The crew of a British fishing boat helped prevent what could have been a much larger tragedy when they rescued more than 30 migrants from the waters of the Channel, with some people clinging to a rope before being hauled on to the vessel.
Raymond Strachan, skipper of the trawler Arcturus, said his crew pulled 31 "screaming" migrants from the water in freezing temperatures after their dinghy began to sink in the middle of the Channel between Britain and France in the dark early hours of Wednesday.
