Holidaymakers faced delays of up to two hours just getting to the Port of Dover on Saturday (23 May) owing to congestion in the area, the BBC reports, and a further more than two hours clearing the new EU Entry-Exit System (EES) checks, which took full effect last month.
France's Police Aux Frontieres (PAF) confirmed it invoked Article 9 of the EES regulations to suspend the new digital and biometric checks following a request from the Port of Dover, which described the backlog as a "challenging situation". Temperatures topped 30C on Saturday as the UK recorded its first heatwave of the year.
