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Screengrabs from video courtesy of Alex Ferguson showing French fishing vessels staging a protest outside the harbour at St Helier, Jersey THE UK has sent in Royal Navy vessels to patrol waters around Jersey as French boats gathered to protest over post-Brexit fishing rules. HMS Severn and HMS Tamar have been deployed by the UK Government to “monitor the situation” at the Channel Island. French maritime minister Annick Girardin had warned on Tuesday that the country is ready to take “retaliatory measures”, accusing Jersey of dragging its feet over issuing new licences to French ...

Updated: 6 May 2021, 11:17 Invalid Date, FRENCH fishermen have vowed a new "Battle of Trafalgar" as a man in a soldier's uniform was seen firing a musket towards the blockade around Jersey. The row over fishing rights between Britain and France has ramped up as two Royal Navy gunboats were deployed and a French navy vessel speeds towards the Channel Islands. 9 9 9 The musket fired in a puff of smoke in a bizarre stunt amid the row Claude La Vaullée, a Norman skipper who has fished off Jersey for 40 years, told Ouest France that he and other fishermen had equipped their vessels to "re-stag...

Tensions rise off Jersey as Royal Navy ships track French post-Brexit fishing protest Nicholas Cecil Tensions escalated early Thursday off Jersey as a flotilla of around French 70 boats gathered off Saint Helier harbour in a clash over fishing rights. Some set off flares and there was talk over maritime radio of a blockade. Two Royal Navy ships, HMS Tamar which is equipped with machine guns and a helicopter landing pad, and HMS Severn, were keeping a distance, tracking the protest and watching from just over a mile. It comes after French maritime minister Annick Girardin warne...

Au revoir! Two Royal Navy ships send French fishermen scurrying back home from Jersey after one of them RAMS a British boat in fishing row - as gunboats prepare to return to port in the UK but remain 'on standby' Fishermen said they were ready to restage the Battle of Trafalgar as they descended on harbour this morning David Sellam, head of the Normandy sea authority, said: 'We're ready for war. We can bring Jersey to its knees'  But by 1.30pm navigation charts showed the armada had given in and was sailing back towards home waters Observer said French boats blockading the harbour had return...

Fishing might not seem the most obvious grounds for a fight, but that’s exactly what’s happening right now in the Channel. France and the UK are locked in a fierce dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights with Jersey at the heart of the row. In a marked escalation of tensions, Boris Johnson has ordered two Royal Navy vessels to patrol the waters around the island amid fears of a possible blockade. On Thursday morning, it emerged that the French...