Some 341 people made the journey in six boats on Thursday, bringing the provisional total for the year so far to 5,025.

This is the earliest point in the year that crossings have reached the 5,000 mark since data on Channel crossings was first ...

French maritime authorities say they’ve recovered the bodies of two migrants who died over the past two days in attempts to ...

Exploitative smugglers are offering discounted channel crossings to migrants who promote their services through social media.

Smugglers are telling migrants all they have to do is “wave at Britain” to be rescued in the Channel, as they lure people ...

One person has died after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel from France got into difficulties overnight, said a local French authority on Thursday.

One person has died and 15 people rescued while trying to cross the English Channel overnight in an overloaded small boat – ...

A dinghy loaded with migrants seeking to cross the English Channel sits off the coast near Calais, France, on Feb. 2. (Emin Ozmen/Magnum Photos/For The Washington Post) The scene on a French beach ...

A total of four deaths have been recorded by the French coastguard in its rescue operations in the Channel this year.

People smugglers are offering migrants discounted Channel crossings in exchange for filming their journeys for social media ...

Two people were rescued from the water, with one suffering from hypothermia while the other was in cardiac arrest and did not ...