made her family take the coach because she is an environmental campaigner and wanted to reduce their carbon footprint, so she did not want to fly.
"Through the ferry operators and the port, food and drink has been provided to those coach passengers caught up in the border queues. We offer our sincere apologies for the prolonged delays that people have endured and continue to work with all of our partners to get all passengers on their way as quickly as possible."
DFDS UK Updates tweeted at 7.07pm, that services to France were running with delays of "up to 2 hours due to the winds in the channel".
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