A government source has warned that prospective plans to increase the number of border force patrol boats in the English Channel will encourage illegal migration.
Eighteen more suspected illegal migrants have attempted to cross the English Channel from France in small boats overnight, prompting calls to return them to France to disincentivise further crossings.
A group of a dozen migrants were arrested Monday night after stealing a fishing boat from the French port of Boulogne-sur-Mer and managing to reach the UK coast.
Contents: Britain and France renew 1904 Entente Cordiale with new military agreement; Britain will pay £44.5 million to renew the Le Touquet migration agreement
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
British frigate HMS WESTMINSTER was dispatched Monday morning to escort a group of Russian warships through the English Channel.
PARIS (AP) – A ferry carrying 313 people ran aground Sunday amid high winds off the French port of Calais, interrupting boat traffic across the English Channel. Authorities safely evacuated those on board. A towing operation, aided by a rising
Officials have warned of a new ‘back door’ illegal migration route opening and a wave of asylum seekers boating to the UK after a group of Iranian migrants arrived on British shores in a rubber dinghy.
LONDON (AP) — Romanian officials say one of the country’s citizens drowned and two others are missing after their boat collided with another vessel and sank in the English Channel.
Contents: Migrant camp in northern France housing 1,600 people burnt to the ground; The Le Touquet treaty, which moves Britain’s border into France, will be reconsidered
Five men, including three Albanians, were indicted for smuggling illegal migrants from Albania across the English Channel to Britain.
Contents: Russia’s warship fleet sails through English Channel to Syria; Russia extends ‘humanitarian pause’ in Aleppo Syria
Ferries in the English Channel should have armed guards on board to protect them from terrorists and people smugglers, a British MP has suggested. Charlie Elphicke, the MP for Dover, also called for British naval vessels patrolling the Mediterranean to
Five Iranian migrants who were arrested for illegally entering the UK after crossing the English Channel in a dinghy were released by Border officials and told to “please report in regularly”.
A shocking new video from Leave.EU shows how easy it is for migrants to cross the Channel from France to enter the UK illegally. The campaign’s press release revealed that in 2015 alone the UK granted 20,000 of these illegal migrants
From Sky News: Migrants are avoiding tough new security measures in Calais by choosing quiet beaches in France to launch attempts to cross the Channel, Sky News has been told. Local people say there is something strange happening on a
(REUTERS) – Britain is investing in extra patrol boats and surveillance to try to prevent migrants crossing the English Channel, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. Twenty people, including 18 Albanians, were rescued from the Channel
Two Iranian illegal migrants have successful made it across the English Channel from France, after being brought ashore by lifeguards in Kent. The men were well prepared for the journey, with life jackets, water and mobiles phones on board. They
Illegal migrants camped in Calais, France, are attempting to enter Britain by sailing makeshift rafts across the English Channel, as they become increasingly desperate after the ‘Jungle’ was finally dismantled. The reports come from the French Coastguard, which claims to have seen
British Prime Minister David Cameron has alleged that Britain leaving the European Union would lead to Calais ‘Jungle’-style camps in the South East of England – effectively threatening the nation that if they vote to remain in the European Union,
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
