Boat
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Channel smuggling gangs resort to ‘mega-dinghies’ as crackdown limits small boat supply
What they leave behind in Gravelines is a scene of dejection and exhaustion. A limp toddler is carried past me…
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French becoming more effective in stopping small boat crossings, UK says
He said some had claimed bad weather was the biggest factor in a reduction of crossings this year. “But what…
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UK
Record 230 people cross English Channel in one small boat
Provisional Home Office figures for the number of people who have crossed the Channel to the UK this year so…
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UK
Powering the small boat crisis: The sportswear stores on northern French coast raking in fortune from selling lifejackets to the thousands of migrants headed for UK
Last week, the world watched on as some 60,000 asylum seekers, spurred on by social media posts, swam across the…
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UK
More than 150 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in Channel
More than 150 migrants have been rescued after the boat they were using to cross the Channel caught fire on…
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UK
Burnham pledges to be ‘relentless’ in curbing small boat crossings
The Home Office also said on Sunday that there had been nearly 300 arrests of smuggling gang members last year,…
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UK
French patrol boat heard firing shots during BBC interview in Channel, MP says
After the incident, Philp said: “It is extraordinary that the French navy fired live shells in defense of its waters…
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USA
My entire family went on a boat trip that they never returned from
“It’s something you don’t get over; you learn to live with it.” Sixty years ago, Peter Watts’ entire family was…
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Australia
‘Tragic’: Man dies after boat capsized by large wave at La Perouse
A man has died and another has been taken to hospital after a boat capsized following a heavy wave in…
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UK
Outrage as migrants ‘flee to UK on boat after killing man on beach’ | UK | News
The suspected killers are feared to have fled to England after allegedly stabbing a man to death on a beach…
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