The first small boat crossing of 2025 has taken place, with 61 people making the journey across the channel. The migrants, who all arrived on one vessel, crossed on 4 January. It was the first ...

By the time they attempted to cross the Channel, he and his brother had been travelling for around nine months ... March 3 - Rola Al Mayali, seven, from Iraq - Rola was among 16 people - including 10 ...

Three cross-Channel migrants were killed in icy water today when an overcrowded boat was stormed by a group of asylum seekers. Chaos erupted at dawn on the Northern French Coast when 50 UK-bound ...

The number of people crossing the Channel in small boats has passed 20,000 since Labour came to power.

READ MORE: Number of migrants crossing the Channel is up 13% compared ... with France to install buoys in canal and river mouths used by smugglers to launch boats in calmer waters.

The first migrants of 2025 have been intercepted by officials trying to cross the English Channel ... 36,816 people who crossed the Channel in small boats in 2024, a jump of 25 per cent from ...

A Syrian man has been crushed to death trying to cross the Channel from France in a small boat, the AFP news agency has reported. Two people have been arrested, a regional official told the agency.

Small boat crossings have continued in the English Channel on Saturday despite the ... He said: “In 2023, Conservatives cut the numbers crossing the channel by a third. But now, it’s all moving the ...

A single dinghy carrying 61 migrants has become the first small boat this year to be caught trying to cross the Channel. People smugglers crammed the migrants into a tiny boat and sent the vessel ...