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According to report, pressure is being brought to bear on Eurotunnel Channel Tunnel to ensure it rapidly installs the new fencing Britain has agreed to pay for.

BEARDSLEY: French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said today that he was sending police reinforcements to Calais.

Mr Sutherland urged the UK to join the common European approach to the migrant issue, warning: “Anybody who thinks that by erecting borders or fences in some way a particular state can be protected from alleged “floods” – which are anything but floods...

A Sudanese man died on Wednesday as migrants desperate to enter Britain from France stormed the Channel Tunnel entrance and British ministers and security chiefs held an emergency meeting to try to tackle the growing crisis.

Drivers can be fined if their trucks are caught carrying illegal migrants, but according to BBC many don’t challenge the migrants because they fear violence.

Local police and tunnel security said hundreds of migrants had scaled fences around the Coquelles terminal in northern France and attempted to smuggle themselves on board vehicles.

“They both expressed concern about the immediate security challenges and reiterated their commitment to continue working closely together to tackle the problems posed by illegal migration”, a Downing Street spokesperson said.

Hammond made the announcement after chairing a 90-minute meeting of the government’s emergency Cobra committee in Whitehall.

Britain’s government promised new measures on Monday to crack down on illegal immigrants by making landlords evict them, as the Calais migrants crisis continued to dominate the headlines.

Numerous migrants originate from Syria and Iraq, where people say they are trying to escape the four-year civil war, starvation and human rights abuses. “The UK government is being very careful to ensure they don’t come to Britain and then the country responsible...

Conservative MP for Folkestone, Damian Collins, said: “This investment is very welcome, it doesn’t address the whole problem”.

The body of a suspected migrant has been found on the roof of a Eurotunnel train on the British side of the Channel Tunnel.

The Channel Tunnel reopened on Tuesday afternoon following a three-hour shutdown.

Some of the thousands of illegal immigrants camped in Calais and desperately trying to cross the Channel to reach Britain took advantage of the chaos to climb onto immobilised vehicles, said an AFP reporter on the scene.

French authorities, though, claim the migrant crisis is not their responsibility.