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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nina Lloyd

Channel crossings begin on Saturday after longest pause in seven years

A group of people are taken in to the Border Force compound in Dover on Saturday (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

Migrants began crossing the English Channel on Saturday after the longest pause in small boat arrivals in the UK in seven years.

Before the weekend, no vessels had reached the English coast for 28 days, according to Home Office figures.

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