It's not clear how seriously the government considered this but as we know it eventually signed off on the Channel Tunnel project which opened in 1994... READ MORE›
Lately, the Channel Tunnel has beckoned intruders of a different sort migrants from Africa and the Middle East hoping to reach Britain... READ MORE›
Currently, the two countries are linked by an undersea rail tunnel known as the Channel Tunnel... READ MORE›
Britain will not become a safe haven for migrants in Calais David Cameron has warned after hundreds continued their attempts to reach the UK... READ MORE›
But the number of daily crossings from France to Britain makes the Channel Tunnel, and ferry ports, difficult to police... READ MORE›
British traffickers are involved in smuggling migrants into the UK from northern France a mayor has alleged... READ MORE›
French police officers on patrol at a Eurotunnel train depot near Calais Photo AFP Large numbers of migrants now know the system well... READ MORE›
A strike on 23 June lead to the the suspension of Channel Tunnel services and saw hundreds of migrants try to board UK-bound lorries amid the chaos... READ MORE›
French police have forced back a group of migrants who had cut through fencing at the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais... READ MORE›
It is about nine miles from the perimeter of the Channel Tunnel that connects France with Britain... READ MORE›
Calais crisis The seven claims made about the migrants... READ MORE›
France-uk border fully under control as eu pledges extra money to turn calais jungle into a humanitarian camp for 1 500 migrants in 2016... READ MORE›
The ministers said in their letter that many of the migrants trying to cross the Channel to Britain had passed through Italy Greece and other countries... READ MORE›
Last Friday, around 150 migrants caused delays and cancellations when they tried to storm loading bays inside the Channel Tunnel terminal on the French side... READ MORE›
The Calais ferry workers' dispute had fallen silent during round-table talks between the French government, Eurotunnel and a small local seamen's union and workers' cooperative... READ MORE›
Strikes at the port have led to huge traffic problems with a back-log of trucks trying to cross... READ MORE›
Last week similar strike action that lasted 36 hours caused chaos at Calais... READ MORE›
Nawaf and other migrants attempt to reach the channel tunnel to Britain from the migrant camp in Calais France... READ MORE›
A migrant has been found dead in the Channel Tunnel in an apparent attempt to get to the UK... READ MORE›
Over the past year, French police have systematically cleared other squatter camps in the Calais area and directed migrants towards the wasteland beside an industrial site... READ MORE›
The migrants had torn down a gate as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans... READ MORE›
That camp also strained cross-Channel relations as London saw it as luring migrants to Calais from where they tried to make their way to England... READ MORE›
A teenage refugee has been killed by a freight train near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in France while attempting to reach Britain... READ MORE›
All of these 'asylum seekers' are already in France, which is a safe country... READ MORE›
Drones deployed to keep migrants and refugees out of the Channel Tunnel... READ MORE›
On Tuesday he became what the authorities said was the first migrant to walk nearly the entire length of the Channel Tunnel... READ MORE›
France and Britain vowed Sunday that a cross-Channel migrant crisis was their top priority in a united front that belied simmering anger over an issue wh... READ MORE›
It has also had a significant practical effect Trucks leaving Britain have been forced to wait hours, and vacationers heading to France have faced significant delays... READ MORE›
Migrant death in channel tunnel highlights uk security crisis... READ MORE›
About 3,000 people from Africa, the Middle East and Asia are camped in Calais hoping to smuggle themselves into Britain, and the costly crisis has strained ties across the Channel... READ MORE›
A clash between about 200 migrants trying to get to Britain from the northern French port city of Calais left seven people injured on Saturday... READ MORE›
Refugee crisis Migrants break into Channel Tunnel, rail services disrupted... READ MORE›
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