The Latest Breaking News from the English Channel

Egyptian Reda Hamoud Abdurabou, 25, took charge of the small boat while trying to cross the English Channel in July 2022

Labour accused the Prime Minister of failing to get a grip on the migrant crisis in the English Channel.

Total crossings so far this year are 19% below the equivalent period in 2022.

As part of attempts to prevent people crossing the English Channel in small boats, the UK government has been briefing the press that it is considering sending arrivals to Ascension Island – a remote piece of land in the Atlantic Ocean inhabited by fewer than 900 people. This idea was…

The UK may leave a major international human rights agreement to help tackle small boats crossing the English Channel.

The plane suddenly turned over the English Channel around 30 minutes into the journey

Rishi Sunak’s pledge to ‘stop the boats’ has run into a series of difficulties in the English Channel, the courts and the House of Lords.

Sala died when the light aircraft he was travelling in from France crashed into the English Channel in January 2019.

A British court ruled Thursday that a government plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is unlawful, delivering a blow to the Conservative administration's pledge to stop migrants making risky journeys across the English Channel.