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More than 400 people, including children with soft toys, arrived in the UK on small boats after crossing the Channel on Monday.

The Ministry of Defence said 442 people made the journey in 15 boats on Monday.

Extra paperwork, veterinary checks and expenses could mean thousands have to give up pastime

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

The NCA is working with its international network to find the suppliers of the boats to try to stem supply.

France has “upped its game” and is two thirds of the way to its target for busting the business model of the Channel migrant smuggling gangs, the National Crime Agency has said after a wave of arrests in London and elsewhere in Europe.

Police in five European countries have arrested 39 people in a major cross-border operation targeting an Iraqi-Kurdish gang which smuggled migrants across the Channel to Britain, the EU's law enforcement agency Europol said on Wednesday.

Operation Punjum, led by the National Crime Agency in the UK, was carried out alongside Operation Thoren in Europe.

‘Slick’ operation saw boats purchased in Turkey, stored in Germany then transported to the French coast in small numbers to evade authorities