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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Ross Lydall

Getaway chaos as ferry passengers face six-hour security waits

The summer holiday getaway turned to chaos on Friday when a “critical incident” was declared at Dover and passengers were warned they faced six-hour delays getting through passport control.

Severe problems were said to have been caused by a shortage of French border control officials, who check travel documents in Britain before allowing passengers to board channel ferries.

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