' 1,500 STORM '

One man has died after 1,500 migrants tried to storm their way into the Eurotunnel overnight - among 37,000 who have been stopped since January.

The Sudanese man, aged in his late 20s, was crushed by a truck and is believed to be the ninth migrant killed at the tunnel since the beginning of June.

On Monday night, about 2,000 migrants tried to break through the terminal's security fence – and it was reported that two people were hit by a train, although there were no reports of fatalities.

Calais: Eurotunnel Stormed
Sky News reporter Katie Spencer in Calais said: "People are feeling this has been one of the worst weeks they've had to deal with.

"The migrant population just keeps growing and growing and every night people seem to be trying to make this attempt to make it into Britain."

PM's Sympathy With Tourists
Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said none of the 1,500 who tried to break through the fences to the tunnel's platform on Tuesday night were successful, adding that the crisis affects freight services - not passenger services - and the migrants are not getting "anywhere near" the tunnel itself.

A spokesman for Groupe Eurotunnel, which runs the Channel Tunnel, said: "The continuous pressure exerted every night is above and beyond that which a concessionaire can reasonably handle and requires a constructive and appropriate response from both governments."

Prime Minister David Cameron has described the migrant crisis in Calais as "very concerning" - and stressed the Government will do "everything it can" to improve the situation.

Tracking The Smugglers
At a news conference in Singapore, Mr Cameron said he had "every sympathy" for holidaymakers who have had their travel plans disrupted as a result of delays and cancellations to services through the Channel Tunnel.

Although he described the ongoing disruption as "not satisfactory", he advised against "trying to point fingers of blame".

Home Secretary Theresa May will chair a meeting of the Cobra committee about the crisis later this morning.

Hauliers Fear Calais Deaths
Yesterday, she announced that Britain had agreed to spend an extra £7m on improving security at the Channel Tunnel railhead in Coquelles, following a "constructive meeting" with her French counterpart.

Mrs May said: "We are both clear that we need to ensure we are dealing with the terrible criminal gangs, the people smugglers, who are making a profit out of the human misery of many people."

According to the Home Office, 1.2 miles of fencing from the recent NATO summit in Newport will be used to secure each side of the platform at Coquelles and will be installed by the end of the month.

A Migrant's Story
The latest round of funding is in addition to the £1.4m announced earlier in July to build a new secure zone for UK-bound lorries.

Last week, Eurotunnel said it wanted the British and French governments to repay the €9.7m (£6.9m) it had invested on boosting security - and accused the authorities of "underestimating the migrant situation". The French have committed an extra 120 police officers to the area.

But Don Flynn, director of the Migrants' Rights Network, said: "It's not simply a matter of throwing more security, more fencing into the issue. There's a deep-rooted cause behind the problem."

Richard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, called for French troops to be deployed, adding that the situation was "obviously now beyond the capabilities of the French police".

Some 5,000 people, mostly from Africa and the Middle East, have set up camp around the area. From there, they often try to board trains, lorries or ferries to the UK.

Algerian Selim is one of those who tried to cross the tunnel on Tuesday, saying he wanted to work in England - a "country with a good economy" - and to see his wife and four children.

He told French TV station iTele: "The government said it's dangerous, the Channel, but me I'm going there. Two times the Channel is kicking me, I'm going more than 15 metres. But I'm still alive. But I want to go to my family."

"Imagine, I'm sleeping here in the jungle, I'm sleeping next to the bridge here and my kids every day are calling me, 'Daddy, when you coming?' I keep lying to my kids saying, I'm going for a job and maybe my boss is going to let me, tomorrow I'm coming. Every day I'm a liar, every day I'm lying. I'm trying," he added.

time to block it up ,I think.

Yes, As above. Block the tunnel up.

There coming to thier family's which are already here

So why not get them out so they wouldn't have to come here for them

Stop giving them houses and benefits and make their lives a struggle if they do get here and they'll soon stop coming,they only come cos of the handouts our government gives them

Why is a lead Mod posting this? Does my swede in on this forum, the obsession with 'immigration'.

CTID

Simply tell Europe no benefits ect ect for non UK residents! After all that's the policy in rest of Europe, that will stop 90% of them wanting to come here.

Stop giving them houses and benefits and make their lives a struggle if they do get here and they'll soon stop coming,they only come cos of the handouts our government gives them

In the main, their lives ARE a struggle when they get here, the vast majority are given just over £5 a day to survive on, and are housed in places that none of us would want to live in. Don't believe the bullshit you read in rags like the Daily Mail/ Sun etc or the crap that Britain First come up with. Although I don't in general agree with mass immigration, we'd all do exactly the same if we were in their position. And, no I don't have the answer to the problem...

Why is a lead Mod posting this? Does my swede in on this forum, the obsession with 'immigration'.

CTID

Get over it

Stop giving them houses and benefits and make their lives a struggle if they do get here and they'll soon stop coming,they only come cos of the handouts our government gives them

In the main, their lives ARE a struggle when they get here, the vast majority are given just over £5 a day to survive on, and are housed in places that none of us would want to live in. Don't believe the bullshit you read in rags like the Daily Mail/ Sun etc or the crap that Britain First come up with. Although I don't in general agree with mass immigration, we'd all do exactly the same if we were in their position. And, no I don't have the answer to the problem...

They get more here than any other part of Europe! That's why majority want come here!

Why is a lead Mod posting this? Does my swede in on this forum, the obsession with 'immigration'.

CTID

well delete your account...simples

its hard to have any sympathy for economic migrants who bypass the legal route and are making the lives of the residents of calais and truckers lives hell. if i want to go to australia for a better life i will have to jump through the hoops and pay thousands for a visa.

whats needed is to remove the motivation to come, and second, if they do manage to illegally enter the UK, send them either to the first safe country, or the last safe country they travelled through. unfortunately, in the UK no political party has the backbone to do this, so the problem will remain for years to come.

They seem to think the UK is the land of milk and honey....and I have no doubt that those soddin french bastards are telling them that. The UK is now the most overpopulated country in Europe. There is a shortage of housing for our own people. About time we started sending these immigrants back to France. If the French don't like it then tough!

Where are we going with this is it a party political bro
adcast for the national front lets re
member our south wales working class ways of caring for each other.how many actually know of any foreign scroungers i dont know any but i know of many british scroungers and we all know of the british bankers and big companies who are avoiding their taxes so lets get real we have never been fascists in south wales and never will so lets forget this nazi behaviour on a football messagboard. Rant over

Where are we going with this is it a party political bro
adcast for the national front lets re
member our south wales working class ways of caring for each other.how many actually know of any foreign scroungers i dont know any but i know of many british scroungers and we all know of the british bankers and big companies who are avoiding their taxes so lets get real we have never been fascists in south wales and never will so lets forget this nazi behaviour on a football messagboard. Rant over

The problem will never go away until world poverty is tackled. Cutting the weed is not a solution. You need to kill the root cause. Sadly, our governments have other motives and would rather they struggled in other countries and continued exploiting them to their own ends based on their geopolitical interests. This is only just the beginning.

The problem will never go away until world poverty is tackled. Cutting the weed is not a solution. You need to kill the root cause. Sadly, our governments have other motives and would rather they struggled in other countries and continued exploiting them to their own ends based on their geopolitical interests. This is only just the beginning.

Tackling the route cause is one of the solutions to this problem. One of those problems is with the criminals trafficking people to Calais. Whilst those evil t**ts should be hunted down and dealt with, I also think that EU Governments have to face up to those who are paying these people, the so called 'desperate' migrants.

I have seen reports that each individual migrant is paying a minimum of £5000 to get to Calais. Someone mention above that he would 'do the same' if he was in their shoes. Well I live in Newport and I would be astonished if I could find 1,500 individuals with a spare £5,000 in order to fund a trip to a 'new life'

We have to get away from having sympathy for these people because they clearly had means in their own country but chose to give it to criminals in order to reach the UK, whilst the real poor stay in Africa.

These migrants must be treated as accessories to criminal acts and as such should be sent straight back to Africa. The overseas aid budget should be used to fund this. We treat our own people harshly when they are caught fiddling the system so it should be only right that foreigners doing the same should face the same harsh penalties.

The problem will never go away until world poverty is tackled. Cutting the weed is not a solution. You need to kill the root cause. Sadly, our governments have other motives and would rather they struggled in other countries and continued exploiting them to their own ends based on their geopolitical interests. This is only just the beginning.

Tackling the route cause is one of the solutions to this problem. One of those problems is with the criminals trafficking people to Calais. Whilst those evil t**ts should be hunted down and dealt with, I also think that EU Governments have to face up to those who are paying these people, the so called 'desperate' migrants.

I have seen reports that each individual migrant is paying a minimum of £5000 to get to Calais. Someone mention above that he would 'do the same' if he was in their shoes. Well I live in Newport and I would be astonished if I could find 1,500 individuals with a spare £5,000 in order to fund a trip to a 'new life'

We have to get away from having sympathy for these people because they clearly had means in their own country but chose to give it to criminals in order to reach the UK, whilst the real poor stay in Africa.

These migrants must be treated as accessories to criminal acts and as such should be sent straight back to Africa. The overseas aid budget should be used to fund this. We treat our own people harshly when they are caught fiddling the system so it should be only right that foreigners doing the same should face the same harsh penalties.

Totally agree.

All got worse since some knobs decided to overthrow Libya etc etc
if it wasn't for those countries helping to decimate some north African regimes then it wouldn't be as bad, on the bright side only 36000 odd have seeked asylum in this country in past year i think compared to 5 times more in Germany even Hungary has more seeking asylum. We need to boycott the country's who have caused this to happen by getting rid of Gaddafi
oh wait we helped bomb Gaddafi

Also the 37000 who attempt to get over to uk is wrong info
its 37000 attempts not people eg a person could be.picked up trying to get into tunnel then get taken away and come back a few times during night
ive been to Calais and there's no where near that many refugees there

Gas the tunnel

Any migrant who enters the country illegally should be deported back to their homeland, not rewarded for their crimes and allowed to stay here. If that was the case we wouldn't have this problem in Calais.

They seem to think the UK is the land of milk and honey....and I have no doubt that those soddin french bastards are telling them that. The UK is now the most overpopulated country in Europe. There is a shortage of housing for our own people. About time we started sending these immigrants back to France. If the French don't like it then tough!

Exactly, they only try to pretend like their doing something by getting more security but they are happy to just pass them over here, their not concerned with any of this news.

Why don't these 'economic & political migrants' who have paid $1000's to traffickers just stay put where they are in France? It's a lovely safe country after all so what more can they possibly want? If the roles were reversed and they were camped here trying to get to France, then I imagine that we would be expected to stop these migrants entering our borders and if apprehended, simply deported. Sorry, no more room available in Hotel GB, please try somewhere else. Like France or Brussels, for instance.

They are told by the slave traders that Britain gives you free houses and food,and then the poor bastards are screwed out of what little money they have in the hope of getting here.They are proceesed by the Italians when they land in europe and then told to go wherever they want.The Arab spring is to blame for all this.If Gaddaffi still ran Lybia and Mubarrack still ran Egypt and the uprising in Syria was put down at source we wouldn't have these problems now.WE are paying for post WWII foriegn policy.Its ba nright f'kin mess and better men than me have no answer.