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Fifty more migrants land in Britain today after 150 made perilous Channel crossing this weekend as people smugglers took advantage of break in bad weather – taking arrivals total this year to almost 7,900 Nearly 150 migrants crossed the English channel during weekend’s dry weather Arrivals continued today with 25 people making it to shore … Read more
Matt Hancock warns the UK is at a ‘perilous moment’ in the fight against coronavirus and says lockdowns will be a part of life ‘until a vaccine can make us safe’ Matt Hancock today warned UK is at a ‘perilous moment’ in fight against virus He said suppression of Covid-19 is required ‘until a vaccine … Read more
Migrants set sail from Dunkirk at dawn today to make the perilous Channel crossing – with more than 400 estimated to have landed in Britain. Photos showed dozens of migrants embarking from Gravelines beach in the twilight and their smugglers scurrying back up the dunes after seeing them off. Others showed French police officers patrolling … Read more
A group of migrants crammed onto a small boat made the dangerous journey across the Channel just a day after the police clashed with far-right anti-immigrant protesters in Dover. The nine asylum seekers were pictured drifting in the sea after their engine failed near Dover, in Kent today. The Home Office has been contacted for … Read more
Five more migrants risked their lives in gale-force winds to cross the channel taking the number who arrived in small boats this year to over 5,000 as Storm Ellen battered the UK. Numbers of people trying to reach British shores have surged in the summer months, prompting the Government to deploy RAF planes to the … Read more