The French coastguard has rescued 68 migrants from a small boat off the Calais coast which was suffering engine failure, as ...

Pictures show men and women wearing blankets and life jackets being brought ashore from a Border Force boat in Dover on ...

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Furedi said the UK's border controls are "feeble" and claimed the Government has "given up on taking its ...

French authorities said they rescued 107 migrants trying to cross the English Channel from France to England on Wednesday. Over the course of Christmas Day, 12 rescue operations were staged along ...

Three men who were involved in a conspiracy to smuggle migrants in boats that kept breaking down across the English Channel ...

Migrants crossing the English Channel to the UK have been reported for the first time in 2025, according to the Home Office ...

A patrol vessel carrying migrants picked up at sea by Border Force after attempting to cross the Channel from France, arrives in Dover. Migrants are then seen disembarking the vessel after it arrives ...

Britain says it will impose sanctions on members of people-smuggling gangs who send migrants crossing the English Channel to ...

A total of 36,816 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK in 2024, provisional government figures show. The figure is up 25% on 2023 when 29,437 people arrived in small boats. The number ...

The English Channel is "a particularly dangerous area, especially at the height of winter for precarious and overloaded boats," the statement said. At least 73 migrants have died trying to cross ...

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Three men who were involved in a conspiracy to smuggle migrants in boats that kept breaking down across the English Channel have been jailed for a combined total of 14 years. Freddy Lawrence ...