- British rescue vessels and an HM Coastguard aircraft have been deployed to intercept a migrant dinghy that spent roughly 30 hours at sea after leaving Normandy.
- The Maritime and Coastguard Agency stated that the migrants picked up from the Channel will be safely transferred to UK Border Force.
- Small boat departures from as far west as Normandy are rare, with the journey being one of the longest attempted Channel crossings.
- The incident follows the arrival of another migrant boat at Folkestone on Monday, marking the first undetected landing on the UK coast in a year.
- Defence minister Luke Pollard insisted that UK borders are secure, adding that a Home Office investigation is under way into how the Folkestone boat avoided detection.
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