Stranded on a coach for 14 hours without food and only one bottle of water.
That was the nightmare situation a group of pupils from a South Tyneside school had to endure when they became caught up in travel chaos in Dover over the weekend, en route to their ski trip in Austria.
Coach passengers experienced huge delays to enter the Port of Dover be processed and board ferries, causing the port to declare a critical incident on Friday. And while it was announced that the backlog had been cleared by Monday morning, many were forced to miss part of their holiday or cancel altogether.
