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

Details passed to Kent police after far-right activists heard in pub boasting about going to to Dover to attack Muslims'

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.