After the battering of #StormCiara, Southeastern Railway says the vast majority of routes are open with a normal service, though they've made a few changes listed below.
DFDS says sailings from Dover have resumed, but they are expecting further disruption today. #StormCiara
There's still a yellow warning of wind right along the south coast - until 7pm. #StormCiara
Gatwick Airport is warning that some flights will have delays and cancellations. #StormCiara
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The boss of the Port of Dover tells MPs he’s concerned about new checks to enter the EU due to come into force next May: ‘We do not have a solution that’s going to work in a very busy ferry terminal’.
Doug Bannister says it could take a car of four people ten minutes to get through the new biometric checks at Dover.
New technology is going to be trialled in Calais in the next couple of weeks.
The POA union raises serious concerns about the situation at the migrant-processing centre at Manston, saying the target of holding people for up to two days is now ‘purely aspirational’, with people now on the site for up a week.
POA: ‘We have had reports of incidents escalating, altercations between residents boiling over and resulting in injury with police having to be called to the site to investigate assaults and provide support to staff.’
Manston: ‘The POA believe the failure to relieve this pressure sits at the highest level with a government that has not provided a coherent response at pace to the increase in numbers of migrants crossing the Channel and the strain that is putting on the facility.’
The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has announced what she’s describing as the ‘biggest overhaul of the UK’s asylum system in decades’. She says access to the system will be based on genuine need of refuge, not on the ability to pay people smugglers.
For the first time, how people enter the UK is to directly impact the status of their asylum claim and right to stay, under plans unveiled by the government.
The government says it will make every effort ‘to remove those who enter the UK illegally having travelled through a safe country in which they could and should have claimed asylum.’
Department for Transport confirms that anyone arriving into the UK from Spain from midnight tonight will have to self-quarantine for 14 days.
The Foreign Office is now advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain.
People already in Spain can stay for the remainder of their holiday, but will have to self-isolate on their return. This also applies to the Canary and Balearic Islands.
The Coastguard is coordinating a search-and-rescue operation after reports of a man overboard from a vessel off Margate Harbour. Lifeboats from Ramsgate and Margate have been sent, along with the helicopter from Lydd and a police RHIB.
A Royal Navy ship is helping in the search for a man believed to have gone overboard off Margate.
The search for a man who went overboard from a tanker off Margate has ended - after a body was found in the water by the Margate lifeboat.
102 migrants crossed the Channel today in small boats - a new record.
After a record number of migrants arrived today by boat, the Security Minister Brandon Lewis said: 'We are tackling illegal migrant crossings on all fronts. And it’s working. The majority of migrants who attempt this journey are being stopped'.
86 males and 16 females arrived by boat today. The Home Office says seven of them presented themselves as children.