The Latest Breaking News from the Channel Tunnel

Lilly Subbotin finds stormy skies, strong cocktails and surprisingly good pizza in Folkestone, the Channel Tunnel’s forgotten neighbour – and wonders if it’s time we all took a second look

Gemini says it wants to operate trains connecting London with Paris and Brussels

Many barriers – logistical and commercial – must be overcome before trains run Germany and Italy

Four days before the Paris Paralympics begin, the torch was lit on Saturday next to the English hospital where the idea for the competition was born. The flame arrives in France on Sunday via the Channel tunnel.

Four days before the start of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, the Paralympic flame was lit on Saturday near a hospital in the English village of Stoke Mandeville, where the idea for the competion was conceived. A group of British athletes will embark on the underwater journey through the Channel…

How student protests in support of Palestinians at Paris's political science institute are different from those in the US, a look at France's growing disaffection with Europe, and the long birth of the Channel Tunnel linking France to Britain – 30 years old this week.

This Monday marks 30 years since France and the United Kingdom officially opened the Channel Tunnel. It was the culmination of two centuries of dreaming about linking the two neighbours by land.

A strike by workers operating the Channel tunnel blocked train travel Thursday between Britain and France, leaving thousands of pre-Christmas travellers as well as freight traffic stranded.

When the Channel Tunnel first opened there were visions of seamless pan-European travel from the UK. Now the Disneyland Paris route has been axed and the Amsterdam route delayed, what went wrong?

Gavin Charters was jailed for trying to get two migrants through the Channel Tunnel in the boot of his car