Channel migrants: More boats follow busiest day on record

(BBC) “Multiple” migrant boats have been picked up by Border Force in the English Channel, the coastguard said.

One vessel landed on a beach near to a nuclear power plant in Dungeness, Kent, police have confirmed.

French authorities said they rescued 58 people from three boats, one of which had 30 migrants on board, including six children and two people with physical difficulties.

A record 202 people in 20 vessels reached the UK on Thursday.

The Home Office has been contacted for comment.

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