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Holidays start with monster snarl-up at Channel port

MOTORISTS heading to Dover today will be hoping the queues at the Channel port have abated after a weekend of travel misery.

Labour has demanded urgent government action after tailbacks through Kent started to build on Friday night, causing 14-hour hold-ups for some travellers.

Police blamed the jams on delays to French border checks at the port in light of recent terror attacks coupled with a “vast volume of holiday traffic.”

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