Asylum seekers arrive on the south coast of England after being intercepted by rescue volunteers and UK Border Force vessels as they try to cross the English Channel from France in small inflatable boats. In a separate incident, at least 27 migrants died crossing from France to England when their boat sank off the port of Calais, French authorities said, the deadliest disaster since the sea route began to be widely used in 2018. More than 25,700 people have made the cross-Channel journey in small boats this year, three times the total for the whole of 2020, according to data compiled by Britain's PA news agency. IMAGES