Au revoir! Two Royal Navy ships send French fishermen scurrying back home from Jersey after one of them RAMS a British boat in fishing row - as gunboats prepare to return to port in the UK but remain on standby
Fishermen said they were ready to restage the Battle of Trafalgar as they descended on harbour this morning
David Sellam, head of the Normandy sea authority, said: We re ready for war. We can bring Jersey to its knees
But by 1.30pm navigation charts showed the armada had given in and was sailing back towards home waters
Observer said French boats blockading the harbour had returned home but were not dropping their demands
Moment French trawler rams UK boat then chases after it as tense stand-off in Channel escalates with Macron sending SECOND gunboat to meet two Royal Navy warships after EU accuses island of breaking Brexit law
HMS Severn and HMS Tamar were sent from Portsmouth as a precaution in ratcheting up of row with France
The Royal Navy ships are roaming Channel after Paris warned yesterday it could cut off electricity to Jersey
PM deployed the ships after intelligence said 100 French boats could blockade Saint Helier Thursday morning
French maritime minister yesterday accused Jersey of dragging its feet over licences for French fishing boats