STORY: One day in early July, more than 100 migrants set off from the French coast for the UK.Others didn’t manage to climb ...

Such an unusual intervention in the English Channel could be a sign that French police are changing their tactics.

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

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

France's northern coast has long been fortified against invasion, with Nazi bunkers in World War II and pre-French Revolution ...

BBC on French beach as police slash migrant 'taxi-boat' heading to UK. 2 days ago. Share Save. Andrew Harding. BBC correspondent. Reporting from Ecault beach, south of Boulogne. Share Save.

Across the English Channel, the U.K.'s white cliffs beckon. On fine days, men and women with children in their arms and ...

NEARLY four times as many small-boat migrants made it to Britain in one recent week than the French ­managed to stop, it ...

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 ...

To claim asylum in the UK, a person must be physically in the UK. There is no visa to travel to the UK to make an asylum ...

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