Plans to install a CCTV network along the Channel coast to catch people-smugglers have been scaled back because Britain has failed to provide the funding it promised, French officials say.
Some of the beaches often used by migrants trying to cross the Channel will be without video surveillance.
A surge of Channel migrant crossings has been forecast as people smugglers take advantage of warmer weather and calmer seas. More than 300 migrants were estimated to have crossed the Channel in eight small boats yesterday in what would be the busiest day of crossings this year if confirmed by the Home Office.
That would take the number of arrivals this year to at least 2,500 — more than double the number at the same time last
