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Last year, none of the Border Force ships or vessels owned by the government were used to deal with small boat incidents, Home Office officials admitted.
A total of 124 migrants made the dangerous crossing across the choppy waters, the Home Office has confirmed.
As another 388 migrants arrived here illegally over the weekend, a Russian lorry driver was starting a prison sentence for helping foreign nationals leave Britain. Yes, you did read that correctly.
Home Office figures show more than 300 people made the journey at the weekend. This takes the provisional total for 2024 to 1,057. Figures are tracking higher than at the same time last year.
Nikolai Kuznetsov, 39, was found last August by UK Border Force officers at Dover docks to be carrying 22 migrants, all of North African origin, in his trailer, including the girl and her parents.