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The government is still pressing ahead with its plan to partially reopen schools next week but the decision is set to be discussed today.
Coronavirus vaccines have been issued to more frontline workers as another hospital started rolling out the jab.
Hauliers left stranded in Kent can now get tested at a race circuit after the Army opened a makeshift facility.
Two train companies worked late into the night on Christmas Eve to deliver food to stranded lorry drivers.
More than 10,000 coronavirus tests have now been carried out on lorry drivers stranded in Kent, with only 24 testing positive.
Thousands of lorry drivers are celebrating the most unusual Christmas Day... with the army on the M20.
As truckers spend Christmas Day stranded 1,100 troops are helping get them home - with one posting a heartbreaking message from Manston.
Drivers have reacted with relief but also aired their frustration as they slowly head home after days of chaos.
A former shopping centre toy shop is being used to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
Half of schools have been struck down by cases of coronavirus, it's been revealed as critics slammed the government's "chaotic" response next term.
German lorry drivers stranded in Britain when France closed its border with the UK were sent to the Isle of Sheppey to be tested for coronavirus.
The bins and streets around Dover port have been just as jammed as the roads, but as the stacked traffic starts to clear, cleaning begins.
Eligible businesses could benefit from grants of up to £5,000 after a council extended its Covid-19 support scheme.
Vehicles are being parked on side roads and left on double-yellow lines as hauliers wait to be seen at a Covid-19 testing site.
Drivers stranded at the Port of Dover look set to receive tests despite official guidance insisting they must travel to Manston or the M20.
Residents fear they may not receive Christmas cards until the new year after a Covid outbreak among postal workers put a stop to their deliveries.
The newly discovered and fast-spreading strain of coronavirus originated in a person from Kent, scientists believe.
A soldier helped his key worker sister take her coronavirus test while on deployment back in his home town.
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