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British holidaymakers and lorry-drivers trying to cross the channel are being confronted with chaos thanks to a strike that had closed the port of Calais and the Channel Tunnel.
Striking French ferry workers blockaded the port with a wall of flaming tyres, before forcing the closure of the Channel Tunnel by getting on to the tracks.
Some of the 3,000 migrants camped at Calais are reportedly trying to exploit the strike by jumping on to slow-going lorries.
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