Dozens of small boat migrants have been intercepted in the English Channel during a busy morning for Border Force and lifeboat teams today. A group could be seen getting off Border Force boat ...

The number of Channel small boat migrants to have reached Britain since Labour came to power is thought to have reached 30,000. There were scores of arrivals in Dover on Friday morning after UK ...

An illegal immigrant, who came to the UK on a small boat, was helping to smuggle more than 1,000 others into Europe within a month, a court was told. Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, an Egyptian ...

The trend contributes to the ongoing surge in small boat crossings, with more than 36,000 individuals making the perilous journey in 2024 alone, and more than 6,500 so far this year. Ahmed ...

By April 4 2020, the number of people who had made it to the UK by small boat was 465; by the same time a year later the figure was 1,134; by 2022 that figure had soared to 4,548 before coming ...

The record number of people arriving in the UK by “small boats” crossing the Channel may not slow this summer, border minister Dame Angela Eagle has admitted. She stressed a key bill to ...

This event, re-imagined for fictional purposes from the migrants’ point of view, comprises the second of three parts in Small Boat, a short and relentless novel by Vincent Delecroix. It’s the ...

FRANCE has finally admitted that it needs to start intercepting more small boats — and has even raised the possibility of taking back illegal migrants from Britain. President Emmanuel Macron ...

A still from a people-smugglers’ video advert for illegal immigration seen online Martin Hewitt, the UK’s border security commander, said that cutting the number of small boat crossings by ...

One person has died and 15 people rescued while trying to cross the English Channel overnight in an overloaded small boat – marking the second such fatality as many days. French authorities said ...