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More than 30,000 people have been detected crossing the English Channel to the UK so far this year, Government figures show.

Some 667 people were detected on Wednesday, taking the provisional total for 2022 to 30,515.

This is higher than the figure for the whole of 2021, when 28,561 crossings were recorded.

Further crossings have taken place on Thursday, with children and a heavily pregnant women among the likely arrivals.

Special tents have been erected at Dover to keep the migrants covered while they are processed as the new arrivals appear to be overflowing from existing facilities.

There have been 5,475 crossings detected so far this month, including 1,160 on September 4.

This was just below the 1,295 on August 22, which is the highest daily total on record.

It is more than five months since the then home secretary, Priti Patel, announced plans to send migrants to Rwanda to try to deter people from crossing the Channel.

Since then, 25,247 people have arrived in the UK after making the journey.

On April 14, Ms Patel signed what she described as a “world-first” agreement with Rwanda, under which the East African country would receive migrants deemed by the UK to have arrived “illegally”, and were therefore inadmissible under new immigration rules.

However the first deportation flight, due to take off on June 14, was grounded amid legal challenges.

Several asylum seekers, the Public and Commercial Services Union and charities Care4Calais, Detention Action and Asylum Aid, are embroiled in court cases with the Home Office as they challenge the legality of the policy.

The number of people reaching the UK in small boats from France after navigating busy shipping lanes has increased steadily in recent years.

Some 299 were detected in 2018, followed by 1,843 in 2019 and 8,466 in 2020, official figures show.

Despite the growing numbers, the small boat arrivals are a fraction of the number of people going to mainland Europe.

Data from the UN’s refugee agency shows at least 120,441 people arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean by land and sea last year.

The MoD said its data is taken from “live operational systems” and is subject to change, “including reduction”.

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LONDON (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of British railway workers nationwide will go on strike on Oct. 8 in an ongoing dispute over pay and working conditions, the trade union representing them said on Thursday. Britain's rail network suffered major disruption on several days in June, July and August when rail workers walked out in the country's biggest railway strikes in three decades. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said 40,000 members from Network Rail and 15 train operating companies would take part in the fresh round of industrial action next month.

The voluntary real living wage has been raised earlier than usual to provide more financial support to hundreds of thousands of workers during the cost of living crisis. The Living Wage Foundation, which sets the hourly rates that employers can opt in to, said that they would go up by £1 to £10.90 across the UK and by 90p to £11.95 in London. The new rates, it also explained, were now worth £2,700 more per year to full-time workers in the UK than those on the national minimum wage and almost £5,000 more in London.

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A commander of a pro-government paramilitary force has been killed at the protests in Tehran since the death of Mahsa Amini. The man headed a local branch of Basij, a paramilitary wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for cracking down on dissent, and was stabbed to death in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Wednesday. Another member of Basij, Abdolhossein Mojaddami, was shot dead by "rioters and gangs", according to local news agencies.

Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer and one of the country's largest private sector employers, is facing union calls to increase store workers' pay after several rivals raised hourly rates for a second time this year. Sainsbury's, the country's second largest supermarket group, Marks & Spencer and German-owned discounter Lidl GB have all announced increases this month, paying hourly rates ahead of the market leader. Tesco, which has a UK workforce of around 300,000, gave store and fulfilment centre workers a 5.8% rise in April, which took effect in July.

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French police have busted a major people-smuggling ring that has been sending migrants to the United Kingdom in dinghies, with more than a dozen boats and 700 life jackets seized in a raid.

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Portugal's flag carrier TAP told customers on Thursday that hackers had stolen some of their personal data and published it on the dark web, although the state-owed airline said all payment details appeared to be safe. "The release of the personal data via open sources could increase the risk of their illegal use, namely aimed at obtaining other data that could compromise the digital systems in fraudulent attempts such as phishing," TAP said. The airline also said it had taken immediate containment measures to keep its systems working and to protect other data.

Drinkers will save 7p on the price of a pint and 38p on a bottle of wine under an alcohol duty freeze as pubs brace for a tough winter in the cost of living crisis.

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LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England policymaker Jonathan Haskel said the UK central bank was in a difficult position as the government's expansionary fiscal policy appeared to place it at odds with the BoE's efforts to cool inflation. "We are in a difficult, uncomfortable position, frankly, because I don't like being in a situation where you have one institution - namely the independent central bank - at least being portrayed as set against another institution, the elected government," he said on Thursday. "Having a fiscal expansion in the context of tight supply is, I'm afraid, very difficult," he added, during a panel discussion hosted by London's North Western Reform Synagogue.