Goodwill trip places councillors in cuffs

A TRIO of European councillors who sailed across the English Channel on a homemade raft to deliver a message of goodwill were arrested upon arrival in Britain.

The two Germans and one Frenchman braved choppy seas to make the nine-hour journey from Boulogne to Folkestone on Wednesday.

But the trio, who carried a goodwill message in a bottle from the mayor of the German town of Zweibrucken, had failed to obtain permission from the relevant authorities to cross the busy shipping lane.