Record 40,000 migrants cross Channel

The unprecedented number includes 100 migrants taken ashore on Saturday, eyewitnesses and rescuers said.

More than 40,000 migrants have made the perilous journey across the Channel this year, the highest number since the Border Force began tracking arrivals in 2018.

It comes as the government slashed the number of migrants kept at its controversial Manston processing centre in Kent.Up to 4,000 were being held at the site at its peak, despite the detention point being designed for 1,600.UK's deal with France to curb Channel crossings reaches 'final stages' as Sunak meets Macron

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