Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

BIZARRE: 7 - What They Never Told You

Chinese broadcaster failed to pay Ofcom £300,000 for rule breaches, court told

Star China Media Ltd previously ran an English-language news channel named China Global Television Network but was stripped of its licence in 2021.

Evening Standard

Number of Channel crossing arrivals ‘frustrating’, says border security chief

Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt said he finds the numbers very challenging but that work to stop crossings was always going to take time.

Evening Standard

What is the difference between legal, illegal and irregular migration?

The PA news agency takes a look at some of the language around the issue of migration.

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

French police use pepper spray on migrants trying to cross English Channel

French police have used pepper spray to stop migrants from trying to cross the English Channel.

The Independent UK

Two Kent sites earmarked as holding areas in event of EU border system issues

The sites have been chosen as part of long-term efforts to boost Kent’s resilience to problems with Channel crossings.

Evening Standard

26 migrants sent to France while nearly 10,000 have arrived since deal

Crossings are continuing as around 100 men and women seeking to make the journey across the Channel gathered on Gravelines beach on Friday morning.

Evening Standard

Waterproof Rolex worn by first British woman to swim the Channel up for auction

Mercedes Gleitze’s Rolex Oyster survived more than 10 hours submerged in sea water when she undertook her ‘vindication swim’ of 1927.

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Keir Starmer: 'No golden ticket' to UK as automatic settlement and family reunion rights for asylum seekers to end

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would help ‘address the pull factors driving dangerous and illegal small boats’ crossing the Channel from France

Evening Standard

Migrants attempt longer Channel crossing after recent deaths

After a quiet morning in northern France, a large black dinghy carrying migrants was pictured having set off from a beach in north-west France.

Evening Standard

Single boat carrying record 125 migrants crosses Channel to UK

This figure surpasses the previous record, when 106 people arrived on what was described as a ‘mega dinghy’

The Independent UK

Boat carrying record 125 migrants crossed Channel to UK on Saturday

The number of people on board breaks a previous record from August, when 106 migrants crossed to the UK on what was dubbed a ‘mega dinghy’ by media.

Evening Standard

Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat

Body of teenager found on beach in northern France after three other people die in Channel crossings on Saturday

The Guardian - UK

Child dies off French coast in small boat Channel crossing attempt – reports

An investigation has been launched into the incident at Ecault beach, in Saint-Etienne-au-Mont.

Evening Standard

Child dies after falling off ‘overcrowded’ small boat while crossing Channel

The tragedy is the 21st death this year during small boat crossings

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

International Business Times

Two Women Die Trying To Cross Channel From France

Two women, both Somalis, died Saturday while trying to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities said, adding that the body of another migrant had been found in a canal.

The Independent UK

Two women die while crossing Channel from France to UK

A couple and their child have also reportedly been taken to hospital following a Channel crossing attempt

The Guardian - UK

Two women die trying to cross Channel from France

French authorities say about 100 people were attempting to reach the UK on a makeshift boat

Evening Standard

Channel tragedy: Two women dead after boat carrying 100 people capsizes

Around 60 people were rescued from the overnight incident

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Home Office probes Afghan migrant who won UK asylum then shared holiday snaps from Taliban-ruled homeland

The man, who goes by the name DG Usama, arrived in the UK in April 2022 on a dinghy across the Channel

Evening Standard

More than 1,000 small boat migrants arrive in UK despite French deal

The numbers crossing the English Channel have dwarfed the handful of migrants being sent the other way.

We Got This Covered

‘It doesn’t matter if you call out the military’: Trump tells UK PM to use force against Channel migrants as minister says ‘absolutely not’

Trump should see this as an opportunity to learn.

The Independent UK

Former navy chief slams Trump’s call for UK to use military to stop small boats as ‘load of nonsense’

As a cabinet minister declares ‘navy can be called upon if needed’ to turn back Channel migrants, former sea lord leads outcry against Trump plan, saying ‘we haven’t got enough ships ... all we can do is stop people drowning’

Evening Standard

Hundreds attempt Channel crossing as second migrant deported in UK-France deal

An inflatable dinghy full of men, women and at least three children made its way out to sea from Gravelines beach at daybreak on Friday morning.

Evening Standard

Second migrant deported to France as more cross the Channel at daybreak

An Eritrean man who lost a High Court bid to halt his removal was on a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15am on Friday.

Radio France Internationale

UK deports Indian man to France under 'one in, one out' migrant scheme

The United Kingdom on Thursday returned the first migrant to France under the new joint "one in, one out" deal, both governments confirmed, as London bids to curb contentious cross-Channel small boat arrivals.

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.