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Mobile phones of economic migrants and asylum seekers are being seized to catch individuals involved in “small boats” smuggling gangs operating Channel crossings. Border guards, police and crime ...

MIGRANTS can now have their phones and electronics seized at Dover under new laws. Those who arrive on small boats could now also be prosecuted for supplying items such as engines and putting other ...

2025 saw the second highest number of small boat crossings on record, according to the Home Office. The government has revealed 41,472 people arrived in the UK by coming across the English Channel in ...

Second highest annual number of irregular arrivals on record reached British shores in 2025 More than 41,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats last year, figures branded “shameful” by the Home ...

15:52, Wed, Dec 31, 2025 Updated: 16:03, Wed, Dec 31, 2025 Christmas presents will be returned at a faster rate than people who came to the UK illegally on small boats are being removed, the ...

Commercial tours are resuming at the Lahaina Harbor Small Boat Harbor. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources More than two years after the Lahaina fire, the state ...

Each December, glistening lights dance on the waterways, floating parades of boats big and small decked out for the holidays. The granddaddy of them all, Newport Beach’s famed boat parade, which has ...

France has agreed to start intercepting small boats in the Channel, following months of pressure from the UK. The change in policy comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wrote to President ...