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Champions League: Liverpool fans cross Channel on speedboat after flight cancelled

A group of supporters made their own plan to reach Paris for Saturday’s Champions League final

The Guardian - UK

Huge traffic jams at Dover as Jubilee Bank Holiday getaway kicks off

Britons heading away for half-term and the Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend were stuck in three hour-long queues to board Channel ferries on Friday.

Evening Standard

Afghans ‘largest group’ fleeing to the UK by crossing the Channel – figures

Out of 4,540 people detected arriving by small boats in the first three months of 2022, 24% were Afghan nationals according to the Home Office.

The Independent UK

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Channel crossings: Average arrivals per boat nearly doubles in 12 months

A Home Office report said there had been an average of 32 people per small boat in January to March 2022.

The Independent UK

Channel migrant crossings top 9,000 this year as record levels continue despite Rwanda deal

At least 2,700 migrants have made the journey since Priti Patel announced the agreement with Rwanda last month

The Independent UK

Channel crossings exceed 9,000 for the year

Last week, 685 people arrived over five days.

The Independent UK

Home Office detains all asylum seekers it plans to send to Rwanda

Department says previously announced option of serving arrivals to UK with notices while living in community has not been used

The Guardian - UK

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Newcastle charity chief to swim from Dover to Calais to raise money and awareness for refugees

Action Foundation chief executive, Duncan McAuley, will lead a relay team in swimming the English Channel to raise awareness 'of the difficulties refugees face'

Chronicle Live

Campaigners force Rwanda plans delay in temporary reprieve for migrants

The Government has been forced to delay its first deportation flights to Rwanda after campaigners lodged a legal campaign against the controversial…

The National (Scotland)

Priti Patel may have to approve Channel boat crossing prosecutions because of obscure 1800s law

Draft guidance for prosecutors says a secretary of state must ‘personally’ approve charges for intercepted migrants

The Independent UK

Patel ‘pushing ahead’ with Rwanda migrant plan as 900 cross Channel in four days

The Home Secretary discussed progress on the agreement in a meeting with Rwandan foreign minister Vincent Biruta on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

‘I thought the UK was a good country’: Sudan massacre refugee faces removal to Rwanda

Mohammed is among first asylum seekers to face removal under Home Office’s controversial scheme

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel backs Rwanda asylum plans as hundreds continue to cross Channel

PRITI Patel has insisted work is taking place “right now” to send migrants to Rwanda as hundreds of migrants continued to cross the Channel,…

The National (Scotland)

Patel backs Rwanda plan as more than 900 migrants cross Channel in four days

The Home Secretary said work was taking place ‘right now’ on plans to deport people to Rwanda.

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Evening Standard

Refugees minister ‘distances’ himself from Government’s Rwanda plan

Britain’s minister for refugees appeared to distance himself on Tuesday from the Government’s plan to send migrants crossing the Channel on small boats to Rwanda.

Wales Online

More than 600 migrants arrive in UK in four days after Channel crossings

More arrivals are expected later

The Independent UK

Channel crossings continue for a fourth consecutive day

More than 600 migrants have arrived in the UK since Saturday.

Evening Standard

‘Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan won’t stop us crossing’ — inside the migrant crisis escalating in the Channel

Critics deem it expensive and counter-productive — but is the Government’s new scheme even workable? Katie Strick reports

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Daily Mirror

Two friends who crashed in the English Channel 'not qualified to fly in cloud'

Friends Lee Rogers and Brian Statham took off from an airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon bound for Le Touquet in France, but tragically crashed into the English Channel amid "freak weather conditions" and died

The Independent UK

Self-declared ‘war tourist’ aims to sail £15 dinghy along Channel refugee route

Provocative Twitter personality says £15 Amazon dinghy has ‘more leg room than Ryanair’

Daily Mirror

Home Office minister admits he can't show if Rwanda scheme will curb Channel crossings

It comes after the British Red Cross and the Refugee Council warned of some asylum seekers in Britain going into hiding in fear of being sent to Rwanda.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine refugees who enter UK via Ireland may be sent to Rwanda, MPs told

Minister also refuses to say whether Ukrainians who cross Channel in small boats could be sent to Africa

The National (Scotland)

Tory minister fails to show evidence Rwanda scheme will cut Channel crossings

A HOME Office minister has failed to provide any evidence that the Government’s controversial Rwanda scheme would reduce the number of people…

The Independent UK

Home Office unable to show evidence Rwanda policy will cut Channel crossings

The minister for tackling illegal immigration described it as an ‘untested policy’.

The Guardian - UK

A wing and a prayer: is there hope for Britain’s loneliest bat?

Our rarest mammal lives on its own, with no known relatives this side of the Channel. Did the greater mouse-eared bat stray here from France? And is it time we invited over some company?

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