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Safety fears raised as P&O Ferries replaces seafarers with agency workers

Trade union Nautilus International said sailing ships across the Channel is ‘like walking across a six-lane motorway at rush hour’.

The Independent UK

The Home Office is now publishing stats on irregular migration - here's what they do (and don't) tell us

The Home Office has long collected statistics on irregular migration to the UK, but it has never published them officially until now. The statistics, first published in February 2022, are on detected instances of people entering the UK without immigration permission, such as on small boats, stowing away in vehicles…

The Conversation

More than 900 people intercepted attempting to cross Channel in single day

The UK authorities intercepted 405 people in 12 boats on Tuesday, while the French stopped another 538 people in 11 boats.

The Independent UK

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Baby is among latest group of people to cross Channel in small boats

Migrants including several children brought to a Dungeness beach by RNLI.

The Independent UK

‘Fundamental questions remain’ over plan to draft military in to tackle Channel crossings, warn MPs

Government’s decision to put Navy in charge of counter-migration on English coast appears to have been ‘borne of desperation’, says Defence Committee

The Independent UK

Experts raise doubts over plan for Royal Navy to control Channel crossings

Exclusive: Critical defence select committee report to come amid growing Tory unease over No 10’s plan

The Guardian - UK

RNLI and Border Force bring 99 people to safety as they cross English Channel

Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration Tom Pursglove said the rise in dangerous Channel crossings is ‘unacceptable’.

The Independent UK

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Migrants brought ashore by RNLI and Border Force after crossing Channel

Those who arrived at Dover on Friday are the latest of more than 1,500 people to have made the crossing this year.

The Independent UK

France intercepts Russia-bound cargo ship ‘Baltic Leader’ in the English Channel and ‘escorts’ it to Boulogne

The ship has been suspected of belonging to a firm targeted by EU sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Emiliano Sala team-mate helped to organise flight before English Channel crash

Emiliano Sala died aged 28 in a 2019 plane crash in the English Channel. It emerged today that fellow Cardiff City player Jack McKay, 25, helped organise the flight

Daily Mirror

Channel crossings topped 28,500 in 2021, official figures reveal

It is the first time the Home Office has published data on ‘irregular’ migration.

The Independent UK

‘Wholly inappropriate’: Dismay as Priti Patel hires Australian asylum tsar to review Border Force

Former Australian foreign minister has vocally backed Channel push-backs and defended the home secretary from ‘widespread ridicule’

The Independent UK

Military planning 10-ship taskforce to intercept illegal migrants in Channel

Last year 28,431 people crossed the Channel in small boats –three times the number in 2020

Evening Standard

Navy ships can’t be used for Priti Patel’s plan to arrest Channel refugees, minister admits

Hunt on for suitable vessels, but James Heappey won’t say what they will be – in case ‘price goes up’

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

When the Long Trick’s Over review – drowning in grief

A woman sets out to swim the Channel in memory of her dead sister in a play that is imperfectly written but brilliantly staged

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Ice fishing, NAIFC visits Channel/Catherine, a few Indiana coho

Ice fishing goes on around Chicago and leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus the North American Ice Fishing Circuit visits Channel and Catherine lakes on Sunday and there’s a few coho reported in Indiana.

Radio France Internationale

Media investigation claims migrants in Channel boat disaster contacted French rescue services

French investigative journalists say they have proof that migrants contacted rescue services just before their boat sank in the English Channel last November. After initially denying this was the case, French authorities now admit it was highly likely there was communication with the stranded vessel.

The Guardian - UK

Two-thirds of UK asylum seekers on small boats had hypothermia or injuries

Exclusive: hundreds of people arrived for processing in Dover with burns and suspected broken bones

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The Independent UK

Home Office refuses to apologise to 12 innocent asylum seekers wrongly jailed for steering Channel dinghies

Men were falsely labelled as ‘people smugglers’ after being prosecuted for crimes they did not commit

The Independent UK

Convictions quashed for asylum seekers wrongly jailed for steering dinghies across Channel

Court of Appeal says same ‘error of law’ was seen in 12 cases quashed so far, as more asylum seekers fight convictions

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted to know what the human body is capable of’: the drama set entirely in water

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s new play is a story of sisters, pain and the gruelling long-distance swim to cross the Channel

Daily Mirror

Royal Navy tasked with stopping 100% of migrants trying to cross the Channel

Critics say that is such a tall order it will be impossible to deliver - and should not be the Navy’s job anyway.

The Independent UK

Migrants forced to wait on concrete floor for hours at Dover processing site, say Border Force staff

Exclusive: Immigration Services Union condemns lack of resources at reception site and warns Home Office is now to move arrivals to new facility that is ‘so far off minimum health and safety requirements’

The Guardian - UK

‘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

France 24

Brexit, one year on: Is life in the UK better without Europe?

Is the United Kingdom better off without Europe? Did the country make a risky choice by leaving the EU one year ago? Our reporters Jonathan Walsh and Clovis Casali crossed the Channel to understand the consequences of Brexit on the daily lives of citizens. From London to Belfast, via Boston…

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