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Traffic chaos at Port of Dover eases slightly, though delays likely to continue

Gridlocked roads in the area on Saturday were caused by disruption to cross-Channel ferries and bad weather.

The Independent UK

Rescuers search for light aircraft with two onboard missing in Channel

P-28 plane took off from airfield in Warwickshire and was bound for Le Touquet in northern France

The Guardian - UK

Cross-Channel disruption plunges Dover into traffic chaos near port

The suspension of P&O services has reduced capacity at the port, while bad weather and a shortage of ferries have also been blamed for long queues.

The Independent UK

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Nearly 400 people arrive in UK after crossing Channel in small boats on Monday

Girl with no shoes among hundreds who arrived on UK shores after crossing from France

The Independent UK

Nearly 500 migrants intercepted crossing the Channel

The UK authorities brought 395 people ashore from 12 boats on Monday, while another 101 people on four boats were intercepted by the French.

The Independent UK

‘They’re coming this way!’ A day trip with dolphins in Lyme Bay

A marine nature trip into the English Channel from Weymouth proves an exhilarating introduction to an often unseen panoply of UK wildlife

The Guardian - UK

UK likely to criminalise illicit refugee crossings after MPs’ rebellion averted

Government wins string of votes to restore elements of controversial borders and nationality bill removed by Lords

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard Comment: P&O Ferries’ act of corporate disdain must not stand

It takes 90 minutes to cross the Channel by boat. It took P&O Ferries far less time to sack 800 employees — without warning — over Zoom. Like many in the transport sector, P&O was hit hard by pandemic restrictions and travel bans.

Evening Standard

Safety fears raised as P&O Ferries replaces seafarers with agency workers

Trade union Nautilus International said sailing ships across the Channel is ‘like walking across a six-lane motorway at rush hour’.

The Independent UK

The Home Office is now publishing stats on irregular migration - here's what they do (and don't) tell us

The Home Office has long collected statistics on irregular migration to the UK, but it has never published them officially until now. The statistics, first published in February 2022, are on detected instances of people entering the UK without immigration permission, such as on small boats, stowing away in vehicles…

The Conversation

More than 900 people intercepted attempting to cross Channel in single day

The UK authorities intercepted 405 people in 12 boats on Tuesday, while the French stopped another 538 people in 11 boats.

The Independent UK

Baby is among latest group of people to cross Channel in small boats

Migrants including several children brought to a Dungeness beach by RNLI.

The Independent UK

‘Fundamental questions remain’ over plan to draft military in to tackle Channel crossings, warn MPs

Government’s decision to put Navy in charge of counter-migration on English coast appears to have been ‘borne of desperation’, says Defence Committee

The Independent UK

Experts raise doubts over plan for Royal Navy to control Channel crossings

Exclusive: Critical defence select committee report to come amid growing Tory unease over No 10’s plan

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The Independent UK

RNLI and Border Force bring 99 people to safety as they cross English Channel

Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration Tom Pursglove said the rise in dangerous Channel crossings is ‘unacceptable’.

The Independent UK

Migrants brought ashore by RNLI and Border Force after crossing Channel

Those who arrived at Dover on Friday are the latest of more than 1,500 people to have made the crossing this year.

The Independent UK

France intercepts Russia-bound cargo ship ‘Baltic Leader’ in the English Channel and ‘escorts’ it to Boulogne

The ship has been suspected of belonging to a firm targeted by EU sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Emiliano Sala team-mate helped to organise flight before English Channel crash

Emiliano Sala died aged 28 in a 2019 plane crash in the English Channel. It emerged today that fellow Cardiff City player Jack McKay, 25, helped organise the flight

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The Independent UK

Channel crossings topped 28,500 in 2021, official figures reveal

It is the first time the Home Office has published data on ‘irregular’ migration.

The Independent UK

‘Wholly inappropriate’: Dismay as Priti Patel hires Australian asylum tsar to review Border Force

Former Australian foreign minister has vocally backed Channel push-backs and defended the home secretary from ‘widespread ridicule’

Evening Standard

Military planning 10-ship taskforce to intercept illegal migrants in Channel

Last year 28,431 people crossed the Channel in small boats –three times the number in 2020

The Independent UK

Navy ships can’t be used for Priti Patel’s plan to arrest Channel refugees, minister admits

Hunt on for suitable vessels, but James Heappey won’t say what they will be – in case ‘price goes up’

The Guardian - UK

When the Long Trick’s Over review – drowning in grief

A woman sets out to swim the Channel in memory of her dead sister in a play that is imperfectly written but brilliantly staged

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Ice fishing, NAIFC visits Channel/Catherine, a few Indiana coho

Ice fishing goes on around Chicago and leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus the North American Ice Fishing Circuit visits Channel and Catherine lakes on Sunday and there’s a few coho reported in Indiana.

Radio France Internationale

Media investigation claims migrants in Channel boat disaster contacted French rescue services

French investigative journalists say they have proof that migrants contacted rescue services just before their boat sank in the English Channel last November. After initially denying this was the case, French authorities now admit it was highly likely there was communication with the stranded vessel.

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