A man and woman are confirmed to have died after several people fell into the English Channel off the coast of Calais, with a Dungeness RNLI lifeboat sent out
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17,234 people have so far made the perilous journey across the 21-mile Dover Straits in 366 small boats this year. August alone has seen 2,501 people arrive in the UK in dinghies or other small craft.