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'I'm in the zone now': Clarke set to swim English Channel

Clarke, 57, says he is feeling strong as he prepares to tackle the 34-kilometre swim

Newcastle Herald

NCA says tackling people smuggling is priority as 15 held over Channel deaths

Twenty-seven people died when the boat they were in sank off the coast of Calais in November.

The Independent UK

Highest number of migrants so far this year crossed Channel in June

The figures indicate 51,824 people have made the crossing since 2018.

Wales Online

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10 arrested by French police after deadly migrant boat sinking in Channel

French police are holding 10 people suspected to be involved in the November 2021 English Channel drowning, a judicial source claims

Evening Standard

French police hold 10 suspects over migrant deaths during Channel crossing

French police were on Thursday holding 10 people suspected of involvement in the November 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the English Channel.

Radio France Internationale

Women and children among latest to make Channel crossing in small boats

The crossings bring the total to have arrived in the UK so far this year to 12,606.

The Independent UK

Small boat with 25 people makes Channel crossing despite choppy seas

The total who have made the dangerous crossing so far this year is 12,337.

The Independent UK

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Migrants crossing the Channel double in past year

More than 12,300 migrants have risked their lives to reach Britain in small boats crossing the Channel so far this year – at least double the number in the same period of 2021.

Evening Standard

Channel crossings continue as traffickers face life sentence under new law

A total of 153 migrants on four boats were intercepted by the UK authorities on Monday.

The Independent UK

The Standard View: G7 leaders need to display show of unity for Ukraine

Assembling in the Bavarian Alps of south-west Germany, there appeared to be great unity among G7 leaders for ramping up military support for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia. This was particularly the case between Boris Johnson and French president Emmanuel Macron, where a détente seemed to break out following months,…

Evening Standard

IRA blast took both my legs and shattered my pelvis - now I'm rowing the Channel

Amputee former soldier tells how Army pals risked their own lives to save him after bomb blast as he joins team of heroes rowing across the Channel to raise money for wounded service personnel

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson says he'll tell Prince Charles to ‘keep an open mind’ about Rwanda asylum seekers plan

Boris Johnson will meet Prince Charles for a showdown cuppa in Rwanda after the future King reportedly branded Britain’s £120m deal to send unwanted asylum seekers to the capital Kigali 'appalling'

Daily Mirror

New asylum seekers still being locked up for removal to Rwanda despite questions over legality of policy

Exclusive: Ministers accused of being ‘untethered from any sense of morality or legality’ as government continues to detain people under policy that may be ruled unlawful next month

The Independent UK

‘Impossible’ to say how many Rwanda flights needed to deter Channel crossings

The Home Office permanent secretary said the controversial scheme’s success should be measured by the number of journeys deterred.

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Channel crossings resume following quiet weekend

A total of 49 people were brought to Dover on Tuesday.

Daily Mirror

Priti Patel says migrants 'exploiting' Britain as she launches fresh attack on European judges

The European Court of Human Rights effectively grounded a deportation flight to Rwanda last week just minutes before it was due to take off

The Independent UK

More than 300 crossed Channel in small boats to reach UK this weekend

Over 1,400 have been brought ashore in the past seven days, in what has been the busiest week for crossings since April

Wales Online

People arriving in UK illegally to be tagged in new Home Office trial

Those tagged will have to regularly report in person to authorities, may be subject to a curfew or excluded from certain locations, and failure to comply could see them returned to detention or prosecuted

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The Independent UK

Home Office begins 12-month trial electronically tagging Channel migrants

New figures have revealed the number of people crossing the Channel to reach Britain this year has passed 11,000.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’d have perished’: woman, 91, returns to Jersey where she fled Nazis in 1940

Irène Probstein travels from US to remember her family’s escape and thank Channel islanders who rescued them

The Independent UK

11,000 people have crossed the Channel to reach Britain this year

A total of 146 people were brought to Britain on four small boats on Thursday.

The National (Scotland)

UK slammed over 'xenophobic' policies as Raab plots major human rights changes

DOMINIC Raab has been slated by the SNP’s Joanna Cherry for planning to introduce a new Bill of Rights designed to speed up removal of Channel…

Evening Standard

233 more migrants attempt to cross English Channel amid Rwanda flights storm

Six boats were intercepted in the Channel on Wednesday

The Independent UK

233 people brought to UK after attempting to cross English Channel

According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Defence, six boats were intercepted in the Channel on Wednesday.

The Conversation

Rwanda deportations: what is the European Court of Human Rights, and why did it stop the UK flight from taking off?

A flight chartered to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda as part of a new government policy was grounded following an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The plan to deport asylum seekers for processing in Rwanda is intended, the government says, to deter people…

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