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The UK said Thursday it had detained the first migrants under a new "one-in, one-out" deal with France in which it can return people crossing the Channel on small boats.

The Government is prepared to ‘robustly defend’ its plan in court if migrants challenge being sent back to France.

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The fire has already swept through an area one and a half times the size of Paris

British border authorities have detained the first group of migrants under a pilot plan that will send some who cross the English Channel on small boats back to France

France is battling its largest wildfire in decades, which has already burned more than 60 square miles in the south and killed one person

The first migrants to cross the English Channel have been detained under a new 'one in, one out' deal. The detentions began on Wednesday, the initial day the pilot scheme became active, for people arriving in Dover. The agreement, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel…

A wildfire in southern France has burned an area the size of Paris, killing one, injuring many and prompting mass evacuations amid extreme heat and drought.

People detained after arriving in small boat expected to be returned within three weeks, says Home Office

‘When I say I will stop at nothing to secure our borders, I mean it’, the prime minister says

Multiple people are understood to have been detained under the new ‘one in, one out’ deal after crossing the English Channel