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Congestion eases at English Channel port of Dover

Officials at the English Channel port of Dover on Sunday said operations had returned to normal, after two days of lengthy delays blamed on post-Brexit border checks.

Radio France Internationale

UK Channel port blames French officials for summer getaway chaos

Operators at the English Channel port of Dover on Friday accused French border officials of "ruining the start to the summer getaway", blaming understaffing for hours-long queues.

Radio France Internationale

Report: UK clearly overwhelmed by surge in migrant crossings

An independent inspection has found that Britain’s response to the increase in migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats is poor and officials are clearly overwhelmed

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Report slams UK’s handling of migrant and asylum seeker arrivals

The UK has failed to adequately respond to a surge in arrivals via the English Channel, independent inspection finds.

Al Jazeera

No interpreters, no photos, no fingerprints - Home Office failing to make proper checks on Channel arrivals

Photos and fingerprints are not being taken for all migrants and hundreds have disappeared from hotels

The Independent UK

39 suspects arrested over migrant smuggling on boats to UK

The suspected ringleader of a network that smuggled as many as 10,000 people on small boats across the English Channel to Britain has been arrested along with 38 others

The Independent UK

He's done it: Merewether's Craig Clarke conquers English Channel

Clarke tackled the swim he had dreamt about for 40 years

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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

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

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

444 people brought ashore after attempting to cross English Channel

This total in Kent marks the highest number of people since 562 were recorded on April 14 earlier this year.

The Independent UK

UK rescued 444 migrants from the English Channel crossing as Rwanda deportation flight cancelled

This was highest number since mid-April

The Independent UK

444 migrants attempt to cross English Channel in single day as Rwanda deportation flight cancelled

A total of 444 people were detected crossing the English Channel in small boats on Tuesday, the Government has revealed.

Evening Standard

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Over 260 migrants rescued from Channel as Boris Johnson defends Rwanda policy

More than 260 migrants were rescued from the English Channel on Tuesday, authorities said, as ministers faced growing criticism over the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

ABC News

Ocean swimmer Craig Clarke sets sights on English Channel, after training in waters off Newcastle

Hunter Valley mineworker Craig Clarke knows many people think he's "crazy", as he dives into the ocean at dawn in the middle of winter. But it's all in preparation for realising his dream of swimming the English Channel.

Newcastle Herald

Living the dream: swimmer Craig Clarke faces English Channel attempt

Clarke, 57, guesses he might take between 11 and 15 hours to complete the holy grail of ocean swims

Evening Standard

Liverpool fans cross English Channel in speedboat to reach Champions League Final

Desperate times call for despite measures and a group of Liverpool fans jumped in a speedboat to cross the English Channel after Easyjet cancelled a flight to the Champions League Final.

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Bangkok Post

The Island Where Abramovich Kept His $7 Billion Now Scrutinizing the Oligarch

For years authorities on this small island in the English Channel have tried to clean up its image as a tax haven for the super rich, marketing it as a well-governed offshore financial center enshrined in the rule of law.

Chronicle Live

Newcastle charity chief to swim from Dover to Calais to raise money and awareness for refugees

Action Foundation chief executive, Duncan McAuley, will lead a relay team in swimming the English Channel to raise awareness 'of the difficulties refugees face'

Daily Mirror

Two friends who crashed in the English Channel 'not qualified to fly in cloud'

Friends Lee Rogers and Brian Statham took off from an airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon bound for Le Touquet in France, but tragically crashed into the English Channel amid "freak weather conditions" and died

Manchester Evening News

Freak weather conditions saw pilots lose control and crash into English Channel

Investigators said neither men were qualified to fly in cloud

Wales Online

Pilots presumed dead in plane crash lost control in freak weather

The bodies of Lee Rogers and Brian Statham have never been found after their plane crashed in the English Channel

Daily Mirror

Freak weather conditions causes two pilots to crash in English Channel and die

Lee Rogers and Brian Statham had taken off from an airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon when their Piper Cherokee Arrow II lost radar contact before crashing into the sea

Radio France Internationale

Nice boss Galtier condemns fans mocking death of Nantes player Emiliano Sala

Nice boss Christophe Galtier has hit out at fans who shouted insults at Emiliano Sala, the Nantes player who was killed in January 2019 when the plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel.

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