These heartbreaking pictures show more than 100 migrants, including children, who crossed the channel to try for a new life in the UK today.
Good weather and calm seas have prompted a surge in migrant crossings , with scores of people brought into Dover on Wednesday morning, packed aboard Border Force patrol vessels and sitting on lifeboats.
Some of the migrants were carrying young children too young or too tired to walk. After waiting to be brought ashore - some for about an hour - they were led up the gangway towards the Border Force processing centre.
Once ashore, they will be assessed for symptoms of coronavirus. Several empty dinghies with outboard motors attached were also seen being towed into the port.
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