By the time they attempted to cross the Channel, he and his brother had been travelling ... from Iraq - Rola was among 16 people - including 10 children - on a boat in the Aa canal in Watten, when it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Smugglers have ferried more than 150,000 migrants across the English Channel since Government records began in 2018 – most often in inflatable “small boats”.

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.

Here are some of the key statistics and trends for migrants who arrived in the UK in 2024 after crossing the English Channel in small boats. – How many migrants arrived in 2024? A total of ...

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