The Latest Breaking News from Calais

Home Office to pay UK resident £5,750 for 10-hour Calais detention

Border official insisted Slovakian national was using an alias after Home Office misspelled name

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2022

France blasts UK's 'lack of humanity' as Ukraine refugees in Calais 'turned away'

French Interior minister Gerald Darmanin blasted Home Secretary Priti Patel in a furious letter - saying 150 Ukrainians have been told to apply for visas in Paris rather than close to the English Channel

Daily Mirror · Mar 6, 2022

Priti Patel urged to send emergency help for Ukraine refugees stranded in Calais in visas row

Home secretary told to ‘send an emergency team to Calais immediately to get desperate people swiftly through’

The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2022

Family stuck in Calais as UK turns away desperate refugees in 'disgraceful situation'

Ukrainian families are flooding into Calais and many are being refused visas in what shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper branded 'a disgraceful situation'

Daily Mirror · Mar 5, 2022

‘We thought we’d die’ – after their treacherous journeys, what awaits the refugees landing on British beaches?

Many of the thousands of people who attempt the deadly Channel crossing in tiny boats land in towns like Folkestone. Local resident James Harkin meets some on the shore

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2022

France first: Far-right challenger tears into Macron's European vision

Eric Zemmour, the French far-right presidential challenger, on Wednesday said he would seize back control of France's borders from Europe, block European Union free trade negotiations and prevent any further enlargement of the bloc to the east.

Reuters · Jan 20, 2022