"We are stationary with the engine turned off, " said Emma Digby.

BBC: Ferry traffic into Dover comes to standstill

Ms Digby said that at the height of the delays, drivers were reversing back up the slip road on to the motorway.

BBC: Ferry traffic into Dover comes to standstill

"Business needs decisive and meaningful action to shore up confidence, " CBI director general Digby Jones said.

BBC: CBI director general Digby Jones

Earlier CBI director general Digby Jones said trade unions for were "increasingly irrelevant", particularly when they still called for secondary picketing.

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"I really don't believe that Italian football has learned the lessons of Heysel and Hillsborough, or at least hasn't implemented any tangible changes at anything like the pace required, " said another Italian football writer Adam Digby.

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Digby Brodrick, chairman of Hastings Athletic Club, said there has been more interest in the club since the London 2012 Olympics, but it will be hard to keep people interested if the facilities are poor.

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At a regular meeting of Labour peers on Wednesday night there was "a lot of disquiet" expressed about Sir Digby's appointment, BBC Newsnight political editor Michael Crick said.

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Sir Digby once called the unions "increasingly irrelevant", but when he was appointed by Mr Brown he said, despite past criticism of the government, it would be wrong to pass up the opportunity to help put business at the heart of a new administration.

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