Several groups of people had attempted to board an already-loaded inflatable 'small boat', according to Pas-de-Calais prefect Jacques Billant. The jostling and 'panicked movement' that followed ...

The Maritime Prefect confirmed that the French coastguard patrol boat Jacques Oudart Fourmentin (JOF) located the boat in the area off the old Walde lighthouse near Calais on Friday before it ...

The French coastguard rescued scores of migrants from a small boat off the Calais coast suffering from engine failure, as another 183 people reached the UK by crossing the English Channel.

Roughly 60 people were on board the vessel around 4am as it set off from the beach of Sangatte, just west of Calais, in northern France. But the boat was leaking, filling with water and sending 30 ...

The reasons behind a weekend uptick in the number of migrants arriving in the UK on small boats "are not necessarily ...

A coroner has recorded conclusions of unlawful killing at the inquests of three migrants who died when their small boat sank attempting to cross the English Channel.

The French coastguard was called to help 99 people overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday after reports of multiple migrant boats leaving off the coast of Pas-de-Calais. Some 58 people on board one ...

Two rigid inflatable boats were launched by the JOF to get the people onboard to safety ... the boat and then drops them off at the dock in Calais where they are taken care of by the land rescue ...

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