Watch video of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel in a rare and unusual intervention, which police have ...

The BBC's Andrew Harding saw French gendarmes using knives to slash an inflatable small boat, packed with men, women and ...

Early one morning this week, a dinghy motored along a vast beach in northern France, stopping every few hundred metres to ...

French police usually follow strict rules that bar them from going into the sea in case they put lives at risk.

French police have punctured Channel migrants’ boats at sea for the first time in a change of tactics backed by Yvette Cooper ...

The BBC broadcast footage of officers damaging the vessel, full of people, as it was about to set off, with PM Keir Starmer’s ...

French police have waded into shallow waters off a beach south of Boulogne and used knives to slash an inflatable small boat – packed with men, women and children – that was wallowing, dangerously, in ...

French police have used new tactics to stop small boats setting off to cross the Channel, slashing a boat while it was in ...

FRENCH cops have finally been captured tackling small boats in the water… while a BBC camera crew were conveniently on hand ...

Asylum seekers in the UK are normally barred from work while their claim is being processed, though permission can be applied ...