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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

DFDS Ferries invents own post-Brexit passport rules to wreck family birthday holiday

Four years after the post-Brexit passport rules for travel to the EU took effect, a leading ferry line wrongly turned away a family from a birthday voyage from Newcastle to Amsterdam because staff made up their own rules.

Laura Drinkeld and her two young children arrived at the DFDS North Shields terminal on 7 March for a trip to the Netherlands to celebrate her daughter’s seventh birthday.

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