Channel crossings: Migrants wrapped in blankets reach Dover

(BBC) Migrants, bundled in blankets and foil, have arrived in Dover after journeying across the Channel.

Temperatures at the Kent port hovered around 7C while a woman and a group of men were seen being helped ashore by Border Force officials.

The Home Office said 59 people on four boats crossed the Channel on Friday.

On Thursday two boats with 24 people made the crossing, with the French authorities stopping 147 people leaving French shores over the last two days.

Numbers of people making the dangerous crossing aboard small boats have rocketed this year.

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