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Rishi Sunak’s vow to stop small boat crossings ‘delusionary’, former French ambassador says

Sylvie Bermann warns long coastline and smugglers’ changing tactics mean crossings cannot be totally stopped

The Independent UK

Small boat arrivals continue as Channel crossings set to top 17,000

About 50 people, thought to be asylum seekers, were brought ashore by an RNLI lifeboat at Dungeness, Kent, on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Ministers under pressure to tackle small boat crossings after six die in the Channel

Campaigners described the incident as an ‘appalling and preventable tragedy’ while MPs called for action to stop criminal gangs facilitating the boats

Evening Standard

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Fresh anger over Channel boat deaths as government under pressure over safe and legal routes

Campaigners described the incident as an ‘appalling and preventable tragedy’ while MPs called for action to stop criminal gangs facilitating the boats

The Independent UK

Six dead and dozens rescued after migrant boat capsizes in Channel as search continues

Migrants were using shoes to bail water out of the sinking boat, according to one volunteer

The Independent UK

Migrants rescued as number of people crossing Channel ‘hits 100k since 2018’

Several migrants have been rescued from the English Channel as the number of people crossing on small boats in the last five-and-a-half years…

The National (Scotland)

Migrants rescued as number of people crossing Channel ‘hits 100,000 since 2018’

The Home Office confirmed 17 individuals were rescued from the water who had gone overboard and said they were all recovered safely.

The Independent UK

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Cutting-edge new aircraft have increased NZ’s surveillance capacity – but are they enough in a changing world?

New Zealand’s national security was strengthened this month when the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s newest Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft became operational.

The Conversation

UK accused of unlawful crackdown on visitors from Timor-Leste

Family members of East Timorese in UK denied right to visit, as Home Office says too many hoping to work illegally

The Guardian - UK

Three men sentenced for using religious body to smuggle £2m of cannabis into UK

The shipments were hidden in tins of Jamaican fruit.

The Independent UK

Ben Wallace takes ‘parting shot at Suella Braverman’ as he announces he’ll quit as defence secretary

Wallace refuses request for 750 troops to cover Border Force staff – as he reveals he’s done with frontline politics

The Independent UK

Ben Wallace takes ‘parting shot at Suella Braverman’ as he announces he’ll quit as defence secretary

Wallace refuses request for 750 troops to cover Border Force staff – as he reveals he’s done with frontline politics

The Independent UK

More than £1.2m in Covid fines handed out after pandemic restrictions ended

Footballer Cheikhou Kouyaté among defendants recently prosecuted for Covid breaches that happened in early 2021

Evening Standard

Illegal cigarettes seized at Belfast Port

HM Revenue and Customs teamed up with the Border Force for the operation

Belfast Live

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Manchester Evening News

'Breadwinner' with 'good work ethic' caught smuggling 800 sheets of fake stamps into Manchester Airport

Ogbehudia Adun hid almost 800 sheets of fake first and second class stamps under his clothes

The Independent UK

UK strikes since June 2022: The key numbers

More than half of all working days lost to strikes were in transport and communication industries.

Wales Online

Men arrested after 1.6 tonnes of cocaine found in charcoal sacks

The drugs would have had a street-level value of more than £120 million

The Independent UK

Two arrests in Leicestershire over £120m cocaine haul hidden in charcoal

The National Crime Agency said around 1.6 tonnes of cocaine was found in 800 sacks of charcoal that was on a ship travelling from Panama.

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The Independent UK

More than 600 migrants cross Channel in 2023 record – days after Sunak claimed plan was ‘working’

Numbers crossing rise as seas calm during heatwave

The Independent UK

Sunak says ‘stop the boats’ plan is ‘starting to work’ as he announces two new barges

PM accused of ‘self-congratulatory’ hubris – but insists his policies are acting as a deterrent rather than poor weather in Channel

The Independent UK

Minister orders Border Force to ‘see me in my office’ after e-gates failure

The 24-hour outage caused long queues at airports across the UK on May 26 and 27.

The Independent UK

Vaping is fast becoming an epidemic among children, warn doctors

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health warned that e-cigarettes are not a risk-free product

The Independent UK

Children’s doctors call for ban on disposable vapes

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health warned that e-cigarettes are not a risk-free product.

The Guardian - UK

Rish! as prime minister makes 2017’s Maybot sound like advanced AI

We were promised the tech bro who could feel our pain, but Rishi Sunak merely inflicts it

The Independent UK

Going to sea in choppy waters brought home dangers of small boat crossings – PM

Rishi Sunak tried his hardest ‘not to get ill’ on board a Border Force cutter off the Dover coast.

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