Port of Calais

After the last train from Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington at 10.35pm on Thursday, the next service will not run until Wednesday 4 April. The busiest station in the west of England is closing for five days over Easter because of engineering work to upgrade signalling and improve reliability.

After reaching the southern tips of Europe, many migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia pressed on to the northern French port of Calais. For them, this was the final staging post en route to their chosen destination, the United Kingdom. It was no El Dorado. The reality of life in the Jungle, as the ...

A young migrant, probably of Afghan nationality, was stabbed to death in the French Channel port of Calais on Saturday. Police found the 25-year-old was dead on a street near the town's hospital and the A16 motorway after being called to the scene. Charities distribute meals and clothes in the area but ...

Fears of long lines of trucks waiting to enter the port of Calais following Brexit are worrying European countries. (Photo: Shutterstock). AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to LinkedIn LinkedInShare to Facebook FacebookShare to Twitter TwitterShare to Email EmailShare to Digg DiggShare to StumbleUpon ...

In a private meeting at the European Parliament, the boss of the Port of Calais warned the facility could go back to the chaos of July 2015, which saw truckers ... Mr Puissesseau also said that the Port of Calais' three-year, £625m expansion plan had been calculated before the advent of Brexit, with this event ...

The manager of the port of Calais and the region's president were not doom-mongering for their own amusement when they privately warned MEPs about the oncoming dangers. Calais's boss, Jean-Marc Puissesseau, is entirely correct that compulsory tariff checks (as a result of leaving the customs union) ...

Jean-Marc Puissesseau, the head of the port of Calais said if the Brexit deal results in a hard border that involves mandatory customs and sanitary checks at the ferry terminal then there will be traffic chaos on all roads leading to the town. At a private meeting in the Brussels Puissesseau said UK Prime ...

The boss of the port of Calais has said there could be tailbacks up to 30 miles in all directions and potential food shortages in Britain if a Brexit deal involves mandatory customs and sanitary checks at the French ferry terminal. Jean-Marc Puissesseau made an impassioned plea to Theresa May and Michel ...

... pic.twitter.com/QjnWU3Qncb. — Elias De Keyser (@EliasDeKeyser) February 25, 2018. Many of Belgium's undocumented migrants are asylum seekers whose requests have been denied, or former Calais Jungle residents who try to enter the United Kingdom through either the Port of Calais or the ...