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Police were slow to react to an "exceptionally well organised" protest that ground the Port of Dover to a halt for hours, a council boss has said.Kevin Mills, who leads Dover District Council, told the BBC that demonstrators "caught several agencies on the hoof" when they arrived on Saturday.Hundreds of masked men chanting "stop the boats" blocked roads, causing miles of tailbacks and preventing access to the port.Kent Police is yet to comment, but cabinet minister Jonathan Reynolds said officer...

Police aborted the pursuit of a car seconds before it crashed while going the wrong way down a dual carriageway, killing all five men aboard and two officers, investigators have said.Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jakub Matusiak, 23, Theo Rae, 17, Makai Saddington, 18, and Cole Robert Worthy, 17, died when a Volkswagen Passat struck a Cleveland Police vehicle on the A66 near Middlesbrough on Saturday.PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, who were on the correct side of the road and were help...