BBCNEWS Dateline London June 4, 2024 10:37:00
Instead we get these ridiculous stunts. latika, 28,526 people made it to britain last year on this route, 45 people either went missing or died attempting to do so. so you can see statistically why people might carry on coming, although it is very dangerous water, one of the most crowded waterways in the world, actually the risk to life is proportionally relatively low. terrible what happened to that a5, but proportionally its quite a low figure. australia had exactly this problem of offshoring....
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