The Latest Breaking News from the English Channel

But the Home Secretary said there is no suggestion the UK could use push-back tactics on migrant boats in the English Channel.

To discourage migrants, the U.K. wants to deport to Rwanda some who arrive by boat without a visa. Human rights groups have sued, and the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Oct. 9.

French prosecutors have charged four suspects, two Iraqis and two Sudanese, with involuntary manslaughter over the deaths of at least six migrants whose boat sank in the English Channel last weekend.

Some 60 people went overboard after their punctured dinghy overturned in the English Channel

SIX people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank in the English Channel. 

Several migrants have been rescued from the English Channel as the number of people crossing on small boats in the last five-and-a-half years…

Total crossings so far this year are 19% below the equivalent period in 2022.

As part of attempts to prevent people crossing the English Channel in small boats, the UK government has been briefing the press that it is considering sending arrivals to Ascension Island – a remote piece of land in the Atlantic Ocean inhabited by fewer than 900 people. This idea was…

The UK may leave a major international human rights agreement to help tackle small boats crossing the English Channel.