Channel, Christmas and small boats

Small boat Channel crossings continue after migrant total reaches 150,000
So far this year, 36,204 migrants have arrived in the UK on small boats, provisional Home Office figures show. This is up 23% on this time last year, but down 21% on 2022.
Hundreds more migrants arrive in Britain with 1,300 small boat immigrants crossing Channel since Christmas Day
GB News can reveal that 1,300 illegal migrants have now crossed the English Channel since Christmas day, as hundreds more crossed today. It comes as the Home Office confirmed 305 arrived yesterday in five small boats.
More than 100 migrants rescued trying to cross English Channel on Christmas, officials say
At least 73 migrants have died trying to cross the English Channel to Britain this year, according to French authorities, making 2024 the deadliest year on record for the crossings.
More than 150,000 migrants have crossed Channel to UK in small boats since 2018
On Christmas Day, more than 450 migrants arrived in the UK on 11 small boats, and a further 400 people made the journey on Boxing Day.
Over a hundred migrants in distress rescued trying to cross English Channel
Over the course of Christmas Day, 12 rescue operations were staged along the coast of northern France, including of a boat experiencing engine trouble.
150,000 migrants have crossed the English channel in just seven years, records show
Since current records began on January 1 2018, 150,243 people have made the journey, according to PA news agency analysis of Government figures.
Hundreds of people crossed Channel in small boats on Christmas Day - as latest figure released
More than 450 people crossed the English Channel in 11 small boats on Christmas Day, according to official Home Office figures released on Boxing Day
Christmas Day migrants - more than 450 people crossed Channel on 11 boats
A total of 451 people crossed the English Channel in 11 small boats on Christmas Day, according to the latest official figures. The Home Office says crossings resumed after an 11-day lull - the last recorded arrival was on 14 December involving 160 people on three boats.
Germany to criminalise the storage of small boats used for Channel migrant crossings
Berlin will "clarify" its laws to allow police to snare criminals using safehouses in the country, making it a criminal offence to "facilitate the smuggling" of asylum seekers.
More than 400 migrants cross Channel on Boxing Day
More than 400 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Boxing Day. A total of 407 people on 11 boats made the journey to the UK from France on Thursday. On Christmas Day there were 451 arrivals,
More than 450 Channel migrants reached UK on Christmas Day
More than 450 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Christmas Day, Home Office figures have shown.
Asylum seeker boat pilot loses appeal over deadly sinking in English Channel
Ibrahima Bah was found guilty of killing four migrants in ‘unseaworthy’ boat he steered across English Channel ...
Brave child died after crossing Channel in dinghy so NHS could save him from rare disorder
Real Britain met a little boy called Wissam Saleh who desperately needed to see a doctor in England, so his family risked a ...
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Labour savaged as English Channel 'crossings up 64% since Keir Starmer took office'
Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, has launched a scathing critique of Labour's handling of migration, blaming Sir Keir Starmer’s government for an alleged 64% surge in Channel crossings ...