15-hour Dover waits hit travellers

A ferry company has urged UK and French authorities to ensure there is no repeat of the huge delays at Dover.

Some people were forced to wait for 15 hours on gridlocked roads to reach the Kent port over the weekend.

Helen Deeble, chief executive of P&O Ferries, said holidaymakers were delayed for “unacceptable lengths of time” and insisted the situation “must never be allowed to happen again”.