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Channel crossings by migrants in small boats: Key numbers

Afghan migrants accounted for the single largest group of arrivals in the first nine months of the year.

Evening Standard

Migrant Channel crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Home Office figures show 122 people made the journey on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Weather blamed for small boat arrivals rising to 20,000 under Labour

Home secretary to highlight data showing record number of calm autumnal days that made Channel crossings likely

The Guardian - UK

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Channel migrant crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Some 50,637 arrivals were recorded during Rishi Sunak’s premiership, which began on October 25 2022.

Evening Standard

France can no longer bear ‘entire burden’ of defending UK border, warns minister on migrant crisis

Bruno Retailleau, the new French interior minister, has threatened to denounce the Le Touquet agreement that allows Britain to carry out border checks on French soil

The Independent UK

‘We can live or die, but we are going to the UK’: the Calais refugees clinging desperately to a dream

Seventy-five people have died or gone missing trying to cross the Channel in small boats this year. What keeps them coming, despite the ever harsher attempts to deter them?

The Guardian - UK

Number of Vietnamese migrants crossing Channel on small boats soars 177% in a year

Vietnamese migrants are believed to be flying to Hungary and then travelling onwards to northern France

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Restaurants, builders and food firms illegally employing workers face 'stronger' action, says Yvette Cooper

The Home Secretary admitted some of the pull-factors attracting people to risk their lives crossing the Channel in ‘small boats’ needed to be tackled

Evening Standard

‘Nothing left except quivering protoplasm’: the man who pedalled a plane across the Channel

In 1979 a group of neurodivergent men embarked on an epic crossing, now immortalised on screen in The Flight of Bryan

The Guardian - UK

Britain must not copy Italy’s inhumane migrant deals

Letter: Tim Naor Hilton says we should start providing safe routes for asylum seekers to prevent people dying in the Channel

The Guardian - UK

Tories say migration deals ‘won’t work’ as Government vows to ‘tackle upstream’

The comments come as official figures show that over 1,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in the last week.

Evening Standard

Fighter jets scrambled after Russian aircraft flies over North Sea

The incident comes after the Royal Navy shadowed Russian military vessels passing through the English Channel over the past week.

Evening Standard

RAF fighter jets scrambled as Russian military plane flies over North Sea towards Britain

Two Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland were ordered to monitor a Russian Bear-F aircraft

Evening Standard

Man suspected of supplying boats to people smugglers arrested in Amsterdam

Turkish national accused of supplying engines and boats to cross-Channel smugglers in Belgium and northern France

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The Independent UK

‘Major supplier’ of migrant boats for Channel migrant crossings arrested

So far this year more than 32,000 people arrived in the UK having made the journey across the Channel by boat

The Guardian - UK

Nine boats carrying 572 people intercepted while crossing Channel

Total number of arrivals by small boats reaches 32,691 this year, up 22% on same time last year but fewer than in 2022

International Business Times

'I Live In Hope': A Channel Drama Survivor's Search For Missing Dad

Osama Ahmed's life took a dramatic turn one night in October when the small boat that was to carry him and his father to the English coast sank shortly after setting out from France.

Evening Standard

Nine boats carrying 572 people intercepted crossing the Channel

The figures bring the total number of migrants to arrive so far this year to 32,691, higher than in 2023 but lower than at the same point in 2022.

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Evening Standard

Women and children among latest arrivals on small boats crossing Channel

The latest figures bring the total for the year so far to 31,975.

Evening Standard

More than 3,000 migrants crossed Channel in busiest fortnight so far this year

A total of 3,197 people arrived in the UK between October 24 and November 6, according to latest Home Office data.

The Guardian - UK

‘Smash the gangs’ is just Keir Starmer’s version of ‘stop the boats’. It won’t solve the migrant crisis

The PM echoes Tony Blair in his pledge to be tough on crime – but he is less interested in the causes behind the Channel crossings, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

The Independent UK

Has Starmer finally found the best way to stop the small boats?

Analysis: Most tactics employed by British governments to address the Channel crisis have proved unsuccessful, but replicating the apparent success of the Albania deal could yield Starmer some positive results

Evening Standard

Police chief warns of growing people smuggling threat as Channel crossings rise

Interpol’s Richard Chambers said people smuggling was a crime that was ‘developing fast’.

Radio France Internationale

French court issues tough sentences in Channel smuggling trial

A French court has sentenced 18 people – mainly Iraqi Kurds – to prison terms of up to 15 years for organising a major migrant-smuggling ring that transported people across the English Channel in small, flimsy boats.

Evening Standard

More than 50 migrants rescued in Channel as bodies found at sea

An investigation has been opened by the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor’s office after the French coastguard found bodies in the water.

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