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Record time for 10,000 crossings
Coventry Telegraph
|April 30, 2025
The number of migrants who have arrived in the UK so far this year after crossing the English Channel has passed 10,000 in record time.
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Some 473 migrants arrived on Monday, bringing the cumulative total for 2025 to 10,358, according to provisional figures from the Home Office.
It is the earliest point in the calendar year the milestone has been reached.
This story is from the April 30, 2025 edition of Coventry Telegraph.
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