The group of Iranian and Iraqi nationals have been brought to shore and medically-assessed.
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English Channel
The Home Office is deploying remotely-piloted aircraft to search the English Channel.
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Forty-eight people were met by Border Force officials and 11 people were rescued by the RNLI.
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Alex Grove is in training for his channel swim planned for next summer.
Read moreMigrants picked up off Folkestone
Thirteen migrants including several children were rescued off the coast of Folkestone on Sunday.
The coastguard and Border Force were called at 09:41 GMT after reports of a small boat in the English Channel.
The occupants were brought ashore and taken to the Kent intake until where claims for asylum are processed.
A further 11 migrants including a woman were also picked up by French authorities after being found about six miles from Boulogne.
They were suffering from slight hypothermia.
The Home Office says 17 migrants have been picked up off the coast of Dover overnight.
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Samyar Ahmadi Bani was among six people on a boat intercepted off the coast of Dover.
Read moreExperts predict that marine species are moving into new habitats, partly due to climate change.
So far in 2019 nearly 1,500 people have reached the UK illegally in small boats across the English Channel
Work to deactivate the system between Maidstone and Ashford has begun, Highways England says.
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