Tom Edgington and Rob England BBC Verify BBC Good weather and the willingness of people smugglers to cram more people onto small boats have been highlighted by the government as factors driving the level of migrant Channel crossings. The Home Office has released figures showing that the number of “red days” – when conditions are...
The number of people who have crossed the English Channel in small boats in 2025 has exceeded 10,000, an increase of about 40% compared with the same period last year. A total of 247 people crossed on Sunday, taking the total to 9,885 migrants the Home Office has recorded arriving in the UK since the...
Pedestrian crossings in several areas of northern California have been hacked with fake greetings mocking the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Officials in Silicon Valley are investigating and have disabled the audio feature on the crossings which usually plays instructions to “walk” or “wait”. The surprise message were noticed over the weekend in...