A heavily overcrowded boat with an estimated 60 migrants and children as young as three on board was filmed almost sinking in the Channel on Friday morning. Witnesses said it was “seconds from ...

Footage shows what appears to be a small boat crossing the Channel from France before being intercepted by the coastguard. Sky News Posted: 4 September 2024 | Last updated: 4 September 2024 ...

The French approach in the channel, though, differs from what has been happening in the Mediterranean. There, Italy and the European Union, which includes France, have funded, trained and equipped ...

Just a day after 12 migrants died in a failed effort to cross the English Channel aboard a small inflatable, another boat carrying several dozen people appears to be making another crossing ...

Migrants board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel, on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on April 26, 2024.

Eight people have died overnight while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French police say. Rescue services were alerted after the boat got into difficulty in waters north of ...

This is the moment an Afghan small boat migrant tries to smuggle himself out of Britain on a lorry after being left feeling 'depressed and isolated' by life in the UK. Zahir has made four attempts ...

October 23 - Aster, 21, from Eritrea - Three people died and 46 were rescued when a boat sank in the Channel. One was subsequently named as 21-year-old Aster, from Eritrea.

More people are crossing the English Channel in small boats on the weekend. Our data analysis shows last year 40% of the total number of arrivals happened on a Saturday or Sunday.

As at 26 February 2,056 people had crossed the Channel since the start of 2025. In 2024 as a whole, 36,816 were detected making the crossing. The highest figures were for 2022, when 45,755 people ...

More than 36,000 migrants have made the perilous Channel crossing so far this year, more than in 2023, though fewer than in 2022. Billant also blamed human traffickers for putting lives at risk.

WIMEREUX, France (AP) — Just a day after 12 migrants died in a failed effort to cross the English Channel aboard an small inflatable, another boat carrying several dozen people appears to be ...