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Love Island star says they are homeless just weeks after stint on hit ITV show

Andrew's family lived in Guernsey in the English Channel, thousands of miles from his former home in the United Arab Emirates but he wanted to be closer to Tasha, who lives in London.

Irish Mirror

Number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats this year exceeds 20,000

Ministry of Defence says 14 small boats detected in the 24-hour period between 12 and 13 August

The Independent UK

Woman Becomes The First Person With Complete Spinal Cord Injury To Swim The English Channel

A woman becomes the first person with complete spinal cord injury to swim the English Channel – without a wetsuit.

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Channel migrants total passes 13,000 since Rwanda plan announced

It brings the total number of people who have crossed the English Channel so far this year to 18,284 with more arrivals reported on Monday

Wales Online

Number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel passes 18,000, data suggests

THE total number of people who have crossed the English Channel in search of asylum so far this year has passed 18,000, Ministry of Defence figures…

The National (Scotland)

Total number of people crossing English Channel in small boats passes 18,000

The new milestone was reached just days after the busiest day for Channel crossings in 2022 so far.

The Independent UK

Migrant crossings resume as report warns asylum seekers at risk of exploitation

Small boats crossings resumed in the English Channel on Thursday after none were reported on Tuesday or Wednesday.

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Grazier Brendan Cullen swaps outback lakes for open water with English Channel swim

Kars Station is 12 hours west of Sydney, 500 kilometres from the nearest beach and one of the unlikeliest places to train for a swim across the English Channel. But that did not deter Brendan Cullen, who completed the attempt over the weekend.

ABC News

Western countries are shipping refugees to poorer nations in exchange for cash

The U.K. government was due to begin its first deportation flight to remove asylum-seekers to the East African country of Rwanda on June 14, 2022, exactly two months after signing the U.K.-Rwanda agreement. The asylum-seekers were from several war-torn and politically unstable countries, including Syria, Sudan and Iran.

The Conversation

Vacationers Fear Delays In Crossing English Channel Due To French Staff Shortage

Following a weekend of huge delays, the port in southern England has returned to 'normal' but more delays are feared.

Zenger

France refuses to increase Eurostar services amid travel chaos

Travel chaos in France extended to Eurostar services between Paris and London on Sunday night as stranded passengers endured “a nightmare” and “bedlam2 because of cancelled and delayed trains.Videos produced by those caught up in Sunday night’s disruption showed thousands packed into the overflowing departure lounge at Gare du Nord,…

Evening Standard

Congestion eases at English Channel port of Dover

Officials at the English Channel port of Dover on Sunday said operations had returned to normal, after two days of lengthy delays blamed on post-Brexit border checks.

Radio France Internationale

UK Channel port blames French officials for summer getaway chaos

Operators at the English Channel port of Dover on Friday accused French border officials of "ruining the start to the summer getaway", blaming understaffing for hours-long queues.

Radio France Internationale

Report: UK clearly overwhelmed by surge in migrant crossings

An independent inspection has found that Britain’s response to the increase in migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats is poor and officials are clearly overwhelmed

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Report slams UK’s handling of migrant and asylum seeker arrivals

The UK has failed to adequately respond to a surge in arrivals via the English Channel, independent inspection finds.

The Independent UK

No interpreters, no photos, no fingerprints - Home Office failing to make proper checks on Channel arrivals

Photos and fingerprints are not being taken for all migrants and hundreds have disappeared from hotels

The Independent UK

39 suspects arrested over migrant smuggling on boats to UK

The suspected ringleader of a network that smuggled as many as 10,000 people on small boats across the English Channel to Britain has been arrested along with 38 others

Newcastle Herald

He's done it: Merewether's Craig Clarke conquers English Channel

Clarke tackled the swim he had dreamt about for 40 years

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Newcastle Herald

'I'm in the zone now': Clarke set to swim English Channel

Clarke, 57, says he is feeling strong as he prepares to tackle the 34-kilometre swim

Evening Standard

10 arrested by French police after deadly migrant boat sinking in Channel

French police are holding 10 people suspected to be involved in the November 2021 English Channel drowning, a judicial source claims

Radio France Internationale

French police hold 10 suspects over migrant deaths during Channel crossing

French police were on Thursday holding 10 people suspected of involvement in the November 2021 drowning of 27 migrants in the English Channel.

The Independent UK

Channel crossings continue as traffickers face life sentence under new law

A total of 153 migrants on four boats were intercepted by the UK authorities on Monday.

The Independent UK

444 people brought ashore after attempting to cross English Channel

This total in Kent marks the highest number of people since 562 were recorded on April 14 earlier this year.

The Independent UK

UK rescued 444 migrants from the English Channel crossing as Rwanda deportation flight cancelled

This was highest number since mid-April

Evening Standard

444 migrants attempt to cross English Channel in single day as Rwanda deportation flight cancelled

A total of 444 people were detected crossing the English Channel in small boats on Tuesday, the Government has revealed.

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