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Projection from Samphire Hoe near Dover by Eurotunnel.
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Six of the 12 people on my train carriage are not wearing masks.
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Took me 46 attempted calls, then an hour and ten minutes on hold, just to get to speak to the receptionist at my doctor’s surgery this morning.
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28 Conservative MPs and four peers have written to the Prime Minister calling for 'root-and-branch reform' of the asylum system which would prohibit claims from people who have passed through 'safe countries'.
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The Conservative MP Peter Bone has called for new legislation allowing deportations to Rwanda to be brought to the Commons immediately if current plans are stopped in the courts.
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11 migrants in a boat were returned to France this morning after being spotted by a ferry.
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Denmark has confirmed that it is in talks with Rwanda about transferring asylum seekers there, following a similar move announced by the UK last week.
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The Home Secretary has told a Lords Committee that 70% of people arriving by small boats are single men who are effectively economic migrants and not genuine asylum seekers.
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Britain stands to lose the £120 million it has paid to Rwanda if the plan to deport migrants is ruled unlawful. Rwandan officials confirmed the country has received the entire initial payment for the agreement signed in April and that the funds are already ‘committed’.
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Sussex Police say 76 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who have gone missing from hotels in Brighton and Hove remain unaccounted for.
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31 migrants in three boats have been returned to France - after they called for help when they got into difficulty in the Channel overnight.
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Dover MP on today’s Rwanda court action: ‘It's disappointing to see the courts being misused by political activists who support uncontrolled immigration. There is no need for anyone to get on a small boat. People are safe in France and many other places before France.’
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Green MP Caroline Lucas describes the government's latest policy on tackling migrant crossings as 'one of the most sickening crackdowns on people fleeing war, terror and climate chaos in living memory.'
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Immigration Minister Chris Philp has refused to apologise for using Napier Barracks to house asylum speakers, telling the House of Commons the accommodation was previously ‘good enough for our armed services’. Via
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From today, the Navy has taken over operational command from Border Force in the Channel.
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The BBC has contacted the Home Office to object to its use of BBC footage in a video posted on Twitter announcing the new Illegal Migration Bill. The video begins with clips of presenters from BBC News and 5 News reporting the number of migrants who have crossed the Channel.
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An Albanian national who arrived in the UK 24 days ago on a small boat has been removed to Albania.
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Despite some windy conditions at sea, seven migrants attempted to cross the Channel this morning. They got into difficulty off Dunkirk, and have been taken back to France.
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The Albanian Ambassador to the UK tells MPs his country is safe. He says some Albanians arriving in the UK are pretending to be victims of modern slavery.
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Real anger from MPs in the Commons today about the Home Office commandeering hotels to house migrants - without properly informing politicians or the local community.
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The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has appointed former National Crime Agency executive Dan O'Mahoney as the UK's Clandestine Channel Threat Commander. He will work to make the Channel route 'unviable' for small boat crossings.
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The Home Office says anyone caught piloting a boat carrying migrants in the Channel could face life behind bars from today, as part of the Nationality and Borders Act takes effect.
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Kent’s Council leaders: Secondary schools in Canterbury and Ashford currently have no year 7 and year 9 places for local children due to the ‘unexpected and therefore unplanned for arrivals of refugee children disproportionately placed by the Home Office in these two areas’.
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Boris Johnson says it’s costing almost £5 million a day to accommodate asylum seekers in hotels.
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The Home Secretary has authorised the Border Force to turn boats carrying migrants back at sea to prevent them from reaching the UK. The move is set to be opposed by the French authorities, who describe the technique as dangerous.
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The Immigration Minister says 48 migrants who didn't have the right to be in the UK were removed to Romania yesterday.
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A report by a former adviser to Theresa May, Nick Timothy, proposes anyone coming to the country illegally would never be allowed to settle in the UK. They would be given the choice to go home or to Rwanda.
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A protest will be held on the Kent coast this morning – calling for more safe and legal routes to be established for asylum seekers, following the death of four migrants this week. The organiser said: ‘We are sick of this avoidable and unnecessary waste of life.’
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P&O is currently reporting queues of lorries between 4 and 6 miles to get to the Port of Dover.
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Hippo stolen (words you don’t often type): a huge bronze hippopotamus has been taken from a garden-ornament business near Tunbridge Wells. It weighs in at almost three quarters of a tonne!
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20 migrants have crossed the Channel from France this morning in two boats. A third incident is ongoing. Yesterday, 103 people made the crossing - that’s more than in the whole of January last year.
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All lorries have been cleared from Manston. 15,526 coronavirus tests have now been carried out, with 36 positive results.
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Migrants who cross the Channel in small boats could be electronically tagged, under a pilot scheme being introduced by the Home Office.
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Plans to return 10 migrants who’d reached the UK by boat to Italy were abandoned yesterday following several legal claims. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, said: ‘Once again, our efforts to facilitate entirely legitimate and legal returns were frustrated by legal claims.’
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50 migrants have been told the government plans to send them to Rwanda.
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For those asking, there haven’t been any Channel crossings since last Tuesday. This is likely to be due to the windy weather, rather than the ‘Rwanda deterrent’.
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The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, is warning failure to stop the boats could cost the Conservatives the next election.
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The Home Secretary has ordered the first review of Border Force in more than a decade. Priti Patel has called in Alexander Downer, the ex-Australian High Commissioner to the UK, to scrutinise all areas of the agency's work including illegal migration, customs and security.
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The Home Office says 16 Albanians who entered the UK illegally were removed on a flight to Tirana this morning. It's thought to be the largest number on a single flight since the government tried to increase removals under a series of agreements with Albania.
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The Home Office has finally confirmed that 828 migrants reached the UK on 30 boats on Saturday - a new record for a single day.
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As Border Force were practising how to turn boats around in the Channel today, 163 migrants in seven boats reached the UK.
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Care4Calais: ‘The Rwanda plan won’t end small-boat crossings and it won’t keep refugees safe. There is a kinder and more effective way: giving safe passage to refugees in Calais.’
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Some Channel migrants are to be sent to Rwanda for processing, in a deal to be signed between the UK and the African country.
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People crossing the Channel will be housed in accommodation centres, rather than in hotels, according to the PM.
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The Albanian Ambassador says he would be happy to see Albanians in the UK claiming to be victims of modern slavery returned to their home country.
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Protesters are now blocking the entrance to the Manston site.
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More than 50 Conservative MPs have written to the Prime Minister urging him to change the law to reject immediately asylum claims by applicants from ‘safe’ countries such as Albania, and to return people who say they are victims of modern slavery to their home countries.
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A man is due to appear in court in Folkestone today, accused of piloting a boat carrying migrants across the Channel.
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A man who steered himself and 25 other migrants across the Channel in a small boat has been jailed for two and a half years. Hammad Al Shamari, a Kuwaiti Bidoon national, was found guilty of assisting unlawful immigration into the UK.
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The Home Office says it intends to return as many migrants who have arrived by boat as possible. There are returns flights planned in the coming days.
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The Leader of Gravesham Council has written a furious letter to the Home Secretary, saying people at a hotel in the area are being made homeless so the hotel can be used for asylum accommodation. John Burden says the authority’s concerns are being ignored.
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An e-petition calling on the government to do more to stop illegal immigration will be debated by MPs on Monday. It attracted more than 120,000 signatures.
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The Home Secretary tells the Home Affairs Committee: 'We have failed to control our borders.'
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460 migrants in 12 boats crossed the Channel yesterday. It takes this year’s total to more than 16,000 people.
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More than 100 refugee charities have signed an open letter to the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, calling for a ‘kind and effective’ system for those seeking asylum in the UK.
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Dover MP Natalie Elphicke on Rwanda ruling: ‘Left-wing organisations need to stop using endless appeals to overturn democracy and waste taxpayers’ money. It’s time they accepted the determination of UK Courts.’
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63 migrants arrived today on four boats. (Apologies to those who do not think I should be reporting on this.)
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Dover MP Natalie Elphicke on Channel crossings: ‘It’s clear that the attempts to tackle the Channel crisis are failing at every level. The situation is now out of control. Restoring order at the border is vital.’
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A group of 12 migrants is believed to have been dropped off by a boat on Slapton Sands beach in Dartmouth this morning. They were taken to two waiting vehicles, which then left the area.
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856 migrants on 19 boats were brought to shore yesterday by Border Force and the RNLI.
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After 11 days of no arrivals, this morning the migrant crossings have begun again.
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Appeal court judges have refused to stop the first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda tomorrow.
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The Home Office has revealed that a member of its immigration staff has been arrested and bailed for alleged immigration offences.
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990 migrants in 24 boats were brought to shore yesterday by the Border Force and RNLI.
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1,115 migrants reached the UK in the past two days on 40 boats. 491 people arrived yesterday. 624 people arrived on Friday.
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A police dog has been stabbed up to six times while detaining an armed man in south London.
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Refugee charities say a number of asylum seekers have disappeared from Home Office accommodation since the government announced plans to send some of them to Rwanda.
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The Dover MP Natalie Elphicke says she has been in contact with the new Home Secretary to ask for an early meeting to discuss Channel crossings.
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Migration Watch on today's boat figures: 'No wonder those who voted for the government believing immigration would be controlled and reduced feel betrayed.'
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Migrant boats: Another six boats – including a kayak – have been brought to Dover this morning.
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The Prime Minister says he want to detain and remove everybody who comes to the UK illegally: ‘I think it’s a common-sense system that the vast majority of people will think is reasonable.’
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12 people have been arrested, including three in the UK, following a joint investigation involving Belgium, France and the Netherlands into people smuggling across the Channel. 10 boats, 152 life jackets, and about €48,000 in cash were seized.
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The Dover MP Natalie Elphicke says the town is becoming almost as famous for its traffic jams as for its White Cliffs - following a third day of travel problems.
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The French authorities say police have broken up a major people-smuggling gang that had been sending migrants to Britain in dinghies, with more than a dozen boats and 700 life jackets seized.
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24 positive test results from 10,000 hauliers tested in Kent.
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The Home Office has clarified it’s spending £4.7 million per day on hotels to accommodate asylum seekers and people resettled from Afghanistan. It told MPs yesterday the figure was £1.2 million - which it has put down to a ‘drafting error’.
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972 migrants in 22 boats were brought to Dover yesterday, taking this year’s total to 40,916 people.
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Migration Watch UK is calling on the government to continue releasing daily data on the number of people reaching the UK by boat. In future, the figures may only be released four times a year, which critics say would be a ‘huge affront to transparency and democracy.’
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14 migrants who had previously claimed asylum in other European countries have been returned to mainland Europe this morning. The Immigration Minister, Chris Philp, says this was 'despite last-minute vexatious legal claims designed to frustrate the process.'
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Priti Patel on Rwanda flight cancellation: ‘We will not be deterred from doing the right thing and delivering our plans to control our nation’s borders. Our legal team are reviewing every decision made on this flight and preparation for the next flight begins now.’
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Four Albanian nationals have been arrested in connection with a beach landing in St Margaret’s near Dover yesterday.
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A man has been charged with criminal damage after the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square was defaced. Benjamin Clark of Wilton Crescent in Hertford is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
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442 migrants in 10 boats reached the UK yesterday - the highest daily figure this year. A further 53 migrants in a single boat were returned to France after they got into difficulty in the Channel.
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482 migrants reached the UK yesterday on 21 boats - a record number for a single day.
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Kent Police would like to speak to these two men after a tawny owl was reportedly killed in Upchurch using catapults.
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202 migrants in five boats crossed the Channel yesterday.
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87 migrants reached the UK yesterday on three boats. The French stopped one crossing involving 10 people.
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183 migrants reached the UK yesterday in seven boats.
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The Immigration Minister says there were ‘unacceptable levels of violence and disorder’ overnight at the Harmondsworth immigration-removal centre following a power cut. He says the perpetrators will - where appropriate - be removed from the country ‘as swiftly as is practicable’.
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The number of migrants to reach the UK so far this year by boat is now more than 3,000.
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67 migrants reached the UK on two boats today. It brings the total for this month to 1,119 people – five times the number for last January.
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321 migrants in seven boats reached UK waters and were brought to shore yesterday, according to figures released by the MOD.
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669 migrants reached the UK yesterday on 22 boats. It brings the total number for this year to more than 17,000 people - double the number for the whole of last year.
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144 migrants reached the UK in seven boats today. 336 people in 19 boats arrived yesterday.
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