Fears are mounting that packed mega-dinghies of migrants could start to land all along Britain’s south coast after a boat completed a 70-mile Channel crossing to Portsmouth, aided by five French vessels and two helicopters.
An inflatable carrying 140 asylum seekers set off from the Baie de Seine in Normandy yesterday, up to 300 miles by road south-west of Calais, as people smugglers launched a new route to the UK.
Their arrival in Britain sparked chaos as protesters waded into the Solent to confront them, before around 500 then blocked roads near Eastney Beach in an attempt to stop buses taking the
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