Stop the Boats and secure our borders? It might be a start if Home Office civil servants could stop swanning about at home and go to work in the office more than one day a week.

In BBC Radio 4 series To Catch a Scorpion, journalist Sue Mitchell and volunteer aid worker Rob Lawrie go in search of one of Europe’s most notorious people smugglers, Iraqi Barzan Majeed.

The Aldabra giant tortoises – classed as vulnerable by conservation groups – were found in Ashclyst Forest near Exeter.

Human traffickers on the U.S.-Mexico border make thousands of dollars per migrant snuck into the country, and smugglers in one sector are estimated to make over a $1.5 billion per year.

Gangs are now offering to smuggle people in lorries from Santander on the north coast of Spain into Portsmouth for £14,000 per person via ferry before taking a Eurostar from northern France.

He has launched his own range of Budgy Smugglers after wearing the revealing swimwear on the UK version of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

Graham Palmer, 37, and Scott Jones, 38, were part of the ring which tried to smuggle cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy into the country in 2019.

Home Secretary Priti Patel praised the National Crime Agency last night after more than a dozen suspected people smugglers were arrested over the deaths of 27 migrants in the Channel.

Woman says migrant smugglers scammed families after being paid to ferry their loved ones after smuggling them over the U.S.-Mexico border after Texas van crash killed 11 and injured 20.

The command centre will see the British authorities collaborate with law enforcement in Calais to carry out increased air, land and sea surveillance across the English Channel.