The French company Getlink, which manages the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France, is installing new barriers along the A16 motorway near Calais to stop migrants breaking into lorries. Work on building the new barriers began earlier this
The French have banned all accompanied traffic from the United Kingdom after the British government confirmed a new, more contagious strain of the Chinese coronavirus in London and the south-east.
Lorry drivers along the A16 motorway in the French port city of Calais were inundated by a near-continuous stream of migrants trying to board their vehicles to sneak into the UK. The French CRS, the country’s riot police, were also
DOVER, England (AP) – One tunnelling from France, the other digging from Britain, the two men smashed with pummeling jackhammers through the last slivers of rock separating their nations.
Dover (United Kingdom) (AFP) — A quarter-century after the Channel Tunnel opened, the British miner who punched through to the French side and was a poster boy for the continental connection is now a Brexit supporter.
Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron vows no more Jungle refugee camps in Calais; Macron demands more money from Britain and to renegotiate the Le Touquet Agreement
Taxpayers are forking out for the man who walked to Britain through the Channel Tunnel to live in a £100,000 property. Not only are the public having to foot the illegal migrant’s £700-a-month housing benefit bill, but Abdul Haroun can
The migrant crisis in Calais is now so bad that authorities are considering extending the Channel Tunnel by a third of a mile to stop migrants stowing away on trains to Britain. A section of track from the opening of
The tenacious Sudanese migrant who put the lives of himself and others at risk by walking the full length of the channel tunnel to reach the United Kingdom has been awarded UK asylum, despite facing criminal charges. Sudanese national Abdul Rahman Haroun,
France is to construct a massive new migrant camp on its northern coast, presenting the UK with major new threat to its border security. The camp, which will be France’s first official migrant camp for 13 years, will join the
A mass intrusion by hundreds of migrants forced Eurotunnel cross-Channel rail services to be suspended in both directions last night after they stormed the terminal and platforms in France. The human tide led the Channel Tunnel operator to halt services from Folkestone, Kent and Coquelles
LILLE, France – A migrant was killed during the night of Thursday to Friday after being hit by a freight train on the site of the Channel Tunnel near Calais, firefighters said, taking the death toll there among people trying
Two Iranian illegal immigrants have been arrested after walking the entire length of the Channel Tunnel into England. They slipped past security on Friday night as more than 100 migrants broke into the tunnel en masse, many getting as far
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Around 200 migrants tried to get into the Channel Tunnel in France overnight, clashing with staff and police and forcing the suspension of rail services, a spokesman for Eurotunnel said. The disruption in the Channel Tunnel
A migrant was electrocuted last night near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in France. French police said the man, who is believed to be a Syrian national, was trying to climb onto the roof of a UK-bound train when
A Sudanese illegal immigrant has been arrested in Kent after walking 30.5 of the 31 mile Channel Tunnel from France to England. Although Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, was arrested only half a mile from the Channel Tunnel mouth in Folkstone,
COQUELLES, France (AP) — French riot police have sprayed migrants with a chemical irritant as they tried to storm the Channel Tunnel, and the British and French interior ministers said the nightly attempts to reach Britain are part of a
A Sudanese migrant has been crushed to death by a truck in a second night of chaos at the French end of the Channel Tunnel as 2,000 migrants attempted to stowaway on vehicles travelling to Britain. Local police and tunnel
Dozens of migrants trying to stow away on vehicles crossing the Channel by tunnel between France and England broke through perimeter fences at Calais overnight, temporarily halting traffic, a Eurotunnel spokesman said on Saturday. The disruption was the latest in
The Channel Tunnel closed again on Tuesday due to protesting MyFerryLink workers, its operator Eurotunnel and French traffic supervision body Bison Fute said. The entrance to the tunnel was blocked by angry workers who set fire to tyres thrown on