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Migrants continue crossing the English Channel amid good weather

Pictures show people wearing life jackets getting off a Border Force boat in Dover on Tuesday.

(Gareth Fuller/PA)

Migrants continued to cross the English Channel after a spell of good weather.

Pictures show people wearing life jackets getting off a Border Force boat in Dover, Kent, on Tuesday.

Other photos show men and women being driven away on a bus from a compound.

Thousands of people have crossed the Channel this year
Thousands of people have crossed the Channel this year (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Some 114 people crossed in two boats on Monday, according to latest Home Office figures, taking the provisional total for the year so far to 17,284.

The number of arrivals for 2024 to date is 15% higher than this time last year (15,071) but 3% down on the same period in 2022 (17,785), according to PA news agency analysis of Government data.