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• Up to a hundred British truck drivers stuck in Greece look set to miss Christmas at home unless there is a quick end to the protests by local farmers that have seen roads blocked for nearly two weeks. Several of the drivers have been involved in fights: some have tried taking mountain roads but have eventually been stopped.
The farmers who are protesting about falling incomes have also blockaded supermarkets and have stopped drivers entering to buy food.
Philip Judge and Alan Kendall, both trying to deliver chilled foods to Azerbaijan for Peter Gilder, are stuck near Patrai and have been told they may be there until Christmas. They had problems in the French blockades, were then stopped at the Brenner Pass by striking Austrian farmers and now have been caught in Greece.
"This has turned a four-week trip into eight weeks—if we are lucky. We're all pretty fed up," says Judge, who has been surviving on the food he carries for the former Soviet areas.
Welsh driver Tony Mans, working for Wellingboroug based JS Cook Europe Transport is stuck at a tt booth 40km south Thessalonica. He was involv in scuffles and had two to broken by a policeman stam ing on his foot. He is trying deliver JCB plant in northe. Greece.
The Freight Transpo Association says it will be loc ing to the Government to he with compensation claims in t same way as with the Freni blockades.