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Government reveals plans for post-Brexit border

The Cabinet Office has published a draft Border Target Operating Model, setting out the Government’s new approach to importing into Great Britain that will be progressively introduced from the end of October. It proposes a new approach to security controls, for all imports, and to sanitary and phytosanitary controls (for live animals, animal products, plants and plant products) at the border. It sets out how these will be simplified, digitised and, ... [+]

…and plans 27-acre truck-holding park at Ashford

The government is planning to set up a 27-acre holding area for trucks on the outskirts of Ashford, according to press reports. The site at Sevington on the A2070, close to junction 10a on the M20, had previously been earmarked for an Amazon warehouse. It appears to be a replacement for ... [+]