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Migrants rescued from second sinking boat on same night four died in Channel

Migrants were rescued from a second sinking boat on the same night four people died in the Channel. Border Force officers rescued 50 people, five of whom had ended up in the freezing water, after their boat started to sink on the same night a major ...

16 Dec 2022 at 18:01

Police investigate deaths of four people in Channel

Detectives are investigating after four people died when a migrant boat capsized in the Channel. Kent Police said they are looking into the circumstances surrounding the incident on Wednesday with the National Crime Agency (NCA), amid reports that ...

16 Dec 2022 at 13:36

Government under fresh pressure to tackle Channel crossings after six deaths

Government under fresh pressure to tackle Channel crossings after 6 deaths

The Government is under renewed pressure to tackle the crisis of migrant crossings in the Channel following the deaths of six people after a boat sank off the coast of France. Campaigners described the incident as an “appalling and preventable ...

13 Aug 2023 at 10:34

509 people crossed the Channel on day six died in boat sinking

A total of 509 people crossed the English Channel in 10 boats on the day six died when a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of France. The latest Home Office figures take the provisional total for the past three days alone to more than ...

13 Aug 2023 at 17:15

Small boat arrivals continue as Channel crossings set to top 17,000

Small boat crossings are continuing as the number of migrants arriving in the UK via the English Channel looks set to top 17,000 so far in 2023. About 50 suspected asylum seekers were seen being brought ashore on the Kent coast by the RNLI ...

16 Aug 2023 at 17:11

Cab driver who acted as ‘courier’ for cross-Channel people smugglers avoids jail

A taxi driver who acted as “courier” for a criminal cross-Channel operation smuggling Vietnamese people into the UK using a “conveyor belt” of lorries has avoided jail. “Trusted” Habib Behsodi was part of a network of people bringing ...

21 Feb 2023 at 15:05

Four Vietnamese nationals held in Facebook people smugglers probe

Four Vietnamese nationals have been arrested following an investigation into alleged people smugglers advertising small boats crossings on Facebook. The joint UK-French investigation alleges the group shared posts aimed at the ...

27 Apr 2024 at 08:12

Labour think tank boss’s comment on people smugglers dismissed as ‘cringe’

A Labour think tank boss’s comments have been dismissed as “cringe” after he said smuggler gangs should be shipped to Scotland. Josh Simons, director of Labour Together, suggested on LBC radio that the gangs could be put on a ...

14 Feb 2024 at 10:08

People smugglers buying small boats directly from manufacturers

New intelligence suggests a large people-smuggling group responsible for around 10 per cent of Channel crossings set up deals with manufacturers to supply them with small boats. During an action day on Tuesday by British and ...

06 Jul 2022 at 13:22

Council says Home Office contractors told of Legionella on day of barge transfer

Home Office contractors were told about traces of Legionella bacteria found on the Bibby Stockholm barge on the same day asylum seekers were transferred on to the vessel, Dorset Council has said. The discovery eventually ...

14 Aug 2023 at 09:38

Pleasure boat owner accused of smuggling migrants from Normandy to Devon

A man has been arrested on suspicion of using his pleasure boat to smuggle migrants across the Channel. The 57-year-old was stopped by officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) while he was out with his dog in ...

07 Dec 2022 at 11:56

Minister warns of ‘worrying trend’ towards more overcrowded migrant boats

People smugglers are cramming more and more migrants onto increasingly poor boats to risk the English Channel crossing, ministers fear. So far this year 21,403 people have arrived on 409 boats at an average of 52 ...

03 Sept 2024 at 18:19

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