Video, 00:04:511940: Convoy shelled in Straits of Dover Up Next. 1994: The Channel Tunnel is opened. Video, 00:03:111994: The Channel Tunnel is opened 1978: Timing is everything. Video ...

but records show that a German plane dived down and machine-gunned Duff and his crew while they were recording a dogfight over Dover on 23 August 1940. From the BBC Archive.

The Newhaven to Dieppe service, run by DFDS ... True, the Channel Tunnel is now the most popular choice across the Dover Strait. It took a long time to get there. It only carried more passengers ...