At the Port of Dover, thousands queued for hours, in the hope they can cross the channel and beat the French ban on British tourists

From lorries to the Eurostar – the rush to escape England ahead of another deadly winter in the grips of covid.

In France, ski resorts had been planning for the best winter in years, but now they’re counting their losses.

Tourism operators are struggling without British tourists after a surge in omicron cases in the UK.

The early season snow on the slopes of Mont Blanc is the best the region has seen for years. Not that many can see it.

It was meant to be a bumper Christmas for France’s ski resorts – flights and ferries had been fully booked.

But hopes were ended when the French government warned of a landslide of omicron cases tearing through the UK.

All non-essential travel from Britain has been banned.

One in four tourists in Chamonix before the pandemic were British, and now they’re counting their losses.

Paying a high price for its mountain resorts to survive another covid-infected European winter.