Holiday nightmare as Dover chaos and rail strikes add to delays
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Travellers through the Port of Dover are waiting up to two hours to get through border controls, officials have warned, as rail strikes hit the country. “Our advice is to check before you travel.” Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, has written to transport secretary Mark Harper, telling him to “get back to work” and sit down with rail unions and operators to end the strikes. Labour said the transport secretary has not met either of the two rail unions at the centre of the rail strikes since before Christmas last year.
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