The French have banned all accompanied traffic from the United Kingdom after the British government confirmed a new, more contagious strain of the Chinese coronavirus in London and the south-east.
DOVER, England (AP) – One tunnelling from France, the other digging from Britain, the two men smashed with pummeling jackhammers through the last slivers of rock separating their nations.
Dover (United Kingdom) (AFP) — A quarter-century after the Channel Tunnel opened, the British miner who punched through to the French side and was a poster boy for the continental connection is now a Brexit supporter.
Contents: France to demolish ‘The Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais; Italy struggles with the ‘mini-Calais’ refugee camp in Ventimiglia
The area around the Eurotunnel entrance at Calais has been described as looking like “the apocalypse” by locals, having been first cleared of all vegetation and now flooded as part of a strategy to keep migrants away. Migrants have been targeting
A mass intrusion by hundreds of migrants forced Eurotunnel cross-Channel rail services to be suspended in both directions last night after they stormed the terminal and platforms in France. The human tide led the Channel Tunnel operator to halt services from Folkestone, Kent and Coquelles
A 17-year-old from Eritrea was seriously injured Friday after making an apparent bid to jump on a Eurotunnel shuttle from France to Britain, a firefighter said, adding that his life was not in danger. “For an unknown reason, an Eritrean
Over the weekend there was another violent, coordinated mass invasion of train tracks in Calais. The migrants brought travel to a standstill, making it ten miles down the tunnel where fights occurred. Once again, according to statements from the Police
A group of migrants overran a high-speed train in Calais on Tuesday and attempted to ride on the roof through the Eurotunnel into the U.K. welfare state.
The migrant crisis in Calais, on the French side of the Eurotunnel, has grown so severe that polls show a surprising degree of agreement between French and British citizens that British troops should be deployed on French soil to help secure the tunnel.
Dozens of migrants have broken into a secure Eurotunnel complex – by guessing the passcode to a gate in the fence and walking straight through. Their actions make a mockery of the millions of pounds being spent by the British
Abdul Rahman Haroun, a Sudanese refugee among the 3,000 uncomfortably camped on the northern coast of France, decided to forego the invitation and force his way into the United Kingdom. He made a most impressive effort, climbing over four fences, dodging four hundred security cameras, and running halfway through the undersea railway tunnel connecting France with Britain before tripping an alarm, dodging high-speed trains in the dark tunnel every step of the way.
Over 100 migrants made it into Britain after last night’s storming of the Channel Tunnel – an “unusually high number” – according to UK sources of the AFP news agency. As the tensions between Britain and France escalate over the
