Government panic over missing boat migrants
As the total number of boat migrants passed 10,500 this year - 2,000 more than the 8,417 who arrived in the whole of 2020. But hundreds who arrived in the UK have gone missing.
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Home Office dockside migrant reception centre grows
Previously a simple brick building at the end of a jetty in Dover, the complex now includes an enormous marquee and at least ten cabins to handle the hundreds of migrants picked up every day.
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Blackburn man convicted over £19million cocaine smuggling plot
Mark Tucker, 53, was convicted at Canterbury Crown Court on Tuesday following a five-day trial. Tucker was convicted alongside Christopher Bullows from St Helens after attempting to smuggle 243kg of cocaine into the UK on an empty passenger coach. The National Crime Agency investigated Bullows and Tucker after the coach was stopped at Dover Docks in September 2020. Bullows was driving the vehicle, and Tucker was his only passenger. A search by Border Force uncovered the cocaine hidden in a specially constructed wastewater tank. The drugs would have been worth around £19.4millio...
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Two men caught trying to smuggle £19m-worth of cocaine into UK in a hidden compartment in a coach
Two men caught trying to smuggle £19m-worth of cocaine into UK in a hidden compartment in a coach Christopher Bullows and Mark Tucker were arrested after the coach was stopped at Dover Docks Updated Christopher Bullows (top left) and Mark Tucker were caught with 243 kilos of cocaine Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Noti...
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Blackburn man convicted over £19million cocaine smuggling plot
Mark Tucker, 53, was convicted at Canterbury Crown Court on Tuesday following a five-day trial. Tucker was convicted alongside Christopher Bullows from St Helens after attempting to smuggle 243kg of cocaine into the UK on an empty passenger coach. The National Crime Agency investigated Bullows and Tucker after the coach was stopped at Dover Docks in September 2020. Bullows was driving the vehicle, and Tucker was his only passenger. A search by Border Force uncovered the cocaine hidden in a specially constructed wastewater tank. The drugs would have been worth around £19.4millio...
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