Migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in the first arrivals for July amid sunny and warm weather.
Pictures showed people in life jackets disembarking from a Border Security Command boat on Wednesday morning at Dover in Kent, where the Met Office forecast put the temperature at 23C with a gentle breeze.
Children appeared to be among those being met by officials at the port.
The crossings are the first for July, with 63 arrivals last recorded on June 30, according to the latest Home Office figures.
Some 11,884 migrants have made the journey across the English Channel this year as of Tuesday.
This is 44% below arrivals at the same point last year (21,117), and 12% below 2024 (13,574).
It comes as the number of migrants who arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in the first half of the year fell sharply compared with the same period in 2025.
Some 11,884 migrants arrived in the six months from the start of January to the end of June, according to Home Office data.
This is 41% lower than the total that had reached the UK by that point last year, which was 19,982.
It is also down 12% on the 13,489 who arrived in the first six months of 2024.
The steep drop is likely to reflect a number of factors including the weather, the supply of small boat parts, Government policy and the flow of migrants into Europe from elsewhere in the world.
