Experts confirm stone found in trucker’s £1 sea snail snack IS a rare Melo pearl worth £70,000 

Gemologists have confirmed that a small orange stone found by a Thai truck driver in his £1 sea snail snack is a rare Melo pearl that could be worth more than £70,000. Monthian Jansuk, 40, found the rare orange Melo pearl inside seafood after paying 50 baht (£1.20) for the ‘apple snail’ shell from a market … Read more

Truckers queue for up to eight HOURS for their border paperwork to be signed off

Truckers are queuing for up to eight hours for their border paperwork to be signed off at a beleaguered Brexit lorry park in Kent. Photos show drivers left waiting in the rain in a giant queue at the Waterbrook Park estate off the M20 in Ashford, which is being used for customs checks until the end of February. The … Read more

Lorry driver fears he will be stuck in UK for Christmas as stranded truckers call for mass testing

A stranded lorry driver waiting to get back into France following the country’s UK travel ban has said he has no idea if he will be able to get back to his family for Christmas. The lorry driver, one of the hundreds stuck at Dover after Emmanuel Macron shut the border on Sunday, says officials … Read more

Britain’s supermarket shelves may empty as France’s Covid ban on British truckers

Britain’s supermarket shelves may stand empty as France‘s Covid-19 ban on British lorries is set to stop Continental hauliers bringing in vital festive food supplies.  The Port of Dover closed to all accompanied vehicles leaving the UK tonight for the next 48 hours after France imposed an inbound travel ban following the mutant Covid-19 strain which … Read more

Truckers ‘face chaos at the UK border from January 1’ as the Brexit transition period ends

Deal or no deal, truckers ‘face chaos at the UK border from January 1’ as the Brexit transition period ends, bombshell report warns Passenger traffic for Dover ferries and the Channel Tunnel could suffer delays The National Audit Office said it expects ‘widespread disruption’ at UK borders It made clear the delays would not be … Read more