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Record migrant numbers for first four months
Western Daily Press
|April 14, 2025
THE number of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel has set a record for the first four months of the year.
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There have been 8,064 arrivals so far in 2025, including 656 on Saturday, according to provisional Home Office figures. This is already higher than the 7,567 people who crossed the Channel over January, February, March and April in 2024 at the time, a record number for that period. It is also a jump on the 5,946 arrivals in the first four months of 2023, and the 6,691 in the same period in 2022.
This story is from the April 14, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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