Drivers and passengers stranded in traffic on the way to Dover have praised a group of volunteers who delivered water and food to the queue on Saturday night.

The team from Slough-based NGO Khalsa Aid loaded up two vans with almost 6000 bottles of water and a number of cereal bars to distribute to people stuck in the huge traffic queue.

Founded on the Sikh principle of recognising ‘the whole human race as one’, Khalsa Aid was set up to provide humanitarian aid in disaster areas and areas hit by civil conflict overseas, and has also offered aid to those hit by floods in the UK.