Anti-migrant vigilantes who have been harassing migrants on Calais beaches and slashing the small boats they use to cross the ...
Jono Pank and Isobel Bretherton won the GJW Direct Bloody Mary Pursuit Race, the sixth leg of the Seldén Sailjuice Winter ...
Six hardy Fireflys kicked off their 80th Anniversary year by joining the 125-boat fleet at Queen Mary Sailing Club for the ...
Salvation Army worker Charles Markie, 56, who was sacked after saying migrants should be sent back home 'on a f***ing boat' ...
2025 saw the second highest number of small boat crossings on record, according to the Home Office. The government has revealed 41,472 people arrived in the UK by coming across the English Channel in ...
EMERGENCY services have launched a major search for a missing man after an empty fishing boat washed ashore. HM Coastguard, Police Scotland and lifeboats were called to Inverbervie Beach, near ...
The British government is hoping a change in German law will help stop small boat crossings to the UK. The measures to criminalise the facilitation of migrant smuggling towards the UK, agreed more ...
Migrant arrivals in small boats have resumed after 28 days without crossings. Home Office figures showed a stretch between 14 November and yesterday (12 December) without arrivals, making it the ...
Record number of small boat crossings to UK in first half of 2025 The UK recorded its longest period without small boat migrant arrivals across the Channel in seven years, lasting 28 days until 12 ...
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THE French presidential frontrunner has vowed to stop small boat crossings and work with Nigel Farage to crack down on immigration in the UK. The Reform UK leader had a lunch with National Rally’s ...
The Lunna House Agreement represents multiple opportunities for cooperation between the two navies, and follows on from last year’s declaration of a joint strategic partnership between the countries.