Home Secretary Sajid Javid has buckled to political pressure and will send more border force cutters to the English Channel, despite critics warning the boats will act as “magnets” to illegal aliens and increase the number of crossings.
The UK’s Home Secretary has declared the illegal crossings across the English Channel from France a “major incident” after a sharp rise in boat migrants, mainly Iranian citizens, landing on Kent’s shores.
Yet another boatload of illegal migrants has landed on the English coast, as the MP for Dover urges the authorities to “get a grip” of the situation.
Forty migrants were picked up in the English Channel in five separate incidents on Christmas day, believed to be the highest number of illegals and boats intercepted in one day. The first vessel was spotted at 2:40am local time after
Police are dealing with an ongoing incident on the Thames Estuary, relating to the discovery of illegal migrants on board a cargo ship.
An MP has said the surge in “brazen” migrant boats crossing from France is “unprecedented,” as thirteen more people were rescued this weekend after attempting to cross the English Channel in inflatable boats.
Eight more suspected illegal migrants have been picking up near the Kent coast, meaning almost 80 people have arrived during an “explosion” in sea crossing this month.
Two dinghies carrying 14 illegal migrants have been picked up by the coastguard near the Kent coast.
Two 15-year-old boys have been arrested at their homes in Ramsgate, Kent, on Thursday morning suspicion of preparing for terrorist acts related to the “extreme right”.
Three Turkish men have received short prison sentences for gang-raping a teen girl and dumping her on the street in Canterbury, England.
UK counter-terror police arrested a man arriving into the country from France onboard a coach at Folkstone, on the south Kentish coast, Tuesday morning. The 42-year-old male was detained around 0100 Tuesday morning as the coach from France arrived in
The co-leaders of street-marching group Britain First have been found guilty of racially aggravated harassment at a British court in a case originating over the trial of four Afghan males who gang-raped a lost 16-year-old girl above a takeaway shop in Ramsgate, Kent, in 2016.
A knife-wielding man tried to attack and rape a bikini-clad barista manning a coffee stand in Washington State, surveillance footage shows.
A group of parents who withdrew their children from school assemblies, claiming concern over “extremist” content, have been accused of trying to “drive mainstream Christian teaching” out of a Church of England (CoE) primary school.
An election integrity law firm put 12 Texas counties on notice “for holding more registered voters than adult residents” during the 2016 Election. If the jurisdictions do not respond to requests for more information and demonstrate that corrective measures in place, they could risk federal lawsuits from the organization.
Kent Police have arrested an 18-year-old man following the Parsons Green terror bombing in London yesterday. The suspect was found in the port area of Dover – a popular destination for Islamist fighters, people-traffickers and illegal migrants travelling to and from Calais, France.
An alleged would-be carjacker was so desperate to get access to the vehicle he allegedly attempted to steal that he let the SUV drag him along the road as he clung to the vehicle’s driver’s side door.
Illegal migrants made more than 56,000 attempts to breach Britain’s borders from French ports and terminals in 2016
The annual Biggin Hill Festival of Flight went ahead as planned Saturday despite the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight having to cancel their attendance. Kent Live reported earlier this week that the flight of historic second world war aircraft had
A jury in Canterbury Crown Court has been told a lost 16-year-old was “passed around like an entertainment device” by four Afghani-origin men after asking for directions at a kebab shop in Ramsgate, Kent.
Four men are standing trial at Canterbury Crown Court for the alleged gang-rape a lost 16-year-old after she went into a kebab shop to ask for directions. Tamin Rahani, 37, Shershah Muslimyar, 20, Rafiullah Hamidy, 24, and a teenager who
A woman has been shot and six arrested as counter-terror police raided addresses in London and Kent as part of an ongoing investigation into an ‘active plot’.
Hundreds of foreign drivers breaking the speed limit in Kent have not been fined, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed. Charlie Elphicke, Member of Parliament for Dover has slammed the failure to collect the fines as
An 18-year-old girl claims she was raped by a gang of young Syrian migrants at a care home in Britain. The victim was subjected to a five-hour ordeal at the home in Gillingham, Kent last weekend after her attackers were
The chaos in Calais looks only as if it is going to get worse rather than better. But should we be surprised? Imagine for a moment that you are one of the illegal migrants camped out in Calais looking to
Contents: Thousands of migrants in Calais France causing Eurotunnel crisis; Britain’s PM Cameron’s ‘swarm of migrants’ remarks causing outrage; Number of lone children migrants to Britain soaring
