Striking miners had then been attempting to stop convoys of lorries taking coal to Llanwern steelworks.
Cigarettes will also be delivered in more fuel-efficient lorries and a new initiative will be introduced to encourage smokers to take a healthy jog to the shops to buy their smokes.
Since the scheme is so restricted, thousands of other Syrians have independently made their way to the UK, and at great personal cost – paying out huge sums to traffickers, smuggling themselves in lorries from Calais, or risking their lives in unseaworthy ships across the Mediterranean.
Produce arrives all day in handcarts and lorries, and turnover is fast.
A twentysomething I'll call Adam works in one of those warehouses for one of Britain's biggest firms, humping goods on to lorries to go to internet shoppers.
At Maidstone crown court, the six men were jailed for their roles in the thefts involving three lorries, which took place in April 2013.
Det Sgt Jon Saxby said: "These sentences reflect the seriousness of these offences – organised, professional thieves who stole lorries and lorry loads to sell on.
Lorries currently pay over £18 and cars over £6.
A plan involving the use of 4,500 service drivers and 1,650 tipper lorries was considered capable of moving 100 kilotonnes a day of coal to the power stations.
With a friend, Lydia managed to jump out one of the lorries after it succumbed to mechanical failures.
The lorries are bumper to bumper, 24 hours a day.
