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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Quinn and Daniel Boffey

Police overlooked tip-off day before far-right agitators blocked Dover roads

Men wearing all-black clothes that cover their arms and legs, as well as balaclavas, stand blocking a road in Dover
The far-right unrest in Dover involved hundreds of black-clad masked men standing in the middle of roads and led to access to the port of Dover being blocked for several hours. Photograph: Ay_audits/Youtube

Police were told the night before far-right agitators blocked roads into Dover that those involved had converged on a village 18 miles away and planned to use it as a launchpad, it has emerged.

People in Preston-next-Wingham told of how hundreds of men had started to arrive in the village of just over 920 residents on Friday afternoon and in effect “took over” the village.

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