French president promises to shut down 'unacceptable' Calais camp

French president Francois Hollande has said he hopes authorities can relocate as many as 9,000 migrants massed in a squalid camp in Calais to reception centres across the country in the coming weeks.

Mr Hollande, visiting one of France's 164 such reception centres in the city of Tours today, reiterated his pledge to shut the Calais camp, known as "the jungle".