The coastguard were too busy dealing with migrant rescues yesterday morning to assist a yacht and kayak who believed they were in trouble in the English Channel.. Border Force, RNLI and several ...

Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk proposed renaming the English Channel to the ‘George Washington Canal’ after America’s first president. After suggesting changing the name of the ...

The new name he suggests is The George Washington Channel, named after the first president of the United States. More than 5 ...

A flotilla marking the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation was forced to divert due to a migrant dinghy in the English Channel.. The fleet of 66 vessels set sail from Ramsgate, Kent, at 6am ...

More than 12,500 people have crossed the English Channel on small boats so far in 2025. In April, the number of people who had crossed the Channel in a small boat was 42% higher than at the same ...

“First big swim was the English Channel in 2015, which I’ve done twice now and I’m getting ready for a third this coming July,” Pumphrey said. To learn more about Pumphrey and her swimming ...

A BRITISH fishing boat has been seized by French authorities after allegedly being caught “whelking without a licence” – in the English Channel. The Lady T. was being held in Boul… ...

A piece of Holocaust history — a Nazi concentration camp built on Alderney, a British island — has been largely forgotten. Researchers have worked to count the island's dead.

A British warship and helicopter were sent to escort a Russian frigate out of the English Channel for the second time this month. Putin’s warship the RFN Admiral Golovko was spotted ‘prowling ...

One person died when a boat overloaded with migrants broke up during an attempted overnight crossing of the English Channel. Via AP news wire. Monday 19 May 2025 11:54 BST.

Migrants who made the journey to the UK across the English Channel in small boats accounted for 32% of the total in 2024. The data shows 38,079 asylum seekers were being housed temporarily in ...

Migrant dies trying to cross English Channel. ... It comes as the UK signed a “road-map” agreement with France earlier this month aimed at bolstering co-operation to tackle people smuggling.