Holidaymaker's urgent warning after migrant found in his trailer at Calais

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A retired ambulance service worker has issued an urgent warning to travellers heading to Europe in the New Year - after he was fined over a migrant stowaway he didn't know was in his camping trailer.

Great-grandfather Peter Hughes, 75, from Droylsden, Tameside, was initially told by the Home Office he was being fined a staggering £6,000.

A migrant was found stowed inside his small camping trailer at the Port of Calais in France without his knowledge in a failed bid to illegally enter the UK.

Now - after substantial political and media pressure, and an appeal - Peter's fine has been quashed to £150, a sum he's begrudgingly paid despite he and his wife, Anne, knowing nothing about the migrant man, from Sudan.

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