14 h. ago French police slash migrant boat and drag passengers back to shore just as they attempt to cross the Channel for Britain

Dramatic footage shows dozens of migrants and asylum seekers boarding an inflatable dingy as it approaches the shallow waters.

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15 h. ago French police slash migrant boat and drag passengers back to shore just as they attempt to set across the Channel for Britain

Dramatic footage shows dozens of migrants and asylum seekers boarding an inflatable dingy as it approaches the shallow waters.

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16 h. ago French police ‘slash small boats with knives’ to prevent Channel crossings

Downing Street said the new tactics will have a ‘major impact’ on smuggling gangs

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19 h. ago Channel crossing migrants should face prosecution if child dies – Home Secretary

Yvette Cooper appeared to suggest that getting on an overcrowded boat could result in prosecution.

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37 h. ago P&O Ferries boss got pay rise of at least 55% after firing almost 800 workers

Delayed 2023 accounts show Peter Hebblethwaite was paid £683,000 despite public outrage over dismissalsThe boss of P&O Ferries was paid £683,000 in the financial year after the cross-Channel operator outraged the public and parliament by dismissing almost 800 mainly British workers.The windfall, revealed in much delayed 2023 accounts seen by the Guardian and ITV News that report more than £90m of annual losses, represents a pay rise of at least 55% for Peter Hebblethwaite, who was the company’s highest-paid director. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Migrants who cross the Channel into the UK 'are 24 times more likely to go to prison than Brits'

A whopping 3.4 per cent - one in 30 - small boat migrants end up behind bars, according to official data for nationalities who make up the largest portion of arrivals.

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69 h. ago Migrant whose daughter, two, nearly drowned in aborted Channel crossing reveals he wants to get to UK to join rest of his family who are already here

Labour's failure to stop the boats was laid bare yesterday as a record 20,000 smashed through Britain's border in the first half of this year.

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3 d. ago Lined up and waiting to cross the Channel for a new life in UK, NEIL SEARS reports on the migrant crisis from Gravelines, near Calais

It's the pretty holiday town that has become notorious as the most popular launchpad for migrants heading for Britain.

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3 d. ago New record for number of migrants crossing Channel set in first half of 2025

Some 19,982 migrants have arrived in the UK after making the dangerous crossing up from France, latest Home Office figures show

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3 d. ago Children crossing Channel from France exposed to teargas, report says

NGO says rise in interventions has only increased danger as new data shows at least 15 children died in transit last yearChildren and babies coming to the UK on small boats from northern France have been teargassed and subjected to tactics such as the discharge of rubber bullets and the slashing of dinghies with knives, according to a new report.The publication on Tuesday of We Want to Be Safe, by the French non-governmental organisation Project Play, came as the latest figures on daily crossings released by the UK government reached an all-time high of 19,982 for the first six months of the year, a 40% increase compared with the same period last year. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Record number of migrants crossing Channel for first half of year

Some 19,982 migrants have arrived in the UK after making the dangerous crossing up to the end of June this year, latest Home Office figures show.

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4 d. ago Nine people smugglers jailed in France over fatal Channel small boat crossing

A boat got into trouble off the Kent coast while carrying 47 people on December 14 2022.

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7 d. ago Italy and Spain slam France over proposed migration pact with UK

Rome and Madrid fear they will have to take back asylum seekers who cross the Channel

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7 d. ago UK and France to agree migrant return deal to tackle Channel crossings – reports

The deal could see migrants who arrive in the UK by crossing the English Channel in small boats returned to France.

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8 d. ago UK prepares to announce ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal with France

More than 17,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far this year

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9 d. ago Three Albanians and a Moldovan woman are arrested in dawn raids targeting people smuggling ring 'who advertised illegal crossings on social media'

Four people have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into an alleged people smuggling gang that is said to have advertised Channel crossings on social media.

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9 d. ago UK heatwave warning as 40C 'Mediterranean furnace' to send mercury rocketing this weekend

This weekend looks set to break records as fierce heat from the Mediterranean crosses the Channel and makes landfall on UK shores, sending temperatures soaring into the mid 30s

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9 d. ago ‘Total chaos’ on Eurostar – but what are passengers’ rights between London and continental Europe?

Mass cancellations on cross-Channel trains show how poorly rail travellers are protected compared with airline passengers

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1 week ago Labour voters think biggest burden on NHS is migration... as 1,000 more migrants arrive in small boats in just two days

The poll of 2,000 people who voted Sir Keir Starmer into Downing Street came as another 437 migrants in small boats crossed the Channel to Britain on Friday, followed by 583 on Saturday.

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1 week ago More than 1,000 migrants cross Channel in small boats over two days

This brings the total for the year so far to 18,400.

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