LONDON: French authorities suspended the European Union’s new digital border check system at Britain’s Port of Dover on Saturday, as traffic piled up at the UK ferry terminal at the start of the long weekend. Travelers were facing wait times of over two hours at the terminal in southern England to get the cross-Channel ferry to France, the Port of Dover said in traffic updates. It said it was the “first peak period” since the introduction of the so-called Entry/Exit System (EES).

Schools will finish for the half-term break this afternoon ahead of the first holiday period since the EU's new Entry Exit System (EES) came into force on April 10.

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