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The Latest Breaking News from Calais

Fire breaks out on ferry carrying 183 people across the Channel

Rescuers scrambled lifeboats to the scene between Dover and Calais

Wales Online

World's last Meccano factory to close next year in France

Lille (France) (AFP) - The owners of the world's last dedicated Meccano toy factory have said it will close by next year after more than half a century in France because of rising costs.

AFP

Bristol children returning to UK from half-term trips delayed by Calais strike action

A Bristol school's ski trip was delayed on return.

Bristol Post

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Ashfield MP Lee Anderson accuses Calais refugee charities of encouraging migrants to cross Channel

The Care4Calais charity has hit back at the Nottinghamshire MP's comments

Nottingham Post

Lee Anderson says Calais refugee charities ‘just as bad as people smugglers’ REDIRECTED

Campaigners deny Tory deputy chair’s claim they ‘encourage’ people to make crossing

The Independent UK

Refugee charity rejects Tory vice-chair’s claim they are ‘just as bad as people-smugglers’

Care4Calais says it offers refugees aid and dignity and does not want them to cross Channel by dangerous means

The Guardian - UK

Children returning from school trips delayed for six hours amid Calais strikes

Home Office rejects suggestions strikes by Border Force staff in Calais, Dunkirk, Dover and Coquelles impacting wait times

The Guardian - UK

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Lee Anderson claims Calais refugee charities ‘just as bad as people smugglers’

Controversial MP accuses organisations of ‘fuelling’ migrants’ desire to cross Channel in small boats

Evening Standard

Lee Anderson says Calais refugee charities ‘just as bad as people smugglers’

The MP for Ashfield, who is known for his controversial views, was appointed Conservative deputy chairman by Rishi Sunak.

The Independent UK

Ferry passengers stuck at Calais in six-hour waits while returning to UK from holidays

School trips were amongst the hundreds of ferry passengers caught up in the chaos after Border Force strikes resulted in major delays of up to six hours at the Calais to Dover crossing

Daily Mirror

Brits heading on half term holidays warned to prepare for long delays

The Government has issued a warning to travellers ahead of members of the Public and Commercial Services union based in Dover and French ports including Calais and Dunkirk going on strike

Daily Mirror

Dover-Calais ferries halted for most of day due to French strikes

Warning that ‘the port and local road network in and around Dover may be busier than usual’ on eve of half-term getaway

The Independent UK

Border Force strike: cover staff report getting just two days’ training

Exclusive: Some NCA staff in Calais say they had little official training before being put to work at passport control

The Guardian - UK

1,000 Border Force officers at major ports to strike during half-term

Members of the PCS union in Dover, Calais, Coquelles and Dunkirk will strike on February 17, 18, 19 and 20

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Daily Mirror

Jet setting pooch racks up more than 30,000 miles of luxury air travel

Moët the dog has spent time in Florida, the UK, the South of France, Paris Monaco, Italy, Calais, Lisbon, Madrid and Barcelona over the past two years of jet-setting

The Guardian - UK

French coastguard rescues 83 people from small boats crossing Channel

Passengers taken to Calais after two vessels got into difficulty near Gravelines on north coast of France

The Guardian - UK

If you ever doubt the hateful effects of Tory migrant policy, go to Calais and see what I’ve seen

The French create the terror and squalor in refugee camps – and UK ministers pay them to do it, says former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn

Evening Standard

Dover-Calais ferry services suspended due to French industrial action

P&O Ferries said it has an ‘optimised’ sailing schedule in light of the 24-hour strike

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Smugglers offer migrants £435 'Christmas deal' to cross Channel in overcrowded boats

People smugglers are piling desperate migrants in Calais into dangerously overloaded boats to make the perilous Channel crossing to the UK, days after four die in tragic sinking horror at sea

Daily Mirror

Knife fights and murders at Calais migrant camp 'run by Kurdish mafia with fear'

Hundreds of men, women and children shiver in cold and terror at 'Kurdish mafia-controlled' camps in France as they try to reach Britain in the hope of starting a new, safer life

Daily Mirror

EuroTunnel says its services won't be impacted by strikes over Christmas

Le Shuttle services - which run from Folkestone, Kent to Calais - continue to run as normal, unaffected by strikes, over a Christmas period otherwise filled with industrial action

Reuters

French police stop around 50 migrants on way to Britain

French police stopped close to 50 migrants on Tuesday from attempting to cross the English Channel to Britain after mild weather and calm waters led a growing number of people to undertake the dangerous journey in recent days.

The Guardian - UK

A year after 27 drowned crossing the channel, migrants still suffer in Calais

Asylum-seekers sleep rough, forge friendships and withstand harassment from police as they seek passage to the UK

The Independent UK

Asylum-seekers’ human rights ‘routinely abused’ in Calais, Rishi Sunak warned

Government ‘mocking’ those fleeing war with Suella Braverman’s ‘invasion’ rhetoric, Calais Appeal says

The Independent UK

Trials for new EU border system which could cause ‘continued disruption’

Port of Dover officials have been invited to Calais to view tests of technology for the EU’s incoming Entry/Exit System

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