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Govenment plan to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda condemned as 'utterly inhumane' by North East groups

The government claims the scheme will make the system 'fairer' and tackle dangerous channel crossings

Chronicle Live

Johnson puts Navy in charge of Channel as he defends Rwanda migration plan

The Prime Minister accepted the plans to fly some asylum seekers more than 4,000 miles to East Africa will face legal challenges.

The Independent UK

UK asylum seekers sent to Rwanda? That takes punishment of fellow humans to a new level

The government wants to pay large sums of your money to a system already proven to be cruel and ineffective, says Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council

The Guardian - UK

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Rwanda asylum seeker scheme may face court fight as Boris Johnson sends Navy into Channel

Boris Johnson unveiled a controversial scheme to fly people deemed to have arrived "illegally" in the UK to Rwanda as he was accused of trying to distract from his Partygate woes

Daily Mirror

People seeking asylum in the UK are to be flown 4,000 miles to Rwanda

The Government is signing a £13220million deal with the African nation

Chronicle Live

Boris Johnson sets out plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda amid furious backlash

The Royal Navy will take over responsibility for tackling people crossing the English Channel

Evening Standard

Rwanda to take asylum seekers from UK for processing under Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Independent UK

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UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda under controversial new deal

Critics slam plan as unethical and unworkable but PM Johnson says it will ‘save lives’ and disrupt people-smuggling.

Al Jazeera

5,000-plus migrants thought to have reached UK this year after crossing Channel

Crossings resumed this week, with large numbers of people arriving in Kent, after few tried the journey in the last week of March amid bad weather.

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers expected to be flown to Rwanda for processing in Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries: another vessel detained after ‘deficiencies’ identified

Decision over Spirit of Britain comes as firm planned to resume cross-Channel services for Easter weekend

The Guardian - UK

Two friends killed after plane crashes into English Channel - and bodies still missing

Lee Rogers and Brian Statham took off from Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 2, heading for Le Touquet, France, when they crashed into the English Channel

Daily Mirror

Long wait times at Dover crossing costing transport companies ‘£800 per lorry’

The suspension of P&O services at the Channel crossing is causing perishable products to go bad.

The Independent UK

Documents of Brits involved in English Channel plane crash wash up on beach

Official documents belonging to two British nationals involved in a light plane crash in the English Channel have washed up on a beach in France.

Evening Standard

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Airlines and cross-Channel services brace for busiest weekend since Covid

Air travellers told to allow extra time for queues, while Eurotunnel expects rising traffic and P&O ferries remain suspended

The Independent UK

Glitch in post-Brexit customs system adds to major Channel lorry chaos on Kent roads

A 23-mile stretch of the M20 is closed amid HMRC technical problems and a ferry shortage

The Independent UK

Every misleading statement Boris Johnson has made to parliament since the general election

Misleading the country: The prime minister has failed formally to correct at least 17 false statements since the 2019 general election

The Independent UK

Chaos in Kent as 23-mile stretch of M20 closed due to ferry shortage

Delays to Channel crossings are being driven by the suspension of P&O Ferries sailings after the operator sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice.

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Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson dealt avalanche of Lords defeats over his 'inhumane' refugees Bill

Lords voted to remove the harshest elements of the Nationality and Borders Bill - which a Bishop branded 'inhumane', and an ex-Supreme Court justice said 'flagrantly breaches' our human rights requirements

Evening Standard

Search for Brits missing after plane crash in English Channel called off

The search for two British nationals whose light plane crashed in the English Channel has been called off – as it emerged the aircraft went down in a snowstorm.

Evening Standard

City of London executive in Channel plane crash ‘was on day trip to France’

A British plane owned by a City of London executive that crashed into the English Channel with two people onboard was on a day trip to France organised by the South Warwickshire Flying School, it emerged on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Traffic chaos at Port of Dover eases slightly, though delays likely to continue

Gridlocked roads in the area on Saturday were caused by disruption to cross-Channel ferries and bad weather.

The Guardian - UK

Rescuers search for light aircraft with two onboard missing in Channel

P-28 plane took off from airfield in Warwickshire and was bound for Le Touquet in northern France

The Independent UK

Cross-Channel disruption plunges Dover into traffic chaos near port

The suspension of P&O services has reduced capacity at the port, while bad weather and a shortage of ferries have also been blamed for long queues.

The Independent UK

Nearly 400 people arrive in UK after crossing Channel in small boats on Monday

Girl with no shoes among hundreds who arrived on UK shores after crossing from France

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