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

Mr Retailleau has agreed to the change in tactics because he believes it could counter the use of “taxi-boats”, where ...

A migrant has reportedly died attempting to cross the English Channel after a vessel they were travelling on struck ...

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

A migrant has died after being pulled from the water while trying to cross the English Channel, the French coastguard said. A ...

The British government has vowed to “smash the gangs” that orchestrate migrant crossings ... Looking out across the channel, his teeth chattering, Michael vowed to try again.

This year is shaping up to be the worst on record for small boat crossings, data suggests. Home Office figures show there have been 4,393 arrivals across the Channel between the start of the year ...

MIGRANT Channel crossings are at the highest rate of any ... again today after another overloaded vessel was spotted coming across the Channel from France. Dozens of migrants straddled the side ...

GENEVA - Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people confirmed to have died on perilous routes that include crossing the Sahara Desert or the Mediterranean Sea, the U.

Small boats carrying migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel for a sixth ... to “turbocharge efforts to smash the gangs” smuggling migrants across the Channel. Investigators ...

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