World News 1: ‘Horror beyond words’: how Channel distress calls were ‘ignored’ 19 times before 2021 disaster

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Investigation reveals that understaffed Dover control room was overwhelmed by calls from people in trouble before 27 died at sea• Read more: UK coastguard ‘left Channel migrants adrift’On the afternoon of 3 November 2021, a woman called Hampshire police. Her brother was crossing the Channel in a small boat that day, she said via a translator. But...

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