and it can take up to five hours' drive from maidstone. i think people would be pretty horrified by that. yeah, that's very bad traffic. so with two extra minutes per vehicle, dr han predicts 30 miles ofjams and a maidstone to doverjourney time of five hours. and what is shocking about the research result is that the check time is as little as two minutes of check time increase, applied to each individual vehicle, could lead to hours of traffic delays and tens of miles of queueing on the motorway. norman ives runs his own haulage company based at folkestone and has been in the businesss for 30 years. he delivers food to supermarkets to tight deadlines, so any traffic jams are hugely worrying to him. if he misses his delivery slot, he has to book another and that could mean a wait that seriously disrupts business. sometimes that can be one or two days waiting. we could potentially end up losing several days a week productivity. just from a two minute delay at the border? indeed. how worrying is that for you? it's very worrying. it's importa

and it can take up to five hours' drive from maidstone. i think people would be pretty horrified by that. yeah, that's very bad traffic. so with two extra minutes per vehicle, dr han predicts 30 miles ofjams and a maidstone to doverjourney time of five hours. and what is shocking about the research result is that the check time is as little as two minutes of check time increase, applied to each individual vehicle, could lead to hours of traffic delays and tens of miles of queueing on the motorway. norman ives runs his own haulage company based at folkestone and has been in the businesss for 30 years. he delivers food to supermarkets to tight deadlines, so any traffic jams are hugely worrying to him. if he misses his delivery slot, he has to book another and that could mean a wait that seriously disrupts business. sometimes that can be one or two days waiting. we could potentially end up losing several days a week productivity. just from a two minute delay at the border? indeed. how worrying is that for you? it's very worrying. it's importa

he joins us via webcam from maidstone. isn't disclosing the door after the horse has bolted for the government and the home office to ask police to review the use of baille? who should be owners really be on, the police oi’ be owners really be on, the police or the government to come up with a better framework? that is a good question. i think the framework that has been put in place is down. one has been put in place is down. one has to remember why it was put in place —— the framework is sound. it was because people were being kept on bailfor lengthy was because people were being kept on bail for lengthy periods, was because people were being kept on bailfor lengthy periods, and what was put in place was a scheme that required justification by the police for people being on bail. it didn't mean the police didn't have to put anyone on bail. if the conditions are proportionate and necessary , conditions are proportionate and necessary, then people will be put on bail. but it appears that the police have reacted again

i am in kent, just south of maidstone. we realised there was a problem when the train stopped for quite a lengthy period. shortly after we we re lengthy period. shortly after we were told there was a train in front that had trouble going up a kill —— up that had trouble going up a kill —— up the hill because it could not get... up the hill because it could not get. . . what up the hill because it could not get... what happened next? we waited and we waited. there were some announcements saying they were waiting and we didn‘t have a lot of information. it did not take long before, it must have been an hour before, it must have been an hour before the power went, the train just went on to emergency lighting. and what do you know about what the other passengers on the train in front you‘d? other passengers on the train in front you'd? mostly we know what we heard on twitter, that the conduct and —— conductor and driver of the train said that we were getting more information than they had. they were so informat

we started this morning in sussex, i started in maidstone, kent, pretty much clear. then it began to snow around about lunchtime. as we have been making our way along the south coast, by the time we got to portsmouth, a lot of the traffic on the m27, going parallel to the coast, was at a standstill. it has really got progressively worse, with traffic stop and start right up to the m3 junction. where we are here, the sign says it, it is a traffic intersection that is always very busy, it is where you turn north to go through the a3a. that was closed bya go through the a3a. that was closed by a serious accident earlier. the latest we have heard is that the highways agency are doing repairs and they hope to get that open later this afternoon. these pictures give you an indication, my producer shot them in the last 30 minutes or so. the snow is going to drift, we are heading west down the a303 into wiltshire, and we will see when we come back to you how bad it has got. a big contrast between the major routes, where there is a lot of traffic running, and smaller routes li