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By Lizzy Buchan Holidaymakers could face 14-hour waits at Dover under new border controls requiring people to provide fingerprints and photographs. MPs were told that tourists heading to Europe could be forced to join mammoth queues around the Port of Dover when the EU Entry-Exit System launches in October. Ashford Borough Council told Parliament’s European Scrutiny Committee that 14-hour queues are a “reasonable worst case” scenario if the scheme is implemented as planned. Delays at the port could also create long tailbacks, potentially blocking access to the Eurotunnel in Folkestone. Eurosta…

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