Ned Davies, Joshua Cheetham & Matt Murphy BBC Verify BBC A Russian warship disguised itself using a fake ID signal while travelling through the English Channel with two sanctioned oil tankers, a BBC Verify investigation has found. The Boikiy – a corvette armed with guided missiles – broadcast the fake ID code as it passed...
Lindsey Walke raises nearly £3000 for Alzheimer’s Society by crossing the channel on Saturday. Read full article at source...
A long-distance swimmer is on the brink of attempting to achieve a lifelong dream by swimming the English Channel. On Monday morning Lindsey Walke, 49, from Plymouth, said she was waiting for the call from her boat pilot to begin the challenge, a feat that could take up to 13 hours. Ms Walke, a lifelong...
More than 1,100 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel on Saturday, the highest number recorded on a single day so far in 2025. The latest Home Office figures showed 1,194 migrants arrived in 18 boats. It brings the annual total so far to 14,811, up 42% on this time last year...
Channel 5 will show four home England T20s per year for the next four years under a new deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), keeping the matches on free-to-air television. The two men’s and two women’s matches, previously shown on the BBC, will also be available on Channel 5’s streaming service 5....
Channel 5 will show 23 Fifa Club World Cup matches this summer after agreeing a UK sublicensing deal with global rights holder DAZN. The free-to-air broadcaster will show 15 group games, four last-16 ties, two quarter-finals, one semi-final and the final. The remaining 40 matches at the expanded 32-team tournament, which takes place in the...
The number of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel has reached a new record for the first four months of the year. Some 656 people arrived in 11 small boats on Saturday, taking the total number of people crossing in 2025 so far to 8,064, according to provisional Home Office figures,...