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English Channel

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Emergency services have been deployed to the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais after a migrant boat capsized

Tragedy in the English Channel: At least 12 migrants die and two missing after overcrowded boat ‘ripped open’ and capsized

At least 12 people have died and two are missing after a…
Barzan Kamal Majeed (pictured) masterminded an organised crime group that smuggled an estimated 10,000 migrants across the English Channel

Revealed: Europe's most wanted people smuggler 'The Scorpion' was arrested last year… but he was then mysteriously RELEASED from Iraqi jail despite having 10-year sentence

By Rebecca Camber Crime And Security Editor Published: 17:39 EDT, 14 May…
Jessica Hepburn, the first woman in the world to achieve ¿The Sea, Street, Summit Challenge¿

In my 30s I had it all, a partner, high-flying job and plans to start a family. But my dreams of motherhood were dashed in a decade of failed IVF, Then I lost the man of my dreams. Could Everest heal my broken heart?

I was on top of the world. Literally. The summit of Everest,…
An alleged Albanian crime boss has had his British citizenship revoked after being accused of smuggling hundreds of migrants across the English Channel in small boats. Migrants are pictured packed tightly onto a dinghy attempting to cross the Channel near Dover in 2020

Albanian 'crime boss' who 'illegally entered Britain in 1999 and was subsequently given a UK passport before smuggling hundreds of asylum seekers across the Channel' has citizenship revoked

An alleged Albanian crime boss has had his British citizenship revoked after…
A Sudanese man has been arrested in Dover following the death of a woman who is believed to have died while trying to cross the English channel. Pictured: Migrants crossing the English Channel in August

Sudanese man, 21, is arrested in Dover after woman 'died trying to cross the English Channel'

Sudanese man, 21, is arrested in Dover after woman ‘died trying to…
On October 1, 1986, the bodies of Paul Bellion (right) and Lorraine Glasby (left), a pair of British teachers, were found bound and gagged - with gunshots to the back of their necks

Tied up in a cornfield and executed side-by-side with a rifle 37 years ago… but could there finally be justice for two British teachers murdered during French cycling holiday? Detectives reopen case that has baffled cops for decades

Even 37 years later, the memory of a chilling cold case still…
Danger: Migrants crossing Channel from the coast of France on one of the new boats

Do you want a custom-made rubber dinghy? Well now you can order one from China and Turkey as crooked companies are revealed to be manufacturing boats specifically for people smugglers to use

Looking for a custom-made rubber dinghy to ferry migrants to Britain? Well,…
The new rules will stipulate that those on electronic tag must comply with any directions from the Home Office

Illegal migrants arriving into UK across the English Channel could be forced to wear electronic tags under new 'stop the boats' proposals

Illegal migrants arriving into UK across the English Channel could be forced…
Witnesses have branded people smugglers as 'brutal' and 'utterly ruthless' when migrants were thrown overboard after a fight about space broke out on a small, overcrowded dinghy. The incident occurred off the coast of northern France. Pictured: File photo of Border Force rescuing migrants who travelled to Dover in small boats

'Utterly ruthless' people smuggler threw migrants overboard when fight broke out about space on small dinghy

An ‘utterly ruthless’ people smuggler threw migrants overboard when a fight about…
Ibrahim Al Amin, 20, said he was fleeing persecution from a tribe in Sudan to find refuge in Britain, but was instead arrested for assisting unlawful entry into the country under new powers designed to target smugglers (file photograph)

Asylum seeker, 20, who piloted boat carrying 45 people across Channel is jailed

Asylum seeker, 20, who piloted boat carrying 45 people across Channel claiming…