Good Morning Europe Calais carries out drills to prepare for Brexit disruption Calais is prepared for whatever logistical shocks Brexit throws at the port, say officials. 26/09/2019
Belgium A flipper and a plastic bottle float: an Iraqi man's deadly asylum bid 'We don’t know where he started. We don’t know what his intentions were. We don’t know where he drowned.' 28/08/2019
United Kingdom UK Border Force find 60 guns in car arriving in Dover from Calais Britain's National Crime Agency said the find is believed to be "the largest seizure of lethal purpose weapons at a UK port." 04/08/2019
France France: Imam jailed for helping migrants cross the English Channel An Iranian imam has been sentenced to two years in jail for having facilitated the illegal crossing of migrants across the English Channel. 04/06/2019
United Kingdom 34 migrants intercepted in English Channel by UK Border Force Thirty-four migrants were intercepted in the English Channel by the UK Border Force and brought into the Port of Dover early Monday morning. 18/02/2019
brussels bureau Meet the woman Calais migrants call ‘mum’ While her neighbours have built a wall so they don’t have to look at the migrants in Calais, Brigitte Lips welcomes them into her home. 25/01/2019
United Kingdom UK pays Eurotunnel €38 million over no-deal Brexit ferry plan The British government has paid £33 million (€38 million) to Eurotunnel, which runs the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France, after the company took legal action over the process to award ferry contracts to cope with a no-deal Brexit. 10/01/2019
world news The Brexit 'roller coaster' - a British trucker's journey With a post-Brexit deal remaining elusive, there are fears that trucks could get stuck in queues in Dover and Calais. 25/09/2018
United Kingdom Macron says he will not allow Britain access to the single market post The British prime minister greeted the French president at Britain's army officer training academy ahead of talks on defence cooperation. 18/01/2018
world news France 'to demand UK pay more' for border controls post-Brexit President Emmanuel Macron reportedly set to ask Prime Minister Theresa May to contribute hundreds of millions of euros to reinforce France's border check points at ports facing Britain after Brexit. 28/12/2017
France Dover-bound ferry runs aground in Calais due to bad weather Dover-bound ferry ran aground in Calais on Sunday but no injuries were reported, said a P&0 spokesman 10/12/2017
France No solution to Calais' migrant problem one year after "jungle" demolition Migrants continuing to gather in Calais and Dunkirk sleeping rough due to lack of facilities. 23/10/2017
France One year on and refugees return to Calais A year after the dismantling of the Calais jungle and the dispersal of 10,000 migrants across France, between 500 and 1,000 have returned. For 20 19/10/2017
France French MEPs shower while clothed to demonstrate plight of Calais migrants Green politicians send message to French government from the bathroom. 18/10/2017
brussels bureau Special report: Desperate plight of Calais migrants Nine months after Calais’ so-called ‘Jungle’ camp was razed to the ground, migrants have returned – and are even more desperate to get across the Channel to… 28/07/2017
brussels bureau Exclusive: French police accused of abusing Calais migrants They have ended up in Calais in search of a better life, only to have their dreams shattered. 28/07/2017
France From Calais with Love: French woman faces 10 years in jail after helping migrant flee to Britain She once supported France’s far-right anti immigrant National Front party. That was before Beatrice Huret met and fell madly in love with Mokhtar 26/06/2017
France Van driver killed after migrants block Calais road with tree trunks Van driver killed after migrants block Calais road with huge tree trunks 20/06/2017
world news "Calais mon amour": how a National Front supporter fell in love with a migrant The improbable story of how a French National Front supporter fell in love with an immigrant 08/05/2017
United Kingdom Brexit 1.0: Britain’s 450,000-year separation from Europe revealed Brexit, it would appear, is not a new phenomenon. Scientists reveal how Britain first separated from Europe 450,000 years ago. 05/04/2017
France Tearful goodbyes as last migrants leave Calais 'jungle' Families, women, and unaccompanied female minors were among the last few hundred residents to leave the migrant camp. 03/11/2016
France French authorities remove minors from shipping containers in Calais French authorities have begun to move about 1,500 unaccompanied underage migrants from the site of the demolished Calais refugee camp. 02/11/2016
France Children still stranded after Calais camp bulldozed Up to 200 children spent the night at a makeshift school on the edge of the Calais ‘jungle’ after spending the previous night sleeping rough. 28/10/2016
France Calais' children forced to sleep rough for second night Dozens of unaccompanied children are said to have faced a second successive night without shelter around the ruins of the so called ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais. 28/10/2016
France Children 'still in the Jungle' though France declared camp cleared Hundreds of migrants including unaccompanied children are still said to be in the camp in Calais known as ‘the Jungle’, a day after French officials declared that it had been… 27/10/2016
France Calais 'Jungle' camp clearance finished, prefect says French authorities have finished clearing the shanty town known as the “Jungle” outside Calais, saying were confident of dispersing the last of its inhabitants around… 26/10/2016
