Migrant boats cross the Channel as hundreds greet asylum seekers at barracks

A group of people, thought to be migrants, waiting on a Border Force rib to come ashore at Dover marina in Kent, after a small boat incident in the English Channel. Picture: PA

Dozens of migrants are believed to have reached the UK on Saturday aboard small boats as recent rough seas calmed.

Meanwhile, up to 200 people gathered outside a military barracks in Kent, England where asylum-seekers are being housed to greet their “new neighbours”.