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French soldiers accused of failing to help in English Channel migrant tragedy

French magistrates have filed preliminary charges against five maritime rescue personnel over the deaths of 27 people who drowned while trying to cross the English Channel in a flimsy dinghy in November 2021.

Radio France Internationale

France charges military personnel over migrant deaths in 2021 English Channel tragedy

French magistrates on Thursday filed preliminary charges against five French maritime rescue personnel in a probe of the deadly sinking of a flimsy migrant craft in the English Channel in 2021 that killed 27 people.

France 24

Football legend Graeme Souness will swim the English Channel to raise £1.1m for charity

Souness takes on challenge to raise awareness and funds to help people with painful and incurable "butterfly skin" condition.

Daily Record

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Graeme Souness tears up on live TV as he explains next move after sudden Sky Sports exit

The Liverpool legend has called time on his television career to swim the English channel at 70 years of age and struggled to hold back the tears as he explained why

Daily Mirror

'The barge to house migrants represents failure. The entire policy is sinking'

It symbolises the complete failure of the UK Conservative Government to halt small boat crossings across the English Channel despite Rishi Sunak insisting it's a priority

Daily Mirror

Dispute over Emiliano Sala’s transfer to Cardiff to be resolved in French courts

The 28-year-old Argentinian died in a plane crash in the English Channel in January 2019.

The Independent UK

Aurora Borealis: Northern lights visible across the UK during geomagnetic storm

The aurora is said to have been visible as far south as the English Channel due to the severity of the solar storm

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English Channel migrant crossings pass 5,000 in 2023

Numbers rising after bad weather stopped crossings for five days, raising questions over government ‘deterrent’ strategy

The Independent UK

Asylum-seekers crossing the English Channel so far this year now number more than 4,500

More than 500 people risked the voyage in two day this week

Wales Online

Rebellion on Illegal Migration Bill seen off for now after talks with Tory MPs

The controversial legislation designed to put a stop to migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats returns to the House of Commons later.

The Independent UK

Eager young Albanians risk everything for new future in UK

Thousands of young Albanians have crossed the English Channel in recent years to seek a new life in the U.K. Their dangerous journey in small boats or inflatable dinghies reflects Albania's anemic economy and a younger generation’s longing for fresh opportunities

The Independent UK

Family of man, 28, found dead in canal handed police names of those who 'could have harmed him'

Haydar Alzokra had been 'intercepted in the English Channel'

Manchester Evening News

Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron to ramp up border security in multi-million-pound deal

Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron celebrate a "new chapter" in UK-France relations as they sign an agreement that will see French border security heightened to prevent asylum seekers crossing the English Channel

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