Stranded truck drivers ‘left with no water and single blocked toilet’

More than 1,500 lorries are backed up in Kent, while the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel remain closed to traffic leaving the country, with drivers facing a third night sleeping in their cabs.
Stranded truck drivers ‘left with no water and single blocked toilet’

Freight lorries lined up on the runway at Manston Airport (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Hundreds of truck drivers stuck in a lorry park near Dover have been left without water and the only toilet has been blocked, according to a fellow driver delivering supplies to them.

More than 1,500 lorries are backed up in Kent, while the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel remain closed to traffic leaving the country, with drivers facing a third night sleeping in their cabs.

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