Army to take over Covid testing for hauliers trapped near Dover

Thousands of drivers braced to spend Christmas Day in their cabs as French firefighters also sent to help

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Thousands of international lorry drivers are braced to spend Christmas Day cooped up in their cabs near Dover as it was announced that hundreds of soldiers would join the repatriation effort to get them home.

It also emerged that a team of French firefighters have been sent to Dover to help clear huge queues of lorries waiting to cross the Channel after the British government failed to provide sufficient coronavirus testing capacity.