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A man who smuggled £11,000 worth of cocaine into the Isle of Man on the ferry has been jailed for five years and eight months.

Gangs charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid crossing Channel on small boats

Turkish national accused of supplying engines and boats to cross-Channel smugglers in Belgium and northern France

Peering over her glasses, the French judge glanced sternly across the cavernous underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage.

An unconfirmed number of people have died, including a child who was "trampled to death", following two small boat incidents off France.

The joint operation between UK and Bulgarian authorities resulted in 33 interceptions - and the seizure of 125 dangerous inflatable boats, 128 engines, more than 700 pumps, and 300 rubber rings.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested Christian Ogbuji at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos as he attempted to smuggle drugs into the country, having come from Uganda via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

HMS Trent, a British warship, seized over £40 million worth of cocaine from drug traffickers in the Caribbean, according to the Royal Navy.