appeared to fall out of the sky before crash-landing in their small boat. No one was badly hurt when the 3.4 meter (11-foot) bottlenose dolphin jumped aboard the open-top boat Friday, said Dean ...

Downing Street has defended it plan to stop small boat crossings after more than 1,100 migrants travelled across the Channel in the first four days of March. Some 1,168 people have made the ...

The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the ...

Latest figures, published by the Home Office, showed 592 migrants arrived in the UK yesterday after crossing the Channel in 11 small boats. This was the highest number of arrivals on a single day ...

But do the UK and France now have a chance of consigning the small boats to history? Somewhat eclipsed by events this week in Washington, Yvette Cooper became the first British home secretary in ...

Migrant crisis: French government to do more to stop small boat crossings as Macron set to lift ban Asylum seeker hotels set to receive 45% of Britain's new reduced aid budget as Labour MPs fume ‘Stop ...

This change comes amid growing concerns about the number of small boats attempting the perilous journey across the Channel. There have over 2,000 crossings so far this year, continuing the trend ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas, currently chartered by LGBTQ+ vacation company Vacaya, carried out the rescue mission on Wednesday (26 February), after crew members spotted a small, ...

A Vietnamese migrant, known only as 'Witness Z', told how he was exploited by the gang after arriving in the UK by boat in November 2020. He initially travelled to Britain to pay off money he had ...