A Home Office minister has refused to pledge that the number of Channel crossings will fall this year. Alex Norris, the ...

Starmer signs landmark deal with China to tackle small boats crisis - The agreement to share data is significant because 60 per cent of the engines used to power the small boats come from China ...

France has intercepted a people-smugglers’ small boat on the water for the first time as part of tougher tactics to combat ...

MORE than 200 migrants arrived in small boats yesterday during the third day in a row of Channel crossings. It comes despite ...

A woman has died attempting to cross the English Channel in a boat carrying migrants, according to Kent Police. The overloaded dinghy suffered what the authorities are describing as a "catastrophic ...

Blocking supplies of powerful Chinese-made engines is seen as crucial to making the people-smuggling business model less ...

French police will use large nets to stop small boats crossing the English Channel – despite warnings that such tactics could lead to deaths. France has been under mounting pressure from the UK to ...

A French boss of a second-hand boat firm was sentenced to prison Friday for selling dozens of vessels to desperate migrants who used them to cross the English Channel. Emmanuel Desreux, 45, was given ...