A migrant has died after trying to cross the English Channel in a small boat on Friday evening, the French coastguard has said. A further 69 were rescued after the boat sank off the coast of Calais.

The Channel Lightvessel was placed to mark out new shipping lands, following the 1978 Amoco Cadioz oil spil A ship that acted as a lighthouse in the English Channel to mark out shipping lanes ...

Shadow Armed Forces Minister, Mark Francois, said: "The English Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world, so the suggestion a Russian 'shadow fleet' vessel may have been dropping devices ...

More than 25,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far ... The Channel is one of the most dangerous and busiest shipping lanes in the world. Many migrants come from some ...