This brings the total for this week to 2,083 and the total for the year to 18,400. This compares to 12,644 by the same date ...

People along the French coast hoping to cross the English Channel on small boats have spoken to the BBC about their futures.

More than 1,100 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel on Saturday, the highest number recorded on a single day so far in 2025. The latest Home Office figures showed 1,195 ...

But they were also seen to stand by and watch once migrants had entered the water to board a dinghy in the hope of crossing the English Channel.

Officers took action against hundreds of people attempting the crossing near Calais on Tuesday morning as the prime minister ...

New research finds that disproportionate coverage of the relatively low numbers crossing the English channel is turning ...

U.K. government figures Sunday showed that more than 1,100 migrants arrived in the country on Saturday in small boats from France across the English Channel, the highest number recorded on a ...

Over the past week, there have not been any arrivals of migrants crossing the Channel in small ... as roughly 650 people crossed the English Channel. Last year, a total of 36,816 migrants ...

THE FRENCH police union boss whose cops are failing to stop boats crossing the Channel was branded a “hypocrite” after describing migrants in France as “scum”. The Alliance national police union ...

Faced with a growing number of Channel migrant crossings, France hopes to stop more small boats from reaching Britain by changing its rules of engagement to intercept vessels, France's interior ...