Elon Musk ignited a new controversy by suggesting the English Channel be renamed the “George Washington Canal.” The idea, posted on his platform X, follows a similar proposal by Donald Trump, who, ...

There have been 8,064 arrivals so far in 2025, including 656 on Saturday, according to provisional Home Office figures.

Some 656 people arrived in 11 small boats on Saturday, taking the total number of people crossing in 2025 so far to 8,064, ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that a lack of coordination between U.K. police and intelligence agencies is partly responsible for a surge in the number of migrants reaching the U.K.

PA Wire The Government has vowed to crack down on people smuggling and the gangs that facilitate migrant journeys across the English Channel. A Home Office spokesperson said: "We all want to end ...

– The Government will expand right-to-work checks to cover gig-economy workers by making amendments to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill. Businesses that do not carry out the checks ...

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 ...

French authorities have been accused of giving illegal migrants lifejackets to cross the English Channel, amid damning new claims Britain's small boats crisis is getting worse under Labour.

A migrant has died trying to cross the English Channel into Britain today. A rescue operation was launched by French authorities off the coast of Hardelot, around 25 miles from Calais, this morning.

PARIS, March 20 (Reuters) - One person has died after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel from France got into difficulties overnight, said a local French authority on ...

Two people were rescued from the water, with one suffering from hypothermia while the other was in cardiac arrest and did not survive. Home Office data shows that 289 people arrived in the UK in the ...

The number of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel has set a new record for the first four months of the year. There have been 8,064 arrivals so far in 2025, including ...