Residents next to a large Brexit lorry park in Ashford say it is as bright as Wembley Stadium and has ruined the dark night sky for miles around.

From up above, it resembles a sports stadium, void of spectators or athletes. Or a motorway service station, similarly vacant without a car or a lorry in plain sight.

Residents are being urged to have their say on Ashford's controversial post-Brexit lorry park – four months after work began on the site.

Government officials are continuing to block the release of information about the impact of post-Brexit lorry park holding sites, saying it is not in the public interest.

A post-Brexit customs centre for up to 10,000 lorries has been earmarked for a 27-acre site in Kent, in a plan the local MP says came "out of the blue".

Another Brexit advertising campaign. They've replaced sporting events as signs of the changing seasons. Instead of Wimbledon or the Olympics, we get Michael Gove talking gibberish on television and further millions poured into preparedness exercises for an outcome with no tangible benefits.

This week, the practical realities of what Brexit is going to mean came into central focus for perhaps the first time, with a new government information campaign.

The creation of a giant Brexit border control site off the M20 is likely to cost taxpayers a staggering £70 million, it has emerged.

Floodlights at a Brexit lorry park in Kent have "destroyed" the night sky, residents say.

A huge Brexit lorry park in Ashford is as bright as Wembley Stadium and has ruined the dark night sky for miles around, according to angry residents.

The government has paid the owner of land being used as a Brexit lorry park in Ashford almost £6m in rent, it has emerged.

The border facility, which is still under construction, was set up by the Government to hold around 1,700 lorries in case of border disruption.

The government is yet to work out the potential environmental impact of a huge Brexit lorry park - even though construction started almost two months ago.

There are calls for the new Brexit minister Liz Truss to visit a village near Ashford where truckers keep getting lost on their way to a lorry park.

Note that the slogans on these placards all represent news that has reached us about the effects of Brexit on Kent specifically. Some of these have featured in articles in Kent Bylines, as linked in the explanations below.

The U.K. government just presented a 206-page manual for how the country will trade with the European Union on Jan. 1, when Britain’s exit from the 27-nation bloc becomes official 4 1/2 years after the nation voted to leave.

Eurostar has warned that Brexit formalities are threatening its business, although it is holding out hopes that a new digital immigration system will simplify the procedure in due course.

Extra border checks mean St Pancras can't handle as many passengers as it did before Brexit.

The incredible shrinking network: Brexit plus refurbishment could see the number of stations served by the cross-Channel train operator cut from 13 to four.

Europe-bound trains won’t stop at Ashford and Ebbsfleet International stations for at least ‘two to three years’.

Emergency traffic measures to last until ‘end of October 2021’ – with a giant lorry park to hold 2,000 goods vehicles.

A vast Brexit customs clearance centre catering for thousands of lorries on the outskirts of Ashford will result in huge disruption, fears the town's MP.

Drone pictures reveal how a giant Brexit border control site off the M20 near Ashford is now sitting empty.

Work on an "emergency lorry park" in Kent to accommodate up to 10,000 vehicles bound for Europe began without the knowledge of residents.

Thousands of lorries may have to queue to get into Europe after December 31

Ministers urged to fulfil promise of new facilities, as desperate drivers forced to ‘s*** in bushes’.

ondon trains leave Amsterdam at least 78% empty because of constraints on UK border checks. / Thousands of seats are deliberately going unsold on Eurostar trains every day as the cross-Channel train operator struggles with post-Brexit passport controls.

DfT has bought site that will be used for customs clearance and holding pen for lorries, Rachel Maclean confirms.

Heavy rain has hampered work on site intended to relieve queues around Dover from 1 January.

‘Worst case scenario’ also warns of passengers waiting hours to board Chunnel trains to continent.

The government has ordered a 27-acre site be transformed into a customs clearance centre

Motorists brand works in preparation for potential no-deal queues ‘chaos’ and ‘complete waste of time’.

Angry residents are growing increasingly impatient waiting for a solution to be found to stop lorry park-bound truckers getting lost in Mersham.

Pictures posted on Facebook showed trucks wedged in precarious positions in the village as they tried to negotiate the winding streets.

'This is all so pointless. We are creating a vast customs bureaucracy, with costs passed on to the consumer'

A 27-acre site is being built to handle trucks amid fears that new trade rules will slow freight movement. It has been nicknamed the “Farage Garage” after the pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage.

The boss of a haulage company says he has seen journey times treble due to EU red tape and Covid testing for drivers.

Dozens of staff recruited to process and check food goods arriving from Europe could have to be redeployed after the government announced a further delay on new post-Brexit border controls.

Tory MP Damian Green just tried to claim that building a Brexit customs centre in his constituency is "unfair" to local residents, even though they voted to leave the EU.

Confused truckers trying to find a huge Brexit lorry park are getting lost in a nearby village - making houses shake and churning up grass verges.

Ministers plan to resurrect Operation Brock to manage lines. / U.K. fears traders won’t be ready for new EU customs checks

Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.

New border checks in Kent and elsewhere reverse 47 years of removal of trade barriers.

Businesses face 400 million extra customs declarations a year at a cost up as much as £20 billion under government plans.

Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England

Collapsed trade talks, new border checks, 14-hour queues at the border and medicine shortages... it's just another day in Brexit land.

The Entry/Exit System is set to start in October but many operational details remain unclear, as fears grow of major delays at Dover and Eurotunnel.