The new arrivals came over in seven small boats, bringing the total number over the past three days to 1,772 and the grand total for this year so far up to 38,726.
The alarm was raised when a French-coded radio beacon was activated in the middle of the night in April last year about 40 miles off the coast of Land's End in Cornwall.
A French motorcycle racing icon took to the high seas in 1952 to cross the English Channel under the power of a modified Vespa - here's how it happened.
Two 17-year-old students are preparing to swim 66 kilometers in a school pool – the full English Channel distnace – to raise funds for rainforest protection.
The British destroyer shadowed the Russian warship through the English Channel as NATO assumed direct command of the UK naval response in a "historic first".
A ROYAL Navy destroyer has been deployed alongside NATO allies to tail a Russian warship in the Channel. Activated by NATO's Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM), HMS Duncan rushed to shadow Russian destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov. The…
A Royal Navy destroyer and helicopter were deployed on a 48 hour NATO operation monitoring a Russian warship in UK waters, marking a historic first for the alliance.