The boat, with 222 rooms ... and said use of the barge to house migrants was a "ministerial cruelty". Dorset Council said it had "serious reservations" about the suitability of Portland Port ...

French authorities said the migrant boat was first detected by a commercial ... be moved off the Bibby Stockholm barge moored off the Dorset coast because of the discovery of Legionella bacteria ...

Pictures show men and women wearing blankets and life jackets being brought ashore from a Border Force boat in Dover on Monday.

A migrant has died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the UK, the Government has said. More than 30 people were rescued after a boat got into difficulty in the Channel overnight ...